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🗓️ 23 January 2025
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0:31.2 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we shed a little light on the thought process behind putting the world's oldest weekly magazine to bed. |
0:36.5 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
0:39.1 | And I'm Lara Prendergars, the Spectator's Executive Editor. |
0:43.1 | In this week's edition, how British manufacturing is being killed off, |
0:48.1 | why the Vatican is engaged in a tit-for-tat spat with the Trump administration, |
0:53.4 | and the depressing reality of sex parties. |
1:04.6 | First, in our cover this week, Matthew Lynn explores the death of British manufacturing. |
1:10.5 | He writes that the country that birthed |
1:12.1 | the Industrial Revolution has not just moved into a post-industrial society, but it runs |
1:16.8 | the risk of becoming a zero industrial society. Well, Matthew joined us to discuss his argument |
1:23.1 | alongside Paul Noak, the general secretary of the TUC. I started by asking Matthew just how bad |
1:29.6 | the situation is and who's to blame? Yeah, I mean, you know, big question. I mean, I think in the |
1:35.0 | piece I did this week, I was just trying to pull together various things. You know, you's kind of like, |
1:39.3 | you see all these individual stories coming out, like we see, you know, some of the car factories |
1:43.9 | closing. We see like the car factories closing. |
1:44.7 | We see like Ineos closing its ethanol plant up in Scotland in Grangemouth with |
1:50.2 | Cytrind Raptith, you know, saying, talking about a catastrophe for British manufacturing. |
1:55.2 | We see people like Airbus and JCP, who are some of the best companies in the UK, you know, |
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