TALKING POLITICS

Talking Politics/New Statesman PART 1

We're joined by Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush from the New Statesman podcast, to chew over the ups and downs of 2016.  How do they feel as journalists about a year when the political news has been so startling so often?  Who are the winners and losers from the 'fake news' agenda?  Who do their readers trust to tell them the truth?  Plus we look ahead to 2017 to ask what will happen when the economy catches up with the winners of 2016.  And we ask Helen and Stephen for their good news stories from the past year.To hear part II of our conversation, please go to http://www.newstatesman.com/podcast

Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction. What does the future hold? Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? This is the political conversation that matters. Talking Politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas.