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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Three

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman podcast: our team return from the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, where they found the party in an oddly buoyant mood despite being four points behind in the polls. Ian Steadman explains the massive change in copyright law that took place this week and Caroline Crampton explains the concept behind the final work of the British composer John Tavener.

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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Hello and this week I'll be talking to a new statesman podcast. I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I'll be talking to a new

1:04.3

Shaqualian and George Eaton about the surprisingly upbeat mood at Tory Party

1:08.0

conference. In Stedman and I will be tackling the new ways that copyright law is

1:11.9

being enforced on the internet, and Philip

1:13.8

Morm will talk to Caroline Crampton about the last work of the late composer John Taverner. Well, we've nearly made it to the end of conference season, only Lib Dems to go, and I'm joined

1:36.9

by George Eaton, our political editor and Anush Cayley in the acting editor of Staggers,

1:40.5

who've just returned from Birmingham where the Tories held their conference.

1:43.2

George you've written in your column this week that David Cameron was quite chipper in fact

1:47.4

the whole Tory party conference were quite chipper.

1:50.8

When they're four points behind it in the polls, why are they so happy?

1:54.0

They were happy partly because of how badly labor went.

1:58.0

That confirmed their belief that they're in better shape than the opposition, that they deserve to win the election,

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