Theresa May vs Parliament
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush briefs Helen Lewis on the Brexit developments during her absence, before Helen speaks to comedian Andy Zaltzman about his new show Satirist for Hire. Then, it's The Back Half, where Tom Gatti and Kate Mossman are reviewing Childish Gambino's live show and looking at the 'nonniversary' of the Will Ferrell film Blades of Glory.
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:32.8 | We've got a fun-filled action-packed episode this week in which we talk about Brexit |
| 1:37.6 | And in the back half Kate and Tom talk about childish Gambino. |
| 1:41.6 | And then Helen and Andy's ultimate talk about satire. |
| 1:45.0 | Hello Stephen I'm delighted to be back. I'm less delighted about the fact that Brexit |
| 1:56.4 | is still happening. I was slightly hoping you might have, I mean not you personally, |
| 1:59.7 | but someone might have fixed that while I was away. What are the big headlines that I have missed? |
| 2:05.0 | So the big headlines are that MPs have given themselves more opportunities to say what it is they don't want. |
| 2:12.0 | There is now a kind of fairly reliable |
| 2:15.6 | majority to kind of go we don't want this right? Where this is what? The |
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