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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud with me, Lyndon Kempkaren. 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, Kate Andrews talks crumbly concrete, overcrowded trains, NHS waiting lists and describes the general air of despair and asks, Who Broke Britain?

Katie Balls analyses Keir Stmer's reshuffle and describes the appearance of a new labour restoration as the party prepares for power.

And Max Pemberton outlines the worrying increase of Tourette's and ticks in children, neglected during lockdown and possibly damaged for life.

First, it's Kate Andrews. Did Jillian Keegan need to apologize? The Education Secretary

thought her ITV interview had ended and she could speak frankly. She insisted the school's

concrete crisis was down to everyone else who had sat on their arse. It was a fair point,

in elegantly expressed. It's been almost 25 years since the order first went out from Whitehall

to inspect schools and hospitals for crumbling-reinforced autoclaved air-rated concrete. When the roof

eventually collapsed at the single well primary school in Kent in 2018, the government sent out surveys

to inquire about building material, but that was largely it. Like lazy homeowners or dodgy

landlords, successive administrations assumed the problem would be dealt with by somebody else

at a later date. Then, days before the new term started this week, parents of pupils at more than 150 schools

were told it wasn't safe for their kids to return. Memories of stay-at-home messaging came back

in a flash. The blame can be spread. The SMP in Scotland and the Labour Party in Wales have only

just started the rack discovery process. But Rishi-Soonak's government is going to take the

brunt of the anger. After 13 years in power, the Tories must accept that voters aren't interested in root causes.

Every primary school student sent home this week was born under a conservative-led government.

The school roof's issue could be regarded as urgent yet manageable,

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