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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.

Ahead of the publication of her book Downfall, Nadine Dorries reads her diary for the week. Katie Balls analyzes the politics around the

assisted dying vote scheduled to take place in two weeks time. From Whitby, Edmund West reads his

goth's notebook. Reviewing Avonash Paliwell's, India's near east,

a new history. Sam Dalrymple examines how Bangladesh came to be established. And finally,

how British were William Morris' designs? Tangil Rashid examines the artist's debt to Islam.

Up first, Nadine Dorries.

Last week I arrived in London from the Cotswolds just in time to witness the collective meltdown from everyone around me

as it was announced that Donald Trump was the President-elect.

I was delighted, who are we to complain? The American people knew exactly what they were

doing. I had been booked on to ITVs this morning, where we were to discuss Kamala Harris's

resignation speech. A story is so feeble it wouldn't last until the 6pm news. The tone in the studio was poor Kamala. I was

having none of it. She fully deserved to lose. She had no coherent policies in immigration or the economy

and banged on endlessly about women's reproductive rights as though that were all women cared

about. At the same time, Democrats patronised women,

telling them to vote for Kamala but not to tell their husbands. I was amazed anyone thought

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