A by-election reckoning — and unexploded bombs everywhere

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  This is a battle for the soul of our nation.

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  It's for a foreign party versus the Green Party.

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  The Labour Party's talking about the Labour Party.

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  The Green Party's talking about Gaza.

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  I'm talking about Gorton and Denton.

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  Don't let Madzac hypnotise you into voting Green.

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  Look, I get it.

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  We all hate party broadcasts.

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  We just want to watch Cory or whatever's on next.

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  Welcome to The State of It,

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  a political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times that promises to bring you inside the room where it's happened,

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  in the corridors of power, the some knowledge of everything that we do,

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  our lunches, breakfasts and dinners with the people that matter in Westminster.

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  I'm Stephen Swinford.

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  I'm Patrick Maguire.

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  And I'm Gabriel Pogrand.

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  And look, it is a pretty explosive week in British politics.

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  We are going to be talking about the arrest of Lord Mandelson, what that means.

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  We're going to be talking about the Gorton and Denton by-election.

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  We'll get the result in the early hours of Friday morning and just how...

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