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Hello and welcome to The Americano Show.

I'm Kate Andrews, and I'm guest hosting for Freddie Gray while he's over in the States.

We'll be getting reports from him this week on the U.S. election and be speaking to many other guests.

Now on with the show.

Hello and welcome to the Americano Show.

I'm your guest host, Kate Andrews, and I'm joined today by Lionel Shriver, author and columnist for The Spectator.

Lionel, thanks for joining me.

Great to see you.

Always a pleasure.

Lionel, in your most recent column for The Spectator, you write that you are America's last undecided voter representing so many Americans who can't quite make up their mind. Why have you

struggled to decide who you're going to vote for? Because I am being given to unacceptable

choices. Actually, it's funny that the spectator recently used in a headline, the expression

Hobson's Choice. And I looked up the meaning of

Hobson's choice to decide whether to use that expression in my column. And it's not quite a

Hobson's choice, because a Hobson's choice is when you're being given a choice between two things,

or perhaps many things, that really come down to the same thing. So that it's as

if you are being given a choice, but it's not really a choice. You really just stuck with one

outcome. And I wouldn't say that that's true of this situation. In no way do I think that

voting for Kamala Harris is exactly the same as voting for

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