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Thank you. spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. 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.

Lloyd Grossman reads his diary for the week, pleading Britain to save its cathedrals.

Exploring the brazen views of socialite and Nazi sympathiser Unity Mitford,

Tanya Gold says that anti-Semitism runs deep across the aristocracy.

Harry Halem warns that Britain is not

prepared for the era of AI warfare as he looks ahead to another strategic defence review, Britain's

fourth such review in a decade. Angus Colwell interviews the American academic Agnes Callard,

whose unconventional life mirrors her approach to philosophy.

Philippe Sands reviews prosecuting the powerful war crimes and the Battle for Justice by Steve Crawshaw and argues that while the international criminal justice system was flawed from the

start, there are still reasons for hope. And finally, the spectators Michael Simmons

defends himself from accusations that he is a notorious gossip.

He is.

Up first, Lloyd Grossman.

My beloved 1967 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top guitar is now locked away until next December the earliest.

For the past eight years, I've had the terrifying privilege of dragging my axe,

as we guitarists call our instruments, on stage to perform in a series of Christmas gigs,

as we musicians call such performances, with the celebrated prog-rock band Jeffro Tull.

Ian Anderson, who leads the band, has for years generously staged a series of pre-Christmas concerts

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