The housing crash is just beginning
Housing in the UK has become increasingly unaffordable during the last two decades, buying a home is an unattainable prospect for many in the country, and the challenges facing renters are now reachin...
2 Dec 202336min
The most misleading phrases in political journalism | You Ask Us
Andrew Marr joins the team in the studio this week to answer listener questions. John writes in to ask which often used misleading expressions in political journalism might warrant the use of a 'broad...
1 Dec 202317min
Tories shaken by record high migration
Andrew Marr, political editor at the New Statesman, speaks to Freddie Hayward, political correspondent, about why the newly published figures on net migration for 2022 have sent shockwaves through the...
30 Nov 202317min
Can older workers fix the economy? | Sponsored
Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, nearly a million people aged 50-64 have left the workforce. Other major economies have seen their employment rates bounce back after the pandemic, and the Fina...
29 Nov 202327min
How do Gen Z want to vote? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined
The writer, satirist and broadcaster Armando Iannucci returns to the New Statesman Podcast to co-host our fourth series of Westminster Reimagined.In this episode, which was recorded in the summer of 2...
27 Nov 202342min
100 years of British political nightmares
How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory m...
25 Nov 202330min
Are we poorer than we were in 2010? | You Ask Us
"The economy will play a central part of next year's election. Do you know if people are better off than in 2010?" - one listener writes in to ask. The podcast team discuss how this can be measured, a...
24 Nov 202314min
Autumn Statement: "A whacking great return to austerity"
Jeremy Hunt would like this Autumn Statement to be seen as what the government is branding “the biggest tax cut in British history”, but what are the actual costs and implications of the yesterday's b...
23 Nov 202326min
