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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast.

I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week I talk to Stephen Bush and John Elage about

Tube Strikes and capitalism and then we reconvene with the new Shekalian joining us to talk about

the latest on the labor leadership. Well you're very lucky to be able to listen to the New States from

podcast today because London is in the grip of a tube strike. I'm joined

by John Elage editor of City Metric and Stephen Stephen Bush, our stag as editor, to talk about, well,

the tubes and capitalism, really. Stephen, first of all, you wrote a piece saying, if you don't

understand the tubes right, you don't understand capitalism why is that the thing

is basically you have a group of people who have a monopoly who are therefore

behaving in a selfish way to maintain their monopoly and get as much money out of their monopoly as possible,

which is the theory of the profit motive.

That is how it works.

Some people then seem to go, although this this isn't capitalism and they go, no,

what you mean this isn't a free market, but capitalism doesn't trend towards a free market.

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