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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud with me, Lyndon Ken Karen. Each week we choose our

favourite pieces from the magazine and ask our writers to read them aloud.

Coming up on the podcast this week, James Heel meets the Conservative London mayoral candidate Susan Hall,

who's ready and willing to take the fight to Sadiq Khan in next year's elections.

Melanie McDonough examines the effects on children's publishing as sensitivity readers gain more and more

influence. And Sam McPhail explains why football clubs could be in big trouble if fans start following

superstar players rather than the clubs. First up, it's James Heel. I love a fight. I was going to say

debate, but it's more of a fight, to be honest.

Susan Hall is looking forward to taking on Sadiq Khan at the London Merrill Hustings.

We meet for her first interview after securing the Conservative nomination.

It is five days after the Uxbridge by-election.

Hall is buoyed by an unexpected Tory triumph, thanks

to discontent with Kahn's plans to extend the ultra-low emission zone, U-LES.

Out on the doorstep, she tells me, I thought the questions would be all around Boris,

but they are nothing. It was all around the U-L's expansion. She hopes replicate a similar result next May.

Fight is one of Hall's favoured words. She uses it 14 times in less than an hour. It explains how she

went from being a 100 to one outsider to becoming the first woman nominated for the Merrill Tea

by a major party.

What does she make of the evening stand to splash which greeted that milestone,

featuring what one Tory MP called a contemptible image of hall grinning,

arms raised theatrically aloft?

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