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Thank you. Learn more at PMI.com slash progress. Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose some of our favorite pieces from the magazine

and ask their writers

to read them aloud. I'm Petra Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Svetlana Mornitz says that

Trump has given Selensky cause for hope. Michael Simmons looks at how the American healthcare system

keeps the NHS afloat. For now. Ursula Bucking explains how the spectator shaped her

ancestor, the writer John Buckin.

Reviewing Rosanna McLaughlin's Against Morality, Igor Toroni-Lallic argues that art is no place

for moralising. Richard Morris reveals how to access the many treasures locked away in private homes.

And finally, Mark Mason provides his notes on bank holidays, including who we have to thank for having them.

Up first, Svetlana Mornets.

On Volodemar Zelensky's last visit to the White House, he brought a gift, a championship belt from one of Ukraine's boxing legends.

But talks collapsed before the gift-giving stage.

This time, he brought a golf club

from a wounded soldier and a letter from Olena Zelenska, Ukraine's first lady, to Melania Trump.

Donald Trump not only accepted them but reciprocated with symbolic keys to the White House.

The exchange signaled that Trump, who once slammed the door on Ukraine, is now willing

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