Should we ban social media for under-16s?
Will Keir Starmer ban kids from social media?Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DHAQOeEg-Z-4trARDXHRA?sub_confirmation=1The PM has promised a crackdown on social media and said h...
16 Helmi 32min
The Labour Party's "unpopularity contest"
Labour’s unpopularity contest, the joys of figure skating and bonkers advice from RFK Jr's nutrition chatbot.Anoosh Chakelian and Will Dunn explore the most ludicrous and laughable stories of the week...
14 Helmi 33min
£100k salary, feeling poor – is tax killing ambition?
A listener paying 67% in tax asks if Labour are destroying UK productivity. From the new and improved New Statesman podcast studio, Anoosh and Rachel answer listener questions on tax, student loans an...
13 Helmi 24min
Exclusive investigation: England's maternity scandal
55 babies died at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust between 2019 and 2023 that may have survived with better care. The New Statesman's investigations editor Hannah Barnes joins Anoo...
12 Helmi 27min
Is the Labour party having an ideological crisis?
Morgan McSweeney – Keir Starmer’s closest aide and confidante – has left the Number 10 operation.Our editor-in-chief Tom McTague asks, is it the beginning of the end for the Prime Minister – or the en...
11 Helmi 28min
Keir Starmer is safe - but for how long?
For days and weeks Westminster has been quivering with anticipation at the prospect of yet another prime ministerial resignation and leadership election.But following the resignation of Chief of Staff...
10 Helmi 27min
Starmer's top two aides quit
Less than 24 hours after Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney resigned, Tim Allan, director of communications, has quit. Is this a rutheless clearout by the PM, or signs of an entire system colla...
9 Helmi 23min
Elon Musk asked to attend Epstein's "wildest party"
Elon Musk’s Epstein lies, Draco Malfoy as a Chinese mascot and two Reform MPs “accidentally” voting to scrap the two child benefit cap.Anoosh Chakelian and Will Dunn explore their stories of the week....
7 Helmi 37min
