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🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine is home to wonderful writing, insightful analysis and unrivaled books and arts reviews. |
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0:28.6 | Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. |
0:33.6 | Each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud. |
0:36.2 | I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast. |
0:40.0 | Catherine Lafferty argues that the drive to end-end teen pregnancies aided the grooming gangs. |
0:42.5 | Following Luke Littler's win at the World Darts Championships last week, |
0:46.8 | Michael Simmons says that Gen Z are ruining darts. |
0:50.3 | Paul Wood examines America's unlikely new ally |
0:53.0 | in the battle against the terrorist group ISIS. |
0:55.8 | Philip Henscher takes us through the history of the Brothers Grimm and says that the words once upon a time once proved more dangerous than war or revolution. |
1:04.9 | Isabel Hardman takes us through the new garden at the Natural History Museum and says that one of the most beautiful buildings in London |
1:11.0 | has gained a wonderful garden to match its stature. And finally, why would anyone spend so much |
1:16.5 | time looking at airplane crashes on YouTube, while Damien Thompson reveals why in his |
1:21.5 | guest life column this week? Up first, Catherine Lafferty. How did the deprave cruelty of Britain's grooming gangs go on for so long, so openly, with such seeming impunity? |
1:33.3 | One overlooked but vitally important element of the scandal is that over the past 30 years, |
1:38.4 | the lines of defence girls had against sex crimes were deliberately taken down in the drive |
1:43.5 | to reduce the country's number of |
1:45.0 | teenage pregnancies. The first and most important line of defence any girl will have against |
1:50.5 | male predation is usually her own family. The first step in dismantling these defences came in |
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