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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week, we choose some of our

favourite pieces from a magazine

and ask their writers to read them aloud. I'm Patrick Givens and on this week's podcast,

pondering her decision to appear on Celebrity SAS, Rachel Johnson reads her diary for the week.

As the debate around political freebies continues, James Heel analyzes the true value of Labour peer,

Lord Ali. As the crisis

in the Middle East continues to escalate, Paul Wood questions if Israel is trying to drag America

into a war with Iran. Reviewing want, sexual fantasies, collated by Gillian Anderson, Rowan

Pelling wonders whether some sexual fantasies should never be shared.

And finally, Graham Thompson explores the ethics behind the publication of new music posthumously.

Up first, Rachel Johnson.

Use, a train cleaner in rubber glove says as we arrive at Liverpool Lime Street.

What are you doing here? He's grinning and holding up the political journalists

and delegates dribbling from the Houston train

like a leaky hose.

Behind me waits Tim Shipman,

the consummate chronicler of conservative political chaos.

I once sent Shippers a photograph of me, sitting between my

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