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NS#244: The Maybot Malfunctions

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🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Stephen discuss Theresa May's latest baffling Brexit blunder and the fate of the EU Withdrawal Bill. Then John Crace, parliamentary sketch writer at the Guardian, joins them to talk about parliamentary satire. Finally, they answer a listener question: are the culture wars worse now than ever before?

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Stephen in the Standard on Labour and Brexit.

John Crace's new book "I, Maybot".

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

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0:20.8

Aruhovich listen to my new series from Tortoise, Eight Years Hard Labour.

0:25.9

It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015,

0:31.6

from centre left to hard left and back again, the battles and

0:35.7

disasters that accompanied them and the two men who led those revolutions,

0:39.7

Jeremy Corbyn and Kiea.

1:04.6

Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and on this week's new states from podcast we talk about the passage of the EU withdrawal bill through the

1:08.0

Commons this week we talk with John Kras about the art of a sketch and

1:11.2

finally is the cultural getting better or worse? Let's talk about Brexit it.

1:25.0

That's my new slogan.

1:26.2

I hope you really want to get used to that because you're going to be hearing a lot more

1:28.8

of it over the next 20 to 30 years of your life.

1:31.6

Stephen there was Bill, the EU withdrawal bill, the great repeal

1:35.3

but I guess as it once was in the midst of time. Was it? It was, but I get very stern about

1:41.0

this. It should never have been the adjectives

1:43.4

and not allowed it's nothing okay I think you can argue about the great no

1:46.7

no there were many problems with the great repeal bill one isn't you're not

1:50.3

allowed to put adjectives yeah I know otherwise we'd have the Michael Govey's a legend bill.

1:54.2

In common bills, which, yeah, does avoid the kind of US style,

1:59.0

you know, like the happy child bill.

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