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Spectator Out Loud: Dominic Green, Tanya Gold, Lionel Shriver and Bruce Anderson

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.3826 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, the Spectator's deputy US editor, Dominic Green, argues that if Joe Biden departs from Donald Trump’s foreign policy, American interests will be harmed. (01:00) After, Tanya Gold reads her interview with Belle Delphine, the 21-year-old who earns more than $1 million a month from videos she posts online. (13:25) Lionel Shriver features next; she says that nobody wins from identity politics. (20:00) And finally, Bruce Anderson explains why you can’t trust supermarket cheese. (28:45)

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

voucher at www.w.com.uk forward slash voucher.

0:16.6

Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week, we ask a few of our brilliant writers

0:24.3

to read up their piece from the magazine. This week, Dominic Green, the Spectator's Deputy

0:29.9

U.S. editor, looks at whether Joe Biden will build on or unravel Donald Trump's foreign policy.

0:36.0

Choosing the latter would represent a win for Arrant Wokery, he says.

0:40.8

Tanya Gold also features.

0:42.8

She reads her interview with Belle Delphine, a pink-haired, 21-year-old online sensation,

0:47.9

who earns more than a million dollars a month from the videos she posts online.

0:52.6

Our columnist Lionel Shriver is on after, arguing that no one wins

0:56.0

from identity politics. Finally, Bruce Anderson reads his drinks column and explains where you

1:01.8

can't trust supermarket cheese. First up, Dominic Green. Joe Biden talks a lot about restoring

1:09.0

America's standing in the world, but the awkward truth

1:12.4

is that if he now has the chance to reshape America's relationships for a new era, it's because

1:18.2

Donald Trump has already done the awkward stuff. The question is, can Biden and his team swallow

1:25.4

their collective pride and build on Trump's legacy,

1:28.8

or will vanity and partisanship send the American Atlas tumbling to his knees?

1:35.2

Trump won the 2016 elections by forcing the difficult questions onto the national agenda.

1:42.0

In office, he developed an alternative to the spent consensus of the 1990s,

1:47.4

call it vulgar realism, the lowest common denominator of American interest.

1:52.8

He named and shamed the self-dealing swamp creatures of Washington, D.C., corrupt politicians,

1:59.9

complacent bureaucrats, thoughtless think-tankers,

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