Is it time to stop changing the clocks?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots, The Spectator’s James Heale, journalist Peter Hitchens and the IEA’s Christopher Snowdon argue the cases for and against daylight saving time. Are we all being needlessly robbed of an hour in bed? Or should we lighten up and embrace the longer days?

Produced by Natasha Feroze and Oscar Edmondson.

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0:19.5	Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.
0:22.3	I'm James Heal and I'm delighted to be joined today by two special guests,
0:25.4	but Christopher's known from the IEA.
0:27.2	I've got the great feet of hitchhins from the mail on Sunday as well.
0:30.2	And of course this weekend, the big story this Sunday is going to be the
0:34.2	clock's going forward by an hour. Peter, you've written a lot about this over the years, haven't you?
0:38.8	Incessantly.
0:40.0	It's because I'm the only person in Britain who understands it.
0:43.3	And the person who knows which time the clock's going forward, which time they went back.
0:47.2	This is because I once flew backwards across the international date light,
0:50.5	a very thought-provoking event where I started the day in Russia on Monday morning
0:56.3	and ended the day in Alaska the previous Sunday afternoon.
0:59.2	It concentrates your mind about time and clocks and I've, as a result,
1:02.9	I know what I'm talking about here and I can tell you, everybody else is wrong.
1:08.7	Well, that's not the first time I'm sure that's happened, but...
1:10.8	No, it isn't.
1:11.4	No, it would be the last time.
1:13.0	It's a particular thing I have this special claim.
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