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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 episode.

Hugh Schofield asks why there's no campaign to free the novelist Buellem Sancel. Following on from last week's

spectator cover, the Spectator's art editor, Igor Toroni Lalich, reacts to the magazine's

campaign against frivolous funding, and, continuing the campaign, Michael Simmons wonders if Britain

is funding organisations that

wish us harm.

Ahead of Sunday's German election, Lisa Hazeldine, reflects on whether the AFD's rise could

mean Weimar 2.0.

Reviewing Thou Savage Woman, female killers in early modern Britain, by Blessin Adams,

Alice Lockstone explores the gruesome and varied ways in which

women killed. And finally, in his wildlife column, from Kenya, Aidan Hartley reflects on how a secret

half-brother impacted his relationship with his father. Up first, Hugh Schofield.

What possible crime has Boulalem-Sonsal committed that merits this award-winning novelist being locked away for three months now by the Algerian police?

Listen to the Algerian government and its cheerleaders on social media, and the answer appears to be that he is at best a stooge for the French far right, at worst, an outright traitor.

Friends of the man paint another picture, a gently spoken, freethinker, with the courage to speak his mind.

Sausal, whose A.T. and suffers from cancer, was arrested at Algiers Airport on November the 16th as he got

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