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Hello. milestone. Hello and welcome to Spectator at Outsloud.

I'm Fraser Nelson.

Every week, if you have a writer's from the issue, read out their pieces in this podcast.

This episode, you'll hear from Andrew Sullivan, who's written a diary from New York, from our

assistant editor, Lara Prendergast, who's written about immunity passports, and finally our film critic, Deborah Ross.

First, here's Andrew Sullivan. We weren't long into Bruce Castor's opening speech defending Donald

Trump in his impeachment trial before we knew it was going to be

special. I don't want to steal the thunder from the other lawyers' thunder, cast her in tone to a mildly

befuddled Senate, but Nebraska, you're going to hear is quite a judicial thinking place, unquote.

We never got around to the payoff for that one, but there was plenty of other amusements. We learned about the Greek Republic, which apparently await salvation from the United States Senate.

We had a tech update.

Quote, we all know what records are right, the thing you put the needle down on it and then play it,

unquote. My personal favorite, quote, the floodgates will open. I was going to say originally

it will release the whirlwind, but I subsequently learned since I got here that that particular

phrase has already been taken. So I figured I would change it to floodgates, unquote.

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