The New Statesman Podcast

You Ask Us: The big Labour reshuffle, promotions and demotions

Angela Rayner up, Lisa Nandy down - what’s motivated the moves in Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet...

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The trappings of Western hyper-liberalism | Conversation

Can liberalism survive the horrors of our modern world? Will Lloyd is joined by John Gray...

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Summer of Light: a new short story by Jonathan Coe | Audio Long Read

In the summer of 1924, a highly regarded painter falls – or is he pushed? – into the canal while...

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You Ask Us: if you're a centrist politician, how do you choose one party over another?

Rory Stewart, Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell: a listener writes in to ask why centrist politicians...

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Ben Wallace and Nadine Dorries, the long goodbye

“History will not remember you kindly” Nadine Dorries’ wrote this weekend in her resignation...

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Escaping Eden: life after the Plymouth Brethren | Audio Long Reads

For those who leave the ultra-conservative Christian sect, separation comes at great personal...

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You Ask Us: will Labour stop the culture wars, and does the government control what journalists report?

The Conservatives seem intent on fighting the next election on "culture wars" issues. A listener...

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Have Conservatives forgotten education?

GCSE and A Level results are out, and the proportion of top grades have dipped since the pandemic...

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Russia’s war on the future | Conversation

After spending several days reporting in Pokrovsk, a small city in eastern Ukraine and the recent...

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In defence of counterfactual history

What if the rush to war in 1914 had been averted? What if the Berlin Crisis of 1961 had led to...

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You Ask Us: Should it be easier to recall MPs, and how do Rishi Sunak and John Major compare?

Various MPs, including Nadine Dorries, have been accused of not doing their jobs. Should there be...

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Labour’s caution could turn to radicalism in office

Would Labour be radical in office? Freddie Hayward spoke to party insiders to find out – he...

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Where do Labour and the Tories differ on growth? With Bridget Phillipson and Bim Afolami | Conversation

Two visions for how Britain can increase productivity and boost growth. Freddie Hayward...

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What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss, by Ali Smith

The novelist Ali Smith first came across the work of Simone de Beauvoir in an Inverness bookshop,...

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You Ask Us: Is Starmer haunted by Blair, and how do you raise voter turnout?

Labour’s dominance in the polls draws obvious comparisons with 1997-era New Labour. But is it...

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Rishi Sunak's asylum policy is all at sea

The first residents have boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge moored off the coast of Dorset. Anoosh...

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The Trump trial and the internet conspiracy infecting the world | Conversation

An internet hoax conceived on a fringe message board grew into an online conspiracy theory so...

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George Monbiot: how I escape climate despair | Audio Long Read

There is one question the environmental journalist and author George Monbiot is asked more than...

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You Ask Us: Is a new party possible, and has Andy Burnham avoided policing scandal?

Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker answer listener questions. There have been...

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Rutherglen by-election: Labour’s key to unlock Scotland?

Yet another by-election could provide a key opportunity for Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour to...

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