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Hello and welcome to the Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast. In the last few days,

world order seems to have been turned on its head as Trump antagonized his Western allies at the

G7 summit and then shook the hand of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. We ask, how will Trump

treat his allies in the July NATO summit?

So the US is in the situation. It spends about double the percentage of the NATO generally

on the military. It's at war in the Middle East. It's supposed to protect

South Korea and Japan. There's a huge burden on the United States, and the Europeans, in my view,

take that for granted. We also talked to Peter Hitchens and Paul Mason about Marxism in the

modern day. Are there any commies left in Britain? Many of the policies which they praise themselves

for pursuing in terms

of comprehensive education or getting women out into factories and not wasting their time,

supposedly looking after their children, these are now policies of the British Conservative Party,

but they were the social policies of the German Democratic Republic. And finally, we look at how

effective the services for the homeless are in London.

A lot of the guys, when they're coming to the soup kitchen,

they don't even want to eat food.

It's a conversation.

The conversations they have is amazing.

To say, yes, I was in the Second World War and I was a chef.

And it's just so crazy to see such the high

age range and the lower MA drains all congregating in the same place. Over the weekend, the G7

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