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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast. This week I talked to

Raphael Bear and George Eaton about the upcoming conference season.

Alex Hearn interviews comics writer Kiran Gillen and then Alex and I

talk about Wikipedia Wars and Chelsea Manning.

I'm joined by a political editor Raff I'll Bear and George Eaton editor of the Staggars to talk about the week in politics

So first up Raff you wrote your column this week about the kind of idea that the landscape hasn't really changed. This isn't a kind of

apockel moment where everything has been disordered by the vote over Syria. What gave you that impression?

Well, largely, one thing I've sort of pegged up over the last few years in politics is that when people say

that the status quo is not an option, then it normally is.

When people say everything has changed, quite often very little has changed.

But the main thing was but the day after the votes there was a there were a

lot of people saying you know this is a legislature asserting itself over the

executive it's a great moment for Parliament, a very dramatic statement.

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