Audio Reads: Matthew Parris, Lionel Shriver, and Isabel Hardman

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🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Spectator is meant for sharing. But in the age of coronavirus, that might not be possible. This new podcast will feature a few of our columnists reading out their articles from the issue each week, so that you don't miss out. It's a new format, so tell us what you think at [email protected].

Matthew Parris warns against comparing coronavirus to the war, Lionel Shriver fears the economic repercussions, and Isabel Hardman explains why stockpiling hens isn't such a good idea.

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0:00.0	This month, The Spectator becomes the first magazine in history to print 10,000 issues,
0:05.9	and we'd like to celebrate with you.
0:08.3	Subscribe to The Spectator for 12 weeks for just £12.
0:12.2	Plus, we'll send you a bottle of commemorative Spectator gin, absolutely free.
0:17.7	Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash celebrate.
0:26.5	Welcome to a rather different edition of The Spectator podcast.
0:34.1	I'm Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, and we always think that each issue of the magazine
0:40.2	tends to be shared around by about three or four other people. Subscribers quite often give
0:45.3	it to their friends and family and that's going to be a little bit trickier now that we're
0:51.8	in lockdown. So we were thinking how do we get the columns, the articles
0:57.1	that people might be missing about their family might have been passing on to them before?
1:01.7	And we came up with the idea of this podcast. So we've asked three of our columnists to read
1:07.7	their articles out loud. I'm delighted to say that we've got Matthew Paris,
1:13.2	Liner Schreiber and Isabel Hardman. First off is Matthew Paris on why we should not consider this
1:21.2	to be a war. Shut up. Don't you know there's a war on?
1:33.3	Strong hints of that attitude have emerged in recent weeks, and the hints are getting stronger.
1:35.5	The attitude is mistaken.
1:42.5	The right answer to any inquiry about whether we know there's a war on is that there isn't a war on.
1:46.3	Nobody with sensible questions to ask about the current strategy or its implementation should be abashed to ask them. Hitler's spies are not listening,
1:53.8	Lord Hawaul will not be broadcasting them, and a grown-up citizenry does not confuse intelligent
1:59.4	questioning with unpatriotic breaking of the ranks.
2:03.7	No doubt some questions will be misplaced, some will have easy answers and a few may hit home,
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