The New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This week, Helen Lewis talks to Stephen Bush and Jonn Elledge about swinging polls and televised debates, and Ian Steadman and Tosin Thompson discuss a fossil discovery that alters our understanding of the origins of man.

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0:48.0	Tees and sees apply the New Statesman podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis, and this week I talk to Stephen Bush and John Elage about poll results in Scotland.
1:09.0	Then Tosing Thompson, Ian Stebblin and I, look at a fossil that's rewriting the history of human evolution.
1:14.3	There are now two months to go until the general election and I'm joined by Stephen Bush
1:24.5	our new stag as editor and John editor of Citimetric to discuss the latest politics news.
1:29.0	John, strong opinions needed. How do you feel about David Cameron's announcement that he'll only
1:35.4	do one debate, he has to have 7,000 people there, everyone he's ever met, anyone who's ever
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