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Hello and welcome to the edition. The Spectators look at some of the most intriguing and important issues within the week's magazine.

I'm Lara Prendergars.

This week, Joe Biden wants his administration to be a clear departure from the days of

Donald Trump, but will a change in foreign policy harm American interests.

Plus, Brexit deadlines seem to come and go, but is this finally the week where a deal

might be done?

And finally, should cyclists be given priority on London's roads?

First up, Dominic Green writes about Biden's burden in this week's cover piece.

He argues that while the president-elect has promised to be the antithesis of Trump in almost every sense,

an interventionist foreign policy married to domestic

wokeery could spell trouble. To explain what he means by this, Dominic, the spectator's deputy

US editor, joins me alongside Leslie Vindamuri, director of the US and America's program at Chatham

House. Dominic, in this week's issue, you say that Biden has a chance to reshape America's foreign policy for a new era,

but that's because Trump has already done a lot of the legwork.

What legacy has Trump left Biden?

Laura, I would compare it to a partially constructed building in that he cleared the ground of the leftovers of Cold War and 20th century American policy,

which were no longer working for the US or its allies, and laid some foundations.

And in some areas, it started to actually build upon them.

You have to assume that the Trump administration was counting on getting a second term

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