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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week we choose three pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Oscar Edmonton,

and on the podcast this week, James Heel reads his politics column, arguing that the Tories

should fear the Greens. Lisa Hazlodyne outlined some of the changes to Russia's school

curriculum in light of the war on Ukraine, and Neil Clark reads his piece about the joys of

non-league football. Up first, James Heel.

So far, Kier-Starmer has been unmoved by complaints from left-wingers,

as policies differ little from those of Boris Johnson's at the last election.

After all, if left-wing voters don't like his low-key approach, where else would they go?

The problem in British politics, as David Cameron found out,

is that disgruntled voters do find somewhere else to go. In Cameron's case, it was Nigel Farage.

In Stama's case, it may be to the Greens. Once dismissed as idealistic hippies, the Greens now

serve in seven governments across Europe, including Germany, Belgium and Scotland. Even under the

UK's majoritarian system, they're doing well with 800 council seats, or the Farage ever managed

in his prime. As Stalma edges away from the green agenda, urging Stikarn to stop the Uly's expansion,

he's taking a calculated risk. That getting rid of the green crab, as Tory strategist Linton Crosby

was said to have urged,

will shore up more working-class votes in the north, then it will risk urban votes in south.

But it's not without risks. The Greens came third in the 2021 London Merrill race,

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