Should we be optimistic about the next ten years?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As a parting gift to listeners before Fraser passes on the editors pen, Cindy Yu hosts a final contest between these two worthy debaters on whether we should be optimistic about the next ten years.
Has there ever been a better time to be alive, as Fraser argues? Or should we be concerned about the growing threat to civil liberties, volatile markets and foreign policies, the failure to grapple with migration and the looming birth rate crisis?
Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:22.0 | . . . . . Hello and welcome to the special coffee house shots. I'm Cindy you. Now loyal |
| 0:27.1 | listeners will know that as well as our concise daily political analysis coffee |
| 0:30.9 | house shots often delves deeper into the political topics of the day, not shiring away from fierce debates on controversial issues. |
| 0:38.0 | The most legendary of these intellectual clashes have been our editor, Fraser Nelson, against Kate Andrews, |
| 0:43.0 | our economic editor. |
| 0:44.0 | So as Fraser wraps up his last week as editor, |
| 0:47.0 | we thought, how better to send him out than one last battle of ideas? |
| 0:50.0 | Have Kate and Fraser here? |
| 0:52.0 | Now, Kate, the topic we'll be discussing today was your idea so why don't you start by telling us what it is and why you think it would be such a bone of contention? |
| 0:59.0 | It was difficult to come up with an idea between the two of us for what the last big debate should be, |
| 1:04.8 | partially because we've tackled some pretty big issues and I just don't think listeners |
| 1:08.9 | need to listen to us. |
| 1:09.7 | All of which you've improved on? |
| 1:12.1 | I don't think listeners need to hear again. |
| 1:14.0 | My phrase was just so incredibly wrong on immigration, for example. |
| 1:18.0 | But I was also thinking about what would really be a tribute to some of the best qualities of our outgoing editor. |
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