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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS #230: Apocalypse Now?

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🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Stephen contemplate the escalation of hostilities between the United States and North Korea from the podcast bunker, and analyse why Venezuela causes such problems for British left. Then, in a new segment, they go head to head to determine which is the best Nineties sitcom: Frasier or The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

Follow Helen on Twitter @helenlewis and Stephen @stephenkb.

Further reading: Helen on Labour and prisons. Stephen on the left and Venezuela. Helen on Frasier. Stephen on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. It doesn't matter how neatly you

0:22.1

pack them away.

0:23.0

Christmas lights will always be tangled.

0:26.0

And a Christmas light tangle is more than a tangle.

0:28.8

It's a tangle that somehow gets more entangled

0:31.1

the more you attempt to untangle it.

0:33.0

So, to the loft I go.

0:35.0

With just my Christmasy coffee for company.

0:38.0

And if I'm not back by New Year, Merry Christmas.

0:41.0

Our roasted hazel latte is now at Costa.

0:44.0

That's Christmas.

0:45.0

But Costa coffee made a little better. Hello I'm Stephen. And I'm Helen. On this week's news station podcast, we talk about the

1:05.9

row between the Conservatives and Corgin over Venezuela. And we ask, which is the better 90 sitcom,

1:10.8

the Fresh Prince of Bel Air or Frasier.

1:13.0

Hello and welcome to perhaps the last ever New Statesman podcast.

1:24.6

We are happily in our New Statesman bunker.

1:26.9

Sadly it's not as bunkery as I would like.

1:29.3

There's a window, there's clearly a draft.

1:31.8

But we've got India who I think would be very useful in a post-apocalyptic situation because she knows a lot about farming.

1:37.0

Let's talk about Donald Trump's kind of escalation of hostilities.

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