NS#138: Celebrity, uncertainty, and cinema

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🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Helen and Stephen talk plots from Super Tuesday and Europe. George Eaton explores Labour’s latest drama. Then the SRSLY Podcast’s Anna Leszkiewicz joins to discuss what we love and loathe about the Oscars. You also ask us: Has politics been paused? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton, Anna Leszkiewicz)

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0:52.0	Stephen are we going to have to talk about Europe again?
0:55.0	Well, we could talk about the series of elections in the Republic of Ireland in Super Tuesday.
1:01.0	We could do that instead, or we could do Europe.
1:03.0	We have to do Europe, don't we?
1:04.0	Let's just reconcile ourselves to it.
1:06.0	Also, can we just, let's just have a brief moment of allowing ourselves a moment of gloating about Super Tuesday and the fact that our belief that Bernie Sanders was not in fact going
1:16.2	to rise up in a populist to Jeremy Corbyn like uprising and dethroned Hillary Clinton does appear
1:21.7	to be so far borne out by the numbers.
1:24.1	Yep, it is this thing I find endlessly fascinating about US elections and they are covered.
1:29.6	Fine by foreign correspondence who you know their readers don't
1:33.2	but they're covered by American correspondence if they've never done it before so
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