Trumps and Rumps
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are discussing Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, and whether there's any point to all the pomp and ceremony. Then, Helen talks to Ben Power, writer of The Lehman Trilogy, about how to dramatise centuries of the financial system, and, finally, in You Ask Us, we say goodbye to (most of) Change UK and answer your questions about whether the remaining MPs can make it to conference season.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
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| 0:20.8 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your |
| 0:35.0 | there. |
| 0:40.0 | the care in the world as you simply lean back. |
| 0:37.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:40.0 | This is how travels should feel, |
| 0:42.0 | and on our trains it does. |
| 0:45.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and on this week's new states from podcast we talk |
| 1:06.8 | about state visits is there any point to them Helen speaks to Ben Power about |
| 1:10.5 | the Lehman trilogy and what is the future of C UK RIP? |
| 1:14.3 | Do you have a favorite picture from the Trump State visit Stephen. So actually I have very few |
| 1:24.4 | pictures from it in my mind because one because as we speak I've just you know left |
| 1:30.2 | my column cocoon so I'm only distantly aware of what the images of it looked like. |
| 1:35.8 | That's very funny. You'll do things the other way around to me which is that the more I'm writing a piece |
| 1:39.1 | the more my design with my browsing finger strays towards Mail Online thinking they'll have loads and loads |
| 1:44.6 | of pictures of all the frocks. |
| 1:46.9 | I can tell you that Kate Middleton as was wore a delightful white Alexander McQueen gown. |
| 1:52.3 | A Vanca Trump wore a Caroline Herrera gown that was a shirt |
| 1:55.2 | dress with a big full skirt that made her unfortunately look like wallpaper. |
| 1:58.4 | Tiffany Trump, my favorite Trump was wearing a dress that I'm pretty sure I wore as |
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