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🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are looking back on the lessons learnt from last week's local elections. Then, in You Ask Us, they tackle the question of the smaller parties and how they can gain traction in a media climate not actively seeking their input.
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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 Stephen. We look back at the local elections. And we ask, how is life different if you're in a small party? |
1:37.0 | Stephen, do we have to talk about the local elections? Yes, they're an exciting |
1:46.4 | important event with lots of implications for how people are governed locally |
1:50.3 | and also you know they give us some window into voter behavior. |
1:56.0 | Okay I'm going to tell you what my takeaway was and you tell me whether or not it's true. |
1:59.6 | Conceptives did really badly so what they ended up with over a thousand |
2:02.4 | councillors lost? Yeah up with over a thousand |
2:02.5 | councillors lost yeah significantly more like a thousand three hundred or |
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