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🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen discuss the ongoing fallout from the Budget, a new play about women's football, and answer a pressing question: was Waitrose right to get rid of their magazine editor after an ill-judged joke about vegans?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. |
| 0:20.0 | Check the Uber app. 2023 has been the deadliest year for natural disasters since 2010, with over 75,000 deaths, predominantly from earthquakes and floods. |
| 0:33.0 | That's according to the 2023 Q3 Global Catastrophe Recap report |
| 0:38.0 | from Global Professional Services firm Aeon, which is sponsoring the New Statesman Podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | These disasters also have a huge economic impact. |
| 0:46.7 | While global insured losses from natural disaster events had reached 88 billion by the close |
| 0:52.1 | of the third quarter, economic losses totaled 295 billion, |
| 0:57.3 | highlighting a considerable protection gap. Aeon provides advice and solutions to businesses in over 120 countries to help them navigate |
| 1:06.4 | volatility, enhance resilience and make better decisions. |
| 1:10.6 | You can access its research and reporting at AON.com. |
| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Oh, I'm Stephen. And I'm Helen. Now on this week's news day from the podcast. We upside everybody with our thoughts about food. We hopefully we're |
| 1:34.0 | everyone back with our thoughts on football. And we talk about the 40P rate and |
| 1:38.3 | labor's tax forago. go. |
| 1:48.0 | Stephen, the budget. I know we have done one budget I know we have done one budget |
| 1:51.0 | podcast already and it was good good I enjoyed it very much but I think |
| 1:55.1 | we just talked a little bit there about labors support for the tax cuts the |
| 1:59.8 | moving of the |
| 2:05.0 | moving of the threshold raised to 12,000 and a half thousand pounds, |
| 2:06.0 | that's the rate which you start paying the higher rate |
| 2:08.0 | threshold to 50,000 pounds, which were both conservative |
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