Trump’s “demented” Easter and fragile ceasefire | Will and Anoosh's weekly round up
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s "demented" Easter announcement, Britain’s squeezed middle and getting “the ick” for Zack Polanski…
Anoosh Chakelian and Will Dunn round up the stories of the week.
READ: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-sketch/2026/04/the-trumps-wish-the-world-a-very-demented-easter
https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/economy-international-politics/2026/04/britains-vanishing-middle-class
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Anusha Kellyan and you're listening to Politics from the New Statesman |
| 0:08.9 | and I'm here with my colleague Will Dun for our regular weekly roundup. Hi Will. |
| 0:12.9 | Hello. |
| 0:13.6 | Our first category this week is dire straits of the week. |
| 0:17.5 | We're starting with everyone's favourite straight. |
| 0:19.7 | Everyone pretends that they already |
| 0:20.9 | knew what this straight was. Yeah. The straight of Hormuz. We all know now, don't we? We all know. |
| 0:25.7 | We all too well. But at the time of recording, as a result of some masterful ground strategy from |
| 0:32.9 | Donald Trump, has now, since the ceasefire, allowed at least nine ships to cross. Before the war, |
| 0:39.4 | there were around 128 ships passing through it each day. As George W. Bush would say, |
| 0:45.2 | mission accomplished. But in your sketch this week, Will, you have written about the kind of |
| 0:50.9 | bizarre hysteria from Trump that led up to this ceasefire. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.6 | Which started with a speech alongside the Easter Bunny. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.6 | What did he say? |
| 1:00.6 | I mean, Donald Trump creates some pretty odd scenes. |
| 1:07.2 | As George W. Bush said after Trump's leaving speech at the end of his first term in office, |
| 1:16.9 | George W. Bush memorably said, that was some weird shit, which applied to Trump's speech, |
| 1:23.9 | but also all of the preceding four years but this was a really odd scene so you |
| 1:30.6 | had Donald and Melania Trump stood on a balcony of the White House overlooking the |
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