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The Politics Show
Helping you make sense of politics – every week.
Anoosh Chakelian and the New Statesman team bring you sharp reporting, clear analysis and thoughtful conversations to help you understand what’s really going on in Westminster and beyond.
The New Statesman is Britain’s leading source of news and commentary on politics and culture with a progressive perspective. On The Politics Show, our journalists and expert guests cut through the noise of the headlines to explain the forces shaping our world…
Episodes
The Politics ShowNS #96: A limerick and Ali Smith
We talk about the Labour leadership race and Ali Smith's How to Be Both. Plus, a poem from a reader. (Caroline Crampton, George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian, Tom…
The Politics ShowNS #95: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
Singer and artist Amanda Palmer and her husband, novelist Neil Gaiman, talk about their guest edit of the New Statesman. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱Download the New…
The Politics ShowNS #94: Left-leaning dramatic readings
We talk the week in politics (warning: features Tristram Hunt impressions. Listen to the end for a special Easter Egg! (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George…
The Politics ShowNS #93: What does the SNP want?
The changing political scene in Scotland, discussed by NS editor Jason Cowley and writer Gerry Hassan. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱Download the New Statesman app MORE…
The Politics ShowNS #92: Labour leaders and witty women
We discuss the Labour leadership campaign and the rise and rise of women in comedy. Featuring Helen Lewis, George Eaton, Stephen Bush, Barbara Speed and Anna…
The Politics ShowNS #91: The election post-mortem
After the election: the post-mortem. We discuss the results, and look to the future - considering the Labour leadership candidates. (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush…
The Politics ShowNS #90: The eve of the election
On the day before the 2015 general election, we talk Scotland (Gerry Hassan, Jason Cowley) and the final polls (George Eaton, Stephen Bush). Hosted by Helen…
The Politics ShowNS #89: Swing seats and what women want
This week, Helen Lewis talks to NS editor Jason Cowley and political editor George Eaton about marginal constituencies and the magazine's endorsement of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty-Eight
This week, Helen Lewis asks Jason Cowley and George Eaton if the SNP are as scary as the Tories say they are, and Stephen Bush and Harry Lambert talk…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty-Seven
This week, Helen Lewis talks to Stephen Bush about the political landscape in Wales, and Jonn Elledge explains why the Tories's Right to Buy scheme spells…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty-Six
Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Stephen Bush discuss an exciting week in politics, from yet more televised debates to those pesky non-doms. LISTEN AD-FREE…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Eighty-Five
This week, Helen Lewis talks to editor Jason Cowley and George Eaton about Labour's approach to business, Harry Lambert and Stephen Bush talk polls, and Ian…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Eighty-Four
In this special edition of the New Statesman podcast, New Statesman editor Jason Cowley speaks to George Eaton and philosopher and contributor John Gray on the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty-Three
Helen Lewis speaks to Anoosh Chakelian, Stephen Bush and Ashley Cowburn about the week in politics and the end of term. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱Download the New…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty-Two
Cost-neutral rabbits alive! It's a special episode of the podcast this week as we get nerdy about all things #Budget2015. Helen Lewis, Anoosh Chakelian and…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty-One
This week, Anoosh Chakelian speaks to George Eaton and Stephen Bush about Ed Balls, while Helen Lewis, Stephanie Boland and Jonn Elledge get angry about the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast | Episode Eighty
This week, Helen Lewis talks to Stephen Bush and Jonn Elledge about swinging polls and televised debates, and Ian Steadman and Tosin Thompson discuss a fossil…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Nine
This week, George Eaton and Stephen Bush ask if it's too soon to write off Ukip, Ian Steadman tells you everything you need to know about dwarf planet Ceres…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Eight
This week, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian talk about Labour's plans for the railways and the Tories' plans for welfare, Ian Steadman and Tosin Thompson…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Seven
This week, Barbara Speed and Caroline Crampton ask, is Labour's pink bus really that patronising? Plus, George Eaton and Ashley Cowburn discuss the rise of the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast" Episode Seventy-Six
This week, Harry Lambert and George Eaton debate the implications of the Ashcroft poll, Ian Steadman and Barbara Speed discuss the measles outbreak in America…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Five
This week, George Eaton and Stephen Bush find it's been another bad week for Labour, Caroline Crampton and Jonn Elledge talk girls and Ghostbusters, and…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Four
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian discuss Labour's hopes for young voters, Ian Steadman explains the significance of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Three
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Jonn Elledge discuss the televised election debates, New Statesman editor Jason Cowley and Xan Rice talk…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Two
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian break down the first week of the general election campaign, Ian Steadman discusses a…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-One
On this week's New Statesman podcast: George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian and Helen Lewis review the year in politics, the year that nobody "won", Ian Steadman and…
The Politics ShowPodcast Special: Neil Gaiman talks to Index on Censorship
Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has a long affiliation with cartoonists, and illustrators, and a history of fighting for them, partly because he spent 12 years on…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy
On this week's New Statesman podcast: George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian and Helen Lewis discuss the fallout from the Autumn Statement (and the ugly cuts that will…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Nine
