The New Statesman Podcast

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy

On this week's New Statesman podcast: George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian and Helen Lewis discuss the fallout from the Autumn Statement (and the ugly cuts that will define government policy after 2015), Daniel Trilling tells Xan Rice about the migrants risking life and limb to enter Fortress Europe, and Jonn Elledge, Philip Maughan and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett discuss the "confidence gap" that separates students at state schools and private schools. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Politics and ideas from Britain's leading progressive political magazine. Mondays: leading thinkers illuminate the ideas shaping the world, from politics to culture. Thursdays: host Anoosh Chakelian is joined by the New Statesman politics team to help you understand the week in politics, in Westminster and beyond. Featuring Andrew Marr, Rachel Cunliffe, Freddie Hayward and more. Saturdays: the New Statesman team answer your questions in "You Ask Us". -- Send us a question: www.newstatesman.com/youaskus Become a New Statesman subscriber: https://www.newstatesman.com/subscribe Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.