NS#275: The Blue Wave
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🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Helen is joined by the New Statesman's US editor Nicky Woolf to discuss the child detention scandal on America's borders and the "blue wave" of left wing candidates winning primaries. Then, they answer a provocative listener question: what's annoying you most at the moment? (Spoiler, it's a lot, and some of it is Brexit-related.)
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| 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. |
| 1:05.6 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Nicky and you're joining us for the New States from podcast where this week we're going to talk about what's happening in US |
| 1:08.1 | politics because Nicky Wolf is our US editor and we'll also be talking about |
| 1:11.6 | what's annoying us this week. |
| 1:13.0 | spoiler alert, there are quite a lot of things. |
| 1:15.0 | And welcome to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:24.4 | Nicky Wolf, our new US editor is joining us this week because Stephen is actually on holiday. |
| 1:28.3 | I would like to clarify I wasn't on holiday last week when Stephen claimed that I was. |
| 1:31.6 | I was on a work trip to Israel and the |
| 1:33.9 | occupied Palestinian territories but he is in glory to St Ives |
| 1:37.2 | uh... personally lots of photos of himself on Instagram with crabs |
| 1:40.8 | no you didn't I didn't say that, that didn't happen. Mickey, I wanted you to join us because I don't know if you noticed, but some bad stuff is happening in America. |
| 1:50.3 | And some good stuff to you. |
| 1:51.5 | Okay, well let's talk about the good stuff first, because I think that's probably the |
| 1:54.6 | made me might cheer me up slightly. |
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