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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast I'm Caroline Crampton the New Statesman's web editor and every week the team and I bring you an exciting mix of interviews discussion and analysis

this week our political editor Raphael Bear and I discuss fracking, the Tory's demographic problems and

Labour's summer snooze. Philip Morn and Alex Hearn talk about online bullying and the social network

Ask F. M. And we interview Kiran Gillen, author of Marvel's young Avengers and many other comics.

I'm joined by our political editor Raphael Bear who's going to take us through some of the

politics that's been happening recently. Now Ralph you wrote your column this

week in the magazine about fracking this sort of fracking protest that's going on.

Yes I actually went down you say we talk about some of the politics that's been going on part of the problem

is it hasn't actually been a lot of the going on because it's it's it's it's

August so I went down to Balcombe in West Sussex which is the

village where a site has been identified as as potentially lucrative for fracking

fracking being the business of pumping

watering chemicals deep underground to smash open layers of rock and thereby

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