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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. I'm Frater Nelson.

Every week we ask a few of our writers to read their pieces from the magazine.

On this episode, Katie Balls talks about Scotland, not just the Stramash north of the border,

but how in number 10, infighting,

might even lose the Union. Then Matthew Lynn tells the story of the upcrash. Why have

markets been soaring while the economy has been tanking? And finally, and you really must listen to

this one, Craig Brown reads his fantastic review of Samantha Markle's memoir.

It's currently the most popular piece of a spectator website.

Pretty much everyone who's come on the website as Reddit.

And he talks about a memoir where, as he puts it, resentment oozes from every line.

First up, Katie Bowles.

At the stroke of 5 o'clock last Friday, the new head of

Number 10s Union unit was due to brief government aides on the robust new strategy to counter

the SMP. It was urgently needed. Campaining for the Scottish Parliament election starts in a few

weeks, and if Nicola Sturgeon wins a majority, as it looks likely, she'll demand another independence referendum.

If granted, all she finds a way free regardless of Westminster's response, she stands a chance of winning.

Any plan to say Britain must be put into action sooner rather than later.

But an hour so before the briefing, an email went around to say it was cancelled.

What's more, is author Oliver Lewis Lewis, had resigned, just two weeks into his job as head of the unit.

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