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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the final New Statesman podcast of 2014.

First up I'll be reviewing the year in politics with George Eaton and a new Shecalian.

Then I'll be talking to Ian Stedman and Philip Morne about what it's really like in North Korea and why they hate films

about them so much.

Finally, Caroline Crampton I will be discussing the appointment of the first female

Bishop in the Church of England. It's time to look back at 2014, a year which our politics editor George Eaton, who joins

him in Ayr said, neither side won. We're also joined by our acting stag as editor Anushicalian.

So George, tell us first a bit about the premise of your column that you've written this week

about the year in politics.

But British politics used to move to quite a predictable rhythm where if the Tories were doing badly then labour would be doing well, if labour was doing well, then the Tories would be doing badly.

It was a kind of game of zero-sum politics. What we found out in 2014 was that both

sides could lose. So UKIP won the European elections, becoming the first party outside

of the two main ones to win a national contest since

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