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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose some of our favourite articles from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast,

Owen Matthews argues that with Erdogan's latest power move, the Turkish president's position is starting to look shaky.

Having swept much of the home counties of the southeast and the rural seats in the southwest,

James Heel insists that the Liberal Democrats are the new party of the posh.

Francis Pike says that Chinese hypersonic missiles pose a grave danger to America's aircraft carriers.

Reviewing Norway's War, a people's struggle against Nazi tyranny, 1940 to 45, by Robert Ferguson,

Christian House highlights a forgotten occupation of the Second World War.

And finally, Mark Mason provides his notes on coins.

Up first, Owen Matthews.

Turkey's president, Recep Taip Erdogan, has never been so weak nor so strong.

At home, he is facing the most potent challenge to his power since

an armed coup in 2016, in the form of a serious electoral challenger, whom he has just jailed,

causing massive protests and unsettling the money markets. Internationally, though, he has never

been stronger. Every major power block in the world, it seems, needs Turkey's help, with issues ranging from

immigration to peacekeeping and energy supplies.

For Europe, Erdogan remains a major gas supplier and an essential bulwark against immigrants

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