A Government of National Delusion
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🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian and Stephen Bush are talking about how the preposterous idea of a government of national unity became part of mainstream political discourse. Then, in You Ask Us, they consider whether we're prepared for no deal and, finally, Anoosh is joined by Emily Bootle to discuss whether comedy panel shows have run their course.
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| 0:33.2 | It's here at last folks. |
| 0:34.8 | It's a sumptuous, wild fantastical depiction of the life of Napoleon. |
| 0:40.0 | This genius commander who won victories from Portugal to the pyramids and the gates of Moscow. |
| 0:46.3 | The movie tracks the kind of relentless journey of Napoleon Bonaparte to the pinnacle of power. |
| 0:51.7 | Through the prism of his addictives his volatile relationship with his one true love Josephine |
| 0:56.7 | You get the politics you get the romance |
| 0:59.5 | But against the backdrop of some of the most extraordinary battle sequences I've ever seen film. |
| 1:04.7 | This movie is an event. |
| 1:06.3 | You're going to want to see it on the biggest screen possible. |
| 1:09.1 | Book tickets to see Napoleon in Cinemas and IMAX now. Hello and welcome to the new statesman podcast this week Stephen and I discuss the |
| 1:35.8 | prospect of a government of national unity you ask us how no deal Brexit will |
| 1:40.3 | affect our everyday lives and I speak to Emily Boodle about whether the comedy panel show has had its day. |
| 1:51.0 | So welcome back from Croatia. |
| 1:53.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:54.0 | While you were gone, a particularly silly bout of someone's stories has hit Westminster. |
| 2:00.0 | There is a new plan in heavy inverted commas around the word plan and indeed around the word new to stop an O deal Brexit which is to form a caretaker government. |
| 2:10.0 | That's the phrase Jeremy Corbyn prefers, an emergency government, that's the phrase |
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