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welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and every week the team and I will be bringing you an exciting mixture of discussion in the news and stories.

This week we discuss our Ed the unready cover story with Raffar Bear, who has been canvassing views about the Labour

leader from the left. While Caroline Crampton and Philip Moore debate the rights and wrongs of

3D cinema, Alex Hearn and I dissect the launch of the new Xbox and Playstations,

and our art critic slash

YouTube sub editor Tom Calvin Corese brings us news of two exhibitions at the

London Takes. I'm joined by Caroline Crampton, our web editor and Ralph Albert

our political editor to talk about the week in politics.

Raff, you first, you've written the cover story this week about Ed Miliband

and Ralph you first you've written the cover story this week about

Ed Miliband and his relationship with Labour

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