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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Before we begin this podcast, I'd like to tell you about a special deal. |
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0:33.3 | 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. |
0:38.1 | I'm Laura Prendergast, the Spectator's executive editor. |
0:41.2 | And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
0:44.7 | In this week's episode, we ask, what harsh lessons can Europe learn from America? |
0:50.2 | We unpack the pseudoscience behind cholesterol skepticism, and we explore the magical thinking |
0:57.0 | of Charles Dickens. |
1:02.0 | The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. |
1:14.6 | And what I worry about is the threat from within. |
1:18.6 | The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. |
1:26.6 | And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear |
1:29.9 | friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic |
1:34.9 | liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. That was the American Vice President |
1:41.0 | J.D. Vance, signaling an end to the consensus that has underpinned |
1:45.8 | American and European relations since the end of the Second World War. Get Real is the headline |
1:52.8 | of the cover piece this week. The Spectator's editor Michael Gove has written the cover piece |
1:57.6 | in which he argues that Donald Trump's presidency marks a return to a bleaker, |
2:02.8 | starker, more pitiless world landscape. What he has shown is that the ideal of a rules-based |
2:08.7 | international order was a false hope. So, what should Europe do now? Earlier, I spoke to Michael |
2:16.9 | about his article alongside the foreign affairs |
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