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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Six

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2013

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast George Eaton and Rafel Behr talk about the failure of David Cameron's modernisation project, Holly Baxter (from the Vagenda) talks about the most important issues facing modern feminism, Sophie Elmhirst and Philip Maughan talk about the return of American novelist James Salter, and Alex Hern explains all you need to know about Tumblr and Yahoo.

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1:13.0

This week we've discussed the ongoing problems of the Tory party,

1:16.0

talk feminism with Holly Baxter of the agenda,

1:19.0

Sophie Elmerse and Philip Morne discussed the new novel from James Salter

1:22.0

and Alex Hearn explains for those who don't know what's going on with Tumblr and Yahoo. I'm joined by our political editor Raff Albert and the editor of the Staggos George Eaton

1:37.0

to talk a little bit about what's been happening with the Tory party in the last week.

1:41.0

Raff you've got a piece in this week's magazine arguing that

1:45.0

David Cameron was the future once and can't be again.

1:48.0

Certainly that it will be yeah difficult for him to be it again I think think the subject that I was trying to get into is this tricky question of why it is that Tori's hate Cameron so much. I mean it's interesting that it's not that I mean a lot of them are

2:04.3

sort of anxious they think they're not going to win the election but they're small

2:08.8

hardcore of them they really passionately hate him I mean it's quite extraordinary and then also there are quite a lot of

2:15.2

conservative voters who are defecting to UKIP. They also hate him and what is it

2:19.8

what is this treason that they feel that he's committed.

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