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🗓️ 13 March 2025
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0:00.0 | On the 27th of March, the Coffeehouse Shots team will be joined by special guests to give you their take on a Spring Statement. |
0:05.9 | We will be live on stage at London's Cadogan Hall. To get your tickets today, visit spectator.com. |
0:11.6 | UK forward slash spring statement live. We'll see you there. Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, |
0:28.1 | where each week we shed a little light on the thought process |
0:30.9 | behind putting the world's oldest weekly magazine to bed. |
0:34.2 | I'm Laura Prendergast, the Spectator's executive editor. |
0:37.1 | And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Executive Editor. And I'm William Moore, the |
0:38.1 | Spectator's Features Editor. On this week's podcast, we're going to be talking about the return |
0:43.9 | of sectarian and religious persecution from Syria to the Congo, the rare languages facing |
0:49.9 | extinction, and Gen Z's favourite aesthetic trend, boom boom. |
1:01.0 | With the fall of the Assad regime last year, there was a burst of optimism for Syria's |
1:05.6 | future and the new leadership made sure to make overtures to the West and gave guarantees |
1:10.3 | that they would |
1:10.8 | respect and protect the country's many religious and cultural minorities. This all appears rather |
1:16.4 | to have been in vain with the news this week of hundreds of civilians massacred mainly from the |
1:21.3 | Aloite group. The Aloites are an ethno-religious Muslim minority, many of whom supported |
1:26.6 | the Assad leadership. |
1:28.3 | As Paul Wood writes in this week's magazine, reports suggest the killings were perpetrated by |
1:32.7 | militias loyal to the new president, Al Jolani. Syria is also home to a small Christian community, |
1:39.3 | one of the oldest in the world, which has fallen from 1.5 million people to just 300,000 since the start of the |
1:46.2 | Civil War in 2011. Given the violence, the Alawites have faced, concerns have risen about the |
1:52.7 | safety of this group, and Father Benedict Kili asks in the magazine, can Christianity survive |
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