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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 ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty
On this week's podcast, Alex Clark talks to Man Booker-winner Eleanor Catton about the New Zealand gold fields and her prize-winning novel The Luminaries…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Nine
On this week's podcast: Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Rafael Behr discuss the fallout from the 2014 Budget, Kate Mossman talks to Jude Rogers about her recent…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Eight
On this week's podcast: Helen Lewis, Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss Labour, the EU and the George Osborne's upcoming Budget, Erica Wagner talks to Tom…
The Politics ShowAlex Salmond's New Statesman lecture: "Scotland's Future in Scotland's Hands"
On 4 March, Alex Salmond came to Westminster to deliver a New Statesman lecture putting forward his case for Scottish independence. Listen to the full audio of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast Extra: Rafael Behr interviews Ivan Lewis
NS political editor Rafael Behr spoke to shadow Northern Ireland minster Ivan Lewis - listen to the full interview here. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱Download the New…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Seven
Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss the Scottish independence referendum and the situation in Crimea, Helen Lewis and Ed Smith talk about the rowdy nature of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Six
On this week's podcast Rafael Behr, Helen Lewis and George Eaton talk Wythenshawe and leadership prospects, Ian Steadman asks why nobody is stating the obvious…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Five
Rafael Behr, George Eaton and Caroline Crampton assess David Cameron's future as leader of the Conservatives, Kate Mossman tells Philip Maughan why Taylor…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Four
On this week's podcast David and George Kynaston talk to NS editor Jason Cowley about Britain's 7 per cent problem: the dominance of the privately-educated in…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Three
Rafael Behr, Helen Lewis and George Eaton discuss the progress of London's Crossrail project and the possibility of a gradual re-nationalisation of the train…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-Two
Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Rafael Behr discuss Labour's drive to be the party of the middle class, Philip Maughan talks to New Statesman film critic Ryan…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty-One
Helen Lewis and George Eaton talk about Ed Balls and Labour's fortunes, Rafael Behr interviews Ryan Shorthouse of Bright Blue about Tory modernisation, and Ian…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirty
Rafael Behr, Helen Lewis and George Eaton discuss the year in politics, and make predictions for 2014, while Sean Anderson and Ian Steadman consider the year's…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Nine
Helen Lewis, Rafael Behr and George Eaton talk about housing and the London mayoral race, Philip Maughan and Michael Prodger round up the real books of 2013…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Eight
A special northern-themed episode of the podcast. George Eaton and Rafael Behr ask - who speaks for the north? Stuart Maconie explains how (not) to write about…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Seven
Is Labour winning the battle of ideas? Rafael Behr, George Eaton, and Helen Lewis discuss Labour's prospects and the rumbling debate about welfare; we dissect…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Six
We discuss the Conservative Party's attempt to erase their pre-2010 speeches from the internet; Caroline Crampton interviews Adam Price, writer of Danish…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Five
Rafael Behr, George Eaton and Helen Lewis discuss why Iain Duncan Smith is still a government minister despite the trouble many of his flagship welfare reforms…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Four
George Eaton, Caroline Crampton and Helen Lewis discuss the week in politics; Rachel Cooke talks about her book uncovering the amazing career women of the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Three
Russell Brand introduces his guest-edited issue of the magazine; Rafael Behr, George Eaton and Helen Lewis discuss the week in politics; and Ian Steadman tells…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-Two
Rafael Behr and George Eaton talk about political polls, Labour and the teachers' strike; Caroline Crampton interviews the founder of mediadiversityuk.com…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty-One
On this week's podcast: our crack team of political writers consider the week in politics, science writer Michael Brooks tells us about the greatest science…
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The New Statesman podcast is moving to a new location - you can now find us on Audioboo. Your iTunes feed should update automatically, but if not, visit…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twenty
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss Ed Miliband's fortunes at Labour conference as well as looking forward to the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Nineteen
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss the upcoming Labour conference, Philip Maughan and Kate Mossman talk about Elton…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Eighteen
Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Rafael Behr discuss the week in politics, including the fortunes of the Lib Dems and the New Statesman's interviews with Tim…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventeen
On this week's podcast Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss the fallout from the Syria vote and wax political with predictions and opinion ahead of the party…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Sixteen
Helen Lewis, Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss the upcoming Labour reshuffle, Philip Maughan talks with Kate Mossman about aging Tory metalheads Iron…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifteen
Caroline Crampton and Rafael Behr discuss fracking and the Tory's demographic problem, Alex Hern talks with Kieron Gillen about his comic work, and we assess…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fourteen
George Eaton, Rafael Behr and Helen Lewis discuss the week in politics, our Arts Editor and pop critic Kate Mossman talks Philip Maughan about Spotify, and…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Thirteen
This week, George Eaton, who edits our politics blog The Staggers, talks to the Conservative campaigner David Skelton, Caroline Crampton grills NS science…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twelve
This week, we discuss reshuffle rumours with Rafael Behr and George Eaton, NS bloggers Alan White and Kate Belgrave talk about their investigation into the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Twelve
In this week's podcast, Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Rafael Behr discuss Labour's woes in the wake of the Falkirk selection scandal, Caroline Crampton and…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Eleven
In a special episode of the New Statesman podcast, Helen Lewis discusses the Spending Round with George Eaton and Rafael Behr. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱Download the…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Ten
In this week's podcast, the New Statesman's crack politics squad examine the spending review, guests Willard Foxton and Rebecca Wait explore the ethics of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Nine
On the podcast this week, we discuss our "Ed the Unready" cover story and the Labour Party's readiness to rule in 2015, Philip Maughan and Caroline Crampton…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Eight
This week, we discuss Labour’s big week, George Eaton interviews the political scientist Ian Bremmer about his G-Zero magazine cover story and Alex Hern and…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seven
On this week's half-term edition of the New Statesman podcast Sophie Elmhirst talks to George Pitcher about the new Power Christians at work in the City of…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Six
In this week's podcast George Eaton and Rafel Behr talk about the failure of David Cameron's modernisation project, Holly Baxter (from the Vagenda) talks about…
The Politics ShowNew Statesman podcast: Episode Five
Rafael Behr, George Eaton and the Spectator's Isabel Hardman talk about the future of the Tory party, Helen Lewis and Felicity Cloake discuss this week's…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman podcast: Episode Four
Featuring George Eaton and Rafael Behr discussing the future of the Liberal Democrats, Sophie Elmhirst speaking to Daniel Dorling about social mobility, Laurie…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Local Elections Special
Will Ukip break through? Can Labour stay on course? Are the Lib Dems going to be annihilated? In this special episode, NS political correspondents Rafael Behr…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Three
In this episode, we discuss our Len McCluskey interview, ask whether tattoos will ever hang in the Louvre, look at spring books with Jonathan Derbyshire, hear…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Centenary Debates: Did the Left win the 20th century?
As part of the New Statesman's Centenary Debates series, on 18 April the NS held a debate with the motion "This house believes the left won the 20th century…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode Two - The Centenary Special
In a special bumper hour-long episode, we celebrate a hundred years of the New Statesman. Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss Thatcher's legacy, Philip…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Feminism Debate
What is the most important issue facing feminism today? New Statesman writers Helen Lewis, Laurie Penny, Bim Adewunmi, Juliet Jacques, Victoria Smith, Rhiannon…
The Politics ShowThe New Statesman Podcast: Episode One
The first ever episode of the New Statesman podcast, featuring political analysis, cultural reviews, interviews and more. In our first audio outing, George…