The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Four

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🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this week's New Statesman Podcast: as the hangover from the party conference season kicks in, our politics team look forward to the results of two upcoming by-elections, Elizabeth Minkel and Ian Steadman discuss the pros and cons of becoming involved with a massive online community, while writer Damian Barr discusses sexuality, masculinity and the concept of the Great White Male.

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1:14.4	side-elections. Then I talked to Elizabeth Minkle and Ian Stedman
1:13.8	about two sides of online communities,
1:16.1	fandom and trolling. And finally, our literary editor Tom Gatti
1:19.7	talks to Damien Barr about macho masculinity and Grayson Perry's guest edit. Finally it's over.
1:35.0	conference season 2014 is at a close with Nick Clegg's
1:38.5	speech finishing the Libdom conference.
1:40.5	We're now all set for two by-elections, one in Hayward and Middleton, which looks to be a comfortable
1:44.5	Labour hold, and one in Clacton where UKIP is set to take their first MP seat.
1:48.9	I'm joined by a political editor George Eaton, an editor of the Stagers in New Shecalian to talk about what's been a pretty seismic month in politics starting off with the Scottish referendum.
1:58.0	George, how has conferences in shape the political landscape?
2:02.0	Well I think the biggest winners were... conferences and shape the political landscape?
2:03.0	I think the biggest winners were UKIP.
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