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Why the non-dom scandal shows Rishi Sunak is bad at politics
As Rishi Sunak comes under investigation by the government’s standards watchdog, Ailbhe Rea and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the fallout from the revelat…
4 years, 3 months ago
Are voters moving to Labour or to nowhere?
Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea are joined by the senior data journalist Ben Walker to mark the launch of State of the Nation, the New Statesman’s ne…
4 years, 3 months ago
How Russia abuses Britain’s legal system, with the activist Vladimir Ashurkov
As the EU and UK debate further sanctions on Russia after evidence of massacres by Russian forces in Bucha, north of Kyiv, Ailbhe Rea speaks to the e…
4 years, 3 months ago
Has the Spring Statement deflated Rishi Sunak?
As the fallout from Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement continues, New Statesman Political Editor Andrew Marr joins Ailbhe Rea to discuss why it was recei…
4 years, 4 months ago
What is “Britishness” – and does it still matter? With Gary Younge, Jeremy Deller and Jason Cowley
This special episode of the New Statesman Podcast marks “A Dream of Britain”, the New Statesman’s latest issue. It is guest edited by Michael Sheen a…
4 years, 4 months ago
Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement shows he's still a high-tax Chancellor
Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement as the Office for Budget Responsibility warns the UK is about to face the bigg…
4 years, 4 months ago
Bonus episode: Michael Sheen on class, culture and Britishness
Ahead of his guest-edited issue of the New Statesman, the actor and campaigner Michael Sheen speaks to Anoosh Chakelian for a special episode of the …
4 years, 4 months ago
P&O Ferries uses "slave labour on the high seas", says Karl Turner MP
P&O Ferries caused outrage last week (17 March) when it sacked 800 crew members to replace them with “cheap agency workers from eastern Europe” overn…
4 years, 4 months ago
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's long fight for freedom
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been reunited with her family in Britain, having been imprisoned for years in Iran on charges of seeking to overthrow t…
4 years, 4 months ago
Priti Patel is "pulling up the drawbridge" for Ukrainian refugees, says Alf Dubs
As the government scrabbles its policy together for Ukrainian refugees, the Labour peer and refugee campaigner Alf Dubs tells Anoosh Chakelian that t…
4 years, 4 months ago