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Hello and welcome to The Spiked Podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week as ever we have

Spikes deputy editor Tom Slater hello and spiked columnist Ella Whelan

Hi coming up on the show coronavirus and the culture war, the effectiveness of lockdowns, and how celebrities

are taking the crisis.

The pandemic appears to be disproportionately affecting people of color

another victim from an ethnic minority. You cheer as I toil. The mortality rates from

COVID-19 may be higher for men, but the pandemic is having devastating social and

economic consequences for women. Is this a revolution of women? Or are we seeing a

crisis of competency by so many male leaders around the world.

Some of us might have hoped that the coronavirus crisis would put the culture

wars to one side and unite the world in the fight against a vicious disease.

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