The Politics Show

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 New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: ❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday ⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning ✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

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 writing about suicide, Daniel Trilling talks about the continued effects of austerity on Greece, and Alex and Helen discuss Kickstarter. Also Helen calls everyone "Jeffrey". LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW STA...

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 debate the merits of 3D cinema, our art critic Tom Calvocoressi dissects two new exhibitions at the Tates in London and Alex Hern and Helen Lewis talk about the new Xbox launch. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE N...

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 Philip Maughan talk about the different problems of spoilers in TV, films and videogames. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: ❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday ⏰ Get our daily politics...

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 London, we discuss Robert Macfarlane's "Holloway" and the problems with the "new" nature writing and Alex Hern explains the saga of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's Zenith. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW S...

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 most important issues facing modern feminism, Sophie Elmhirst and Philip Maughan talk about the return of American novelist James Salter, and Alex Hern explains all you need to know about Tumblr and Yahoo. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download th...

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 feature on the politics of fatness, and resident young person Alex Hern says "space" a lot. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: ❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday ⏰ Get our daily politics n...

Featuring George Eaton and Rafael Behr discussing the future of the Liberal Democrats, Sophie Elmhirst speaking to Daniel Dorling about social mobility, Laurie Penny's visit to Iceland to meet the Pirate Party and Jonathan Derbyshire talking books for the last time. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: ❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday ⏰ Get...

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 and George Eaton talk to Helen Lewis about the upcoming local elections. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: ❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday ⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter ever...

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 about America from Nicky Woolf, and follow up on the role that Reddit played in the hunt for the Boston bombers. LISTEN AD-FREE: 📱 Download the New Statesman app MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: ❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday...

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. Speaking for the motion were NS deputy editor Helen Lewis, author and columnist Simon Heffer and NS contributing writer and Huffington Post political director Mehdi Hasan. Opposing were Times comment editor Tim Montgomerie, Institute of Econo...

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 Maughan and Jonathan Derbyshire take a trip into the magazine's archives, Daniel Trilling, Yiannis Baboulias and Laurie Penny talk about the reaction to austerity in Europe, Will Self makes the case for a pessimistic world view, Helen Lewis and So...

What is the most important issue facing feminism today? New Statesman writers Helen Lewis, Laurie Penny, Bim Adewunmi, Juliet Jacques, Victoria Smith, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter came together at Conway Hall in London on 4 April 2013 to debate it. Chaired by New Statesman web editor Caroline Crampton, the debate and the audience question session is here in full for podcast listeners to...

The first ever episode of the New Statesman podcast, featuring political analysis, cultural reviews, interviews and more. In our first audio outing, George Eaton talks about Iain Duncan Smith and welfare cuts, Rafael Behr stares into the dark heart of the Conservative Party, Alex Hern talks to the Guardian's Aditya Chakrabortty about the future of the internet, Jonathan Derbyshire and Philip Maugh...