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Best of the Spectator

Spectator Out Loud: Christopher Caldwell, Gus Carter, Ruaridh Nicoll, Tanya Gold, and Books of the Year I

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Christopher Caldwell asks what a Trump victory could mean for Ukraine (1:07); Gus Carter argues that leaving the ECHR won’t fix Britain’s immigration system (8:29); Ruaridh Nicoll reads his letter from Havana (18:04); Tanya Gold provides her notes on toffee apples (23:51); and a selection of our books of the year from Jonathan Sumption, Hadley Freeman, Mark Mason, Christopher Howse, Sam Leith and Frances Wilson (27:08). 
 
Produced and presented by Patrick Gibbons.

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0:00.0

Subscribe to The Spectator today and make your prediction for the 2024 US election winner.

0:05.2

If you choose correctly, you'll receive a £30 pound Amazon gift card and the chance to win a case of Polrager Champagne.

0:11.2

Go to spectator.co.uk forward slash decide 24.

0:19.9

Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

0:24.4

Each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

0:29.7

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Christopher Corwell asks what a Trump victory could mean for Ukraine.

0:37.2

Gus Carter argues that leaving the ECHR won't fix Britain's immigration system.

0:42.4

As Havana faces an energy blackout, Ruri Nicol reads his letter from his adopted home.

0:48.2

Contemplating Halloween, Tanya Gold provides her notes on Toffee Apples.

0:52.4

And finally, a selection of our regular reviewers read their

0:55.8

books of the year. You can hear from Jonathan Sumption, Hadley Freeman, Mark Mason, Christopher

1:00.9

Howes, Sam Leith, and Francis Wilson. Up first, Christopher Caldwell. For American politicians,

1:10.2

all wars are two front wars.

1:12.9

There's a hot battlefield somewhere in the Middle East or the South China Sea,

1:17.5

and there's a political battlefield in Washington, D.C.

1:21.3

The domestic contest is decisive.

1:24.5

The same goes for Europe, with Joe Biden riding into the sunset and the presidential campaign

1:29.9

drawing to a close, American interest in Ukraine is winding down too. Europeans talking tough about

1:37.7

standing up to Russia had better be prepared to do so on their own. Donald Trump's campaign message, muddled though it is, bodes ill for the Ukrainian war effort.

1:51.1

His patience, he warns, would not extend 24 hours into his presidency.

1:57.3

For J.D. Vance, Trump's vice presidential nominee, the Ukraine war is a mistake the United States

2:03.6

should wash its hands of. How much of Ukrainian territory can be regained in any peace negotiations

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