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Thank you. Spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week we choose some of our favourite pieces

from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud. I'm Patrick Gibbons and on

this week's podcast, providing his reflections on 15

years in the editor's chair and with over 780 issues to his name, Fraser Nelson signs off as he

hands over to Michael Gove. Following a racially motivated attack, Cindy Yu examines growing hostility

in China to Japanese people. Mary Wakefield examines the dark truth behind the disturbing palico

rape case in France. Declaring this is the most difficult book he has taken on, Anthony Satin

reviews daybreak in Gaza, stories of Palestinian lives and cultures edited by the Jerusalem

bookseller Mahmoud Munah and British author Matthew Teller.

Satin says the collection of stories are extraordinary,

and whatever your view on the current crisis,

carry the promise of a new dawning.

And finally, Toby Young reveals the surprising truth

behind a coincidental dinner that took place last week

between none other than Fraser Nelson and Michael Gove.

Up first, Fraser Nelson. Michael Gave. Up first,

Fraser Nelson. In the late summer of 2009, Andrew Neal invited me to his villa in the Coat DeZure, but he didn't say why. I was mystified. Then I was political editor at the

spectator and in eight years of working pretty closely with Andrew, then he was

the magazine's chairman, he'd never even hinted that he saw me as an editor. I certainly didn't

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