Burnham booted, Braverman back ... and how to beat the New Censorship

Starmer slaps down Andy Burnham’s bid to stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election: bad move for Labour, bad timing from Burnham, or another distraction we don’t need? Plus, who’s bringing the best self to the overladen Reform bandwagon: twice-sacked Home Sec and Creature Comforts creation Suella Braverman, or race-baiting former academic Matt Goodwin? Special guest, media analysts Ayala Panievsky, takes us through the populist assault on the right to know, and her book The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down. And in the Extra Bit: Who’s feeling the “middle class spending crisis?”

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ESCAPE ROUTES

•  HANNAH has been readingEurotrash by Christian Kracht

•  MATT recommends the Tourette’s movie I Swear

•  AYALA PANIEVSKY has been going to Iranian and Persian raves in Hackney like this one

•  ANDREW has rediscovered the (mostly) pre-Trump nostalgia of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix.  

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