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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. Following calls for a full-scale national inquiry into the grooming gangs, Michael Gove

offers up some advice to Kirstama based on his time in government. Have you been to a divorce party

this season? Mary Wakefield wonders if they're really as fun as they seem.

The American diplomat Mitchell Reese reviews a new book looking at the promise and peril of

AI. Genesis, artificial intelligence, hope and the human spirit is a collaboration between

the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, the former chief research and strategy officer

at Microsoft, Craig Mundy, and the late

American Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, completed shortly before Kissinger died.

Max Jeffrey listens to the Army Hammer Time podcast as the actor attempts public rehabilitation

and finds it as compelling as his downfall. And finally, Nicholas Farrell reveals the time

he got drunk with the ghost of Mussolini.

Up first, Michael Gove.

It will probably only damn me further in the eyes of many, but when I was a government minister,

I often used to ask Labour predecessors for advice. Tony Blair, especially. He may have felt it was a forlorn exercise ever

offering me his wisdom, especially when I went on to back Brexit, support Parliament's

prerogation under Boris, and defend Dominic Cummings against all comers. But I always appreciated

his insights, even when we disagreed. No position is so strong, no policy so perfect,

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