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25:10

What Labour must learn from Zohran Mamdani

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2025/11/06

Voters in New York City have elected a socialist, Muslim, 34-year old Mayor. Here's what Labour need to learn from Zohran Mamdani's campaign. -- Zohran Mamdani calls himself "Donald Trump's worst nightmare". In the UK, senior Labour figures including Wes Streeting have praised the young Democrat Mayor-Elect's campaign. But should Labour be celebrating a win in America's Democrat stronghold, when they can't win their own seat in Wales? George Eaton and Megan Kenyon join Anoosh Chakelian to discuss

34:22

Britain's next maternity scandal

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2025/11/05

A four-month investigation with Channel 4 News reveals harrowing failings at one of Britain's most prestigious hospitals. Oli Dugmore speaks to the New Statesman's Investigations Editor, Hannah Barnes. Read: Britain's next maternity scandal

39:46

Huntingdon train attack: knife crime in suburbia

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2025/11/04

Is Britain becoming a country of mass violence? On Saturday evening, a Doncaster to London train was forced to stop in Huntingdon after eleven people were injured in a stabbing spree. Anthony Williams, a 32 year-old British national, was charged on Monday with multiple counts of attempted murder. Oli Dugmore is joined by Anoosh Chakelian and Rachel Cunliffe. Read: Knife crime is creeping into Middle England

44:03

What's Farage's plan for the economy?

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2025/11/03

Today, Nigel Farage set out his updated vision for the UK economy. At a speech and press conference in London, The Reform UK leader talked tax, immigration, welfare, Brexit and his days working in the City. The New Statesman's Ethan Croft was at the event. Ethan joins Oli Dugmore to discuss.

19:40

Do we have too many leftist parties?

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2025/11/01

Is Build Baby Build doomed? Is Katie Lam running for leader? Where is Priti Patel? Can the UK really support 5 large leftist parties? Luke O'Reilly joins Anoosh Chakelian to answer listener questions. Ask us a question

22:31

David Lammy's plan to stop Farage | Exclusive interview

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2025/10/31

The Deputy PM believes that Labour can beat the threat of the populist right, Nigel Farage and Reform. Lammy says that Labour can achieve this by tackling the cost of living crisis, uniting the centre and left of British politics and putting security first. Oli Dugmore sat down with David Lammy to discuss his plan. Read: Nigel Farage can be stopped

23:54

England's most deprived areas revealed

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2025/10/30

Which are the most deprived neighbourhoods in England and how might this map onto voter intent? Anoosh Chakelian is joined by senior data journalist Ben Walker, to discuss what we can learn from the English Indices of Deprivation.

46:41

Abolish the rotten monarchy

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2025/10/29

Another bad week for Prince Andrew. You could say the man hasn't had a good week since 2011. Although, actually, he does live in a 30-bedroom mansion in Windsor and enjoyed a million quid a year from his mum. In this week's cover story Will Lloyd makes the case for abolishing the monarchy, and that the Windsors have always been more involved with British politics than we know. He speaks to Oli Dugmore in this episode.

24:51

Can Labour afford to raise taxes?

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2025/10/28

With the Autumn budget looming, the government has some tough decisions to make. Rachel Reeves has to find a predicted £30bn in extra revenue to meet her self-imposed fiscal rules. But as part of its manifesto pledges, Labour promised not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT. And after a crushing defeat in Wales last week, what can the government actually get away with without angering the public further? Anoosh Chakelian is joined by polling analyst Steve Akehurst. Read: Just Raise Tax by

45:46

Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai...

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2025/10/25

With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global Anglosphere, becoming - at the time - the youngest person ever to do so. She was thirty-five. Then: silence. 19 years of it, before another novel emerged - this year. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. It, too, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Will Desai win it again?

29:16

The death of Welsh Labour

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2025/10/24

Is Welsh Labour dead? Harry Clarke-Ezzidio reports from Caerphilly, speaking to Rhun ap Iorwerth, Huw Irranca-Davies, Llyr Powell, and Dan Evans.

16:38

Labour loses Caerphilly for first time in over 100 years

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2025/10/24

After 14 attempts, Lindsay Whittle has won the Caerphilly seat in South Wales for Plaid Cymru. Reform came in second with over a third of the vote, and Labour trailed in third with 11%. A devastating loss for the party. Harry Clarke-Ezzidio is joined by Ben Walker in Caerphilly Leisure Centre.

31:59

Why the Trump-Putin summit fell apart

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2025/10/22

Donald Trump's planned summit with Vladimir Putin is cancelled. Here's why. -- Less than a week after Donald Trump offered to meet Vladimir Putin in Budapest, the proposed summit has already fallen apart. Officially, "there's no need" for the two presidents to meet, since their respective foreign ministers are conducting conversations. But what's really behind the cancellation? And what on earth is Donald Trump up to in Venezuela? Seven extra-judicial attacks on civilian boats, dozens dead

53:12

Your Party and the UK's left crisis

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2025/10/21

James Schneider, the former director of strategic communications for Jeremy Corbyn, was involved in the founding of Your Party earlier this year. He has since stepped back from the project. In this episode he joins Anoosh Chakelian to discuss the growing gap on the left of UK politics and who could fill it.

26:22

Andrew, duke no more

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2025/10/20

Andrew had already stepped down as a working royal, after that disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019, but he’s now gone a step further and agreed to relinquish the “title or the honours which have been conferred upon” him. Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Will Lloyd and Rachel Cunliffe to discuss what these latest decisions, announced on the eve of the publication of Virginia Roberts Guiffre's posthumous memoir, mean for the Royal Family.

45:16

100 years of Thatcher, with Charles Moore

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2025/10/18

A century on from the her birth, Tanjil Rashid sits down with the Iron Lady's official biographer, Charles Moore.

01:21:09

Is liberalism dead? with John Gray

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2025/10/17

For over 30 years, John Gray has written for the New Statesman on everything from Artificial Intelligence to Friedrich Nietzsche. He joins deputy editor Will Lloyd to discuss the state of the nation.

26:55

Unlock the triple lock

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2025/10/16

Andrew Marr joins Rachel Cunliffe to discuss his column in this week's magazine, Tax the old. They also discuss the latest developments in the China spy case.

20:45

Emperor Trump and his British courtiers

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2025/10/15

"All I've done all my life is deals. The greatest deals just sort of happen…” President Trump announced at a celebratory peace-deal signing attended by dozens of nations in Sharm el-Sheikh earlier this week. But who were the powers behind Trump? Behind this deal? Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Freddie Hayward who has written this week’s cover story The Emperor: How Trump and his British Courtiers secured the Gaza deal

32:02

The UK needs a China reset

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2025/10/14

Did Keir Starmer's government quash an espionage case to curry favour with China? -- There's fury in Westminster over the case of two alleged China spies which collapsed last month. Kemi Badenoch has accused the Labour government of deliberately quashing the prosecution to appease China, blaming National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell. The government denies this, and Keir Starmer has said Powell has his "full support". So what really happened? And why does China matter so much to the UK

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