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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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0:00.0 | You can get three months of The Spectator for just £15, plus a free bottle of Paul Régé champagne |
0:05.5 | if you go to spectator.com.uk forward slash FIS24. This offer is UK-only and subject to this special Christmas edition podcast from The Spectator, |
0:28.1 | where we'll be shedding a little light on the process behind putting the Spectator's Christmas triple issue to bed. |
0:35.0 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's features editor. |
0:37.4 | And I'm Laura Prendergast, the Spectator's Features Editor. And I'm Lara Prendergast, |
0:38.6 | the Spectator's executive editor. This week, we'll be reviewing the year with some of the |
0:43.3 | spectators' columnists. We'll be asking what it's like to spend Christmas under the sea, |
0:48.5 | and we'll be joined by Anthony Horowitz to celebrate the genius of Hage's Tintin. |
0:53.9 | Scattered throughout the podcast, you'll also be hearing some festive submissions to our |
0:58.3 | agony aunt, Dear Mary. |
1:08.6 | So it's been quite the year. |
1:11.6 | Earlier today, I spoke with His Majesty the King to request the dissolution of Parliament, |
1:16.6 | and we will have a general election on the 4th of July. |
1:19.6 | Oh, my God. |
1:23.6 | A labour landslide. |
1:28.4 | Because in the aftermath of this attack, the community of Southport had to suffer twice. |
1:35.1 | That's where the Ukrainians do really well, moving into Kursk on a 30-mile front by about 20 miles deep, |
1:40.0 | and that may get considerably bigger quite quickly. |
1:42.9 | A view of Iran's mass launch of missiles towards Israel last night. |
1:46.7 | The lack of warning to civilian aviation, a sign of the will to surprise. |
1:50.5 | Yeah, that I'm soon to enter the Valhalla of ex-specator editors. |
1:55.4 | My successor is going to be none other than Michael Gould. |
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