The New Statesman Centenary Debates: Did the Left win the 20th century?

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2013

⏱️ 102 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As part of the New Statesman's Centenary Debates series, on 18 April the NS held a debate with the motion "This house believes the left won the 20th century. Speaking for the motion were NS deputy editor Helen Lewis, author and columnist Simon Heffer and NS contributing writer and Huffington Post political director Mehdi Hasan. Opposing were Times comment editor Tim Montgomerie, Institute of Economic Affairs communications director Ruth Porter, and Independent columnist Owen Jones. The chair was New Statesman editor Jason Cowley.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Try royal opera house stream this Christmas for just one pound and watch enchanting productions including the nutcracker
0:07.0	enjoy unlimited access to over 80 extraordinary ballets, operas and exclusive behind-the-scenes features.
0:15.0	Sign up for Royal Opera House Stream now with your first month for just one pound.
0:19.0	For details, visit R.OH.org. UK forward slash offer.
0:23.0	One pound for the first month after 14 free days,
0:26.0	and nine 99 a month thereafter.
0:28.0	Cancel any time Ties and sees apply.
0:30.0	Attention all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.
0:41.0	So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:46.5	Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app.
0:50.9	Good evening my name is Jason Cowley I'm editor the New Statesman. New Statesman has just celebrated its
0:57.2	100th birthday on 12th of April and this is the second of our centenary debates and another sellout.
1:05.1	The motion before the House tonight is the left one, the 20th century.
1:11.2	I'll tell you who's going to be proposing the motion.
1:15.0	It is Helen Lewis, who's deputy editor of the new statesman.
1:19.1	She runs our website and is driving out traffic to record highs.
1:23.5	Helen got caught in a something called a Twitter storm
1:26.4	this week.
1:27.7	I'm not sure what that is, but something
1:29.3	over intersectionality, Helen.
1:31.7	And during the debate that raged, Helen was described as being in charge of feminism in Britain
1:38.2	Which makes it sound as if feminism is a multinational company. Perhaps it is.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The New Statesman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The New Statesman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.