Oppose and Cons
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🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea gather to discuss whether Keir Starmer turned PMQs into an effective opposition moment. Then, in You Ask Us, we turn to digital culture writer Sarah Manavis to look at the rise of eco-fascism.
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| 1:27.0 | On this week's episode, we discuss the condition of the UK's care homes |
| 1:31.0 | and how to be a good opposition. Andaman Arvis joins us to discuss the rise of ecofashes. |
| 1:37.0 | So this week we had a rare occasion in which Prime Minister's questions actually engendered |
| 1:49.1 | a news story with legs in that a question on the government's advice over care homes that |
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