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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. 50 years on from Thatcher's election as Tory leader, James Heel reflects on what she would have made of the

problems today's Conservatives face. Andrew Kenny analyzes how damaging South Africa's

expropriation act could be. Lara Prendergast explores the mystery behind John R. Bradley,

the spectator's man in the Middle East.

Reviewing Listenin, how Radio changed the home, by Beatty Rubens, Yersenda Maxton Graham, reflects on how the start of radio followed a pattern of technology familiar to us today.

And finally, Nina Power examines two exhibitions looking at rage of different kinds. War and the

Mind at the Imperial War Museum looks at the psychological impact of war, while safety curtain

at Auto Italia focuses on artworks and artefacts that have been targeted for different causes.

Which battles are worth fighting for? Up first, James Heel.

It is 50 years since Margaret Thatcher was elected Tory leader, and at this week,

at a cabinet meeting, Lord Forsyth was invited as guest speaker to mark the occasion.

He noted the similarities between 1975 and 2025. Back then, the party was broke, ridding from

defeat and facing the fallout from a reorganisation of local government.

But, despite threadbare resources, Thatcher managed to rebuild to win power four years later.

You have the potential do the same, for Seth told Camille Badernock.

Yet there is a crucial difference between then and now, a rival on the right.

Nigel Farage's reform party is vying with Badernaud to inherit Thatcher's mantle.

Each leader is competing for the same voters, members and donors. Across the country, Tory associations are split as old activists peel off to form new reform ratches. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Tory MP, suggests it is a familial spirit.

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