An Uncivil Disservice
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the resignation of Kim Darroch, the UK's ambassador to the US, and what it means for civil servants' trust in their political colleagues. Then, in You Ask Us, they look at Labour's new Brexit policy and, finally, consider how social care funding has hit the agenda in the Tory leadership race.
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| 0:26.7 | epic film Napoleon, starring Wackeem Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby in cinemas now. |
| 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 I'm Anush and on this week's news |
| 1:33.9 | and we discuss the resignation of the UK Ambassador to the US. |
| 1:38.2 | You ask us what is Labour's Brexit policy and we talk about social care and how it's played out in the Tory leadership campaign. |
| 1:49.0 | So Kim Darak, the US Ambassador to... I keep saying the US I keep doing this every day that this story has been going on in my free morning email |
| 1:58.0 | Please do sign up to it I struggle to do the US ambassador to UK ambassador to the presence of two countries |
| 2:06.4 | beginning with the word united in this story is just well luckily for you he is no more |
| 2:10.8 | the ambassador so you won't have that problem anymore. |
| 2:13.2 | Yeah so Kim Darak... |
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