On this week's New Statesman podcast: Harry Lambert, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian discuss Ed Miliband on the attack ahead of next year's general election…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Eight
On this week's New Statesman podcast: Jason Cowley and Helen Lewis ask what Ed Miliband needs to do next, Philip Maughan talks to Goldsmiths Prize-winner Ali…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Seven
On this week's New Statesman podcast: Scottish Labour in meltdown, Shiraz Maher explains how he befriended young British Muslims fighting for Isis in the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Six
On this week's New Statesman Podcast: BIG NEWS For the first time wind power has exceeded nuclear power usage in the UK, though of course, there's more to it…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Five
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Caroline Crampton discuss the troubles facing Labour, and whether the Greens really are…
The Politics ShowGrayson Perry in conversation with Miranda Sawyer
Artist and New Statesman guest-editor Grayson Perry talks to critic Miranda Sawyer at the Royal Institution, London, on 13 October 2014. They discuss the idea…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Four
On this week's New Statesman Podcast: as the hangover from the party conference season kicks in, our politics team look forward to the results of two upcoming…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Three
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…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-Two
Party conference special: On this week's New Statesman podcast, Caroline Crampton, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian reflect on a disappointing Labour Party…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty-One
After the referendum: George Eaton reports from Edinburgh with reactions to the No victory in the Scottish independence vote, Helen Lewis, Jonn Elledge and…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixty
On this week's podcast: New Statesman editor Jason Cowley talks to Scottish writer, academic and independence-supporter Gerry Hassan, Helen Lewis, George Eaton…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Nine
MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL: On this week's New Statesman podcast, John Bew, Shiraz Maher, Jason Cowley and Sophie McBain discuss the roots of radicalisation in…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Eight
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton, Anoosh Chekelian and Helen Lewis ask how David Cameron will respond to former Tory MP Douglas Carswell's…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Seven
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Jonn Elledge assess a strong summer for Labour, Ian Steadman and Juliet Jacques rejoice at the start of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Six
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the week's politics, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti and artist…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast Extra: Mary Beard, Laurie Penny and Helen Lewis on outspoken women
The full audio from the New Statesman's sell-out event with Mary Beard, Laurie Penny and Helen Lewis at Conway Hall on 30 July 2014. The speakers address the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Five
On this week's New Statesman podcast: as parliament rises for recess, George Eaton and Helen Lewis review the year in politics, Sophie McBain tells Kate…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Four
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Lucy Fisher consider the fallout from the Conservative Party reshuffle, and ask what Labour…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Cabinet Re-Shuffle Special
A special edition of the NS podcast to discuss the Conservative shuffle-kerfuffle, featuring Helen Lewis, Caroline Crampton, and Anoosh Chakelian. LISTEN…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Three
Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Lucy Fisher discuss the Conservative Party's lady troubles, Mark Lawson tells Kate Mossman why he found the Monty Python reunion…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Two
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton, Helen Lewis and Jonn Elledge ask whether Ed Miliband is better off being a radical, Robin Ince explains why…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-One
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Caroline Crampton, Jonn Elledge and Lucy Fisher talk about the problems facing the Tory party at home and abroad, Ajit…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Jonn Elledge discuss Labour plans to restrict benefits to the under-22s; Ian Steadman and Ajit Niranjan…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Nine
On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Lucy Fisher talk to Caroline Crampton about Labour's need to engage the blue-collar vote, NS editor…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Eight
On this week's New Statesman podcast Helen Lewis, George Eaton, Tim Wigmore and Lucy Fisher discuss the fall of the BNP, Lib Dems in turmoil and the results of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Seven
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Helen Lewis, Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss the European elections and the Ukip bubble, Ian Steadman unpicks a new…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Six
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Rafael Behr, Helen Lewis and George Eaton discuss two disastrous new polls for the Labour Party, Ian Steadman explains…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Five
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Rafael Behr, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the prospects for Newark's by-election, sound artist Aleks…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Four
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Caroline Crampton talks to George Eaton and Rafael Behr about Labour's plans for the rental housing market, Sophie McBain…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Three
Rafael Behr, Helen Lewis and George Eaton discuss a rather lacklustre week in politics, tragedy strikes on Mount Everest and Sophie McBain asks - why are we…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Two
Helen Lewis, Laurie Penny and Caroline Crampton discuss the politics of the BBC zombie drama In The Flesh, Mark Haddon tells Tom Gatti why he's not just "a…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-One
George Eaton and Helen Lewis file an end of term report card for the parties in Westminster, and discuss the fallout from Maria Miller's resignation, Michael…