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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and this is the New Statesman podcast.

I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week we're looking forward to the

results of the European and local elections with Raphael Bear and George Eaton.

In Stedman and I discuss whether there are any scientific differences between the races,

and Yosushi joins us to talk about Bob Dylan and fandom. I'm joined by a political editor Raphael Bear and George Eaton editor of The Staggers to talk

about elections.

We're recording this on Thursday, which is obviously polling day, but you'll be hearing

it before we've heard the results of the European

elections, which I think it's fair to say are probably considered to be the big ones here.

So let's talk in a slightly more broader view.

Raff, you've written an essay this week about the kind of the broader rise of

UKIP and what that says about UK politics. Yes, the question I tried to answer is

ultimately whether or not the UKIP bubble will burst and obviously that that's sort of premised on the idea that it is a bubble, I think to a large extent it is,

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