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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 Edmondson, and on this week's podcast, Kate Andrews laments how Trust is hurting the free market cause.

Anthony Whitehead explains the arrogance, or so he says, of the new environmental activist movement tire extinguishes.

And finally, Michael Simmons reads his notes on barcodes.

Up first, Kate Andrews.

In theory, I should be delighted about the Liz Trust Project.

She is saying the things I've been arguing for years,

talking not just about lower taxes, but about basic liberty and how it relates to everyday life.

She's passionate about these ideas, and sincere.

I remember watching her deliver a rallying cry, a salute to the quote, Airbnb, deliveroo eating, Uber-riding freedom fighters.

This was just over three years ago when she was a Treasury minister.

Her speeches were getting punchier and her one-liners becoming newsworthy and memorable.

She was turning into one of the most recognizable faces of classical liberalism in Britain,

a development which clearly delighted her.

Trust asked for this job.

I don't mean the job of party leader or prime minister, though she asked for that too.

I mean the job of the UK's free market revolutionary.

It's too early to say with confidence where this all went wrong, but I suspect it can be

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