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Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Lara Prendergast and Andrew Wilson

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Douglas Murray is first, reflecting on the US election, and wondering why people who see the same thing can come to different conclusions. (00:51) Lara Prendergast is next, with her profile of the Prime Minister's fiancee, Carrie Symonds. (09:07) Finally, Andrew Wilson, who makes the case for an independent Scotland. (14:37)

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0:00.0

Get 12 weeks of The Spectator in print and online for just £12. And we'll give you a £20

0:06.6

£20, Amazon Give Voucher, absolutely free. Go to spectator. Loud, the podcast where a few of our favourite writers from each week's issue read out their pieces for you.

0:29.2

Douglas Murray kicks off this week's episode with his column on The Problem in America, or one of them, is how people see the same events but disagree on what they have just seen.

0:38.6

Then we'll hear from Lara Prendergast, who takes us inside the court of Carrie Simmons.

0:43.2

And at the very end, Andrew Wilson, on his article which you might not expect to find in a spectator in support of Scottish independence.

0:51.0

First, Douglas Murray.

0:52.8

Ever since I saw him in Pensacola, Florida the other week,

0:56.9

Donald J. Trump will not leave me alone. Each morning, I wake up, turn on my phone and find more

1:04.8

messages sent overnight. On just one morning this week, I rolled over to find emails from him titled, Chaos, Rigged, and We're Gaining Momentum. Another said, The Left hates you, Douglas. He doesn't know the half of it. Clearly, my email address has been shared, because in just one morning I also got emails from

1:30.1

Mike Pence, we're closer than ever, Eric Trump, and bewilderingly, for I cannot see what fresh

1:38.6

constituency she brings, Eric's wife, Lara.

1:44.4

Perhaps I shouldn't have handed over my details when signing up for the Pensacola rally.

1:50.2

I feel like one of those early users of the internet who actually responded to the Nigerian

1:55.9

emailers offering part ownership in a diamond mine.

2:00.7

Anyhow, even if you don't receive his emails,

2:04.0

you might have guessed by the desperation that Trump has lost the election.

2:10.0

Let's finish this thing is one of this morning's emails.

2:15.0

Yet it seems to me that the thing is finished already, with America now having

2:21.1

to pull off the most difficult, imaginable set of juggling tricks. The first thing to juggle is the fact

2:29.8

that there is plenty of evidence of electoral fraud. In the US, as in the UK, Witness Tower Hamlets,

2:38.1

the public are right to fear that mail-in ballots in particular

2:42.1

are a positive invitation to electoral malpractice.

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