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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week we choose some of our favourite articles from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud. I'm Petra Gibbons and on this week's podcast, after a week that's included a deal with the EU

and a U-turn over the winter fuel allowance, James Heel analyzes the splits in the Labour Party

over direction and policy. Angus Colwell asks if the Lanyard class are the new enemy.

Historian and author of 18, a history of Britain in 18 young lives, Alice Lockstone explains why bite-sized histories have big appeal. Lloyd Evans

reports on how Butlands is cashing in on nostalgia. Richard Bratby reveals the work that

retrospect opera are doing, a non-profit label resurrecting the forgotten works of British opera.

Christopher Howes provides his notes on typos.

And lastly, Katrina Olding reflects on the death of her partner Jeremy Clark, one of the spectators' best love writers, two years ago this week.

Up first, James Heel.

Kirstama's appearance before Labour MPs on Monday was a crowded affair.

Such was the level of excitement that organised to set up an overspill room in Parliament.

A fortnight after a dire set of local election results, the Prime Minister promised to fight the next election as Labour.

Yet his troops seemed increasingly divided as to what that

actually means. More than two dozen MPs spoke of that meeting, criticising Stalmers Gaza policy,

migration speech and welfare cuts. It is those benefit changes that are causing the most immediate

grief to the government whips. Ministers want to restrict the eligibility requirements for disability

payments, meaning only

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