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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast.

Reading his letter from Washington,

D.C., Freddie Gray reveals what Liz Truss, Eric Zamore and Steve Bannon made of Trump's inauguration.

Tanya Gold writes about the sad truth behind the gypsies facing eviction in Cornwall.

Rose George reviews The Forgotten Sense, The New Science of Smell, a new book by Jonas Oliveson,

and explains the surprising link between odour disgust and political attitudes.

Toby Young takes us through his favourite anecdotes about President Trump, having crossed paths with him in New York City in the 1990s.

And finally, taking inspiration from the French, Rory Sutherland proposes a

unique way to enhance Britain's economic growth, areas of outstanding natural ugliness.

Up first, Freddie Gray. The special relationship is dead. Long live the special relationship.

On Friday, at a stars and stripes and union jack

celebration, British and American right wingers mingled gladly atop the Hay Adams Hotel,

which overlooks the White House. Nigel Farage and co smoked cigarettes with their Republican brethren

and shared Trump war stories. Dulled- up American girls took selfies with Liz Truss,

and Steve Bannon showered Lord Glassman, the Labour Pier, with admiration.

The horseshoe theory has gone full circle.

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