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SJP approved 15th September. Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where each week we choose some of her favourite articles and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast, reporting from Tory Party Conference in Manchester, Tim Shipman says that the

real war for the right is yet to come. Ian Williams examines the farce over the collapsed China

espionage case. Theo Hobson argues that the Church of England is in a muddle over sex and marriage.

Lara Prendergast reads her letter from America, where she attended a party in honour of the

Spectators' US edition. And finally, Lisa Hazeldyne goes on manoeuvres with the German army, the

Bundeswere. Up first, Tim Shipman. British politics often resembles a golden age murder mystery,

with multiple parties sitting anxiously on the sofa slash green benches waiting

for the detective slash electorate to crack the case. The reform, Labour and Tory conferences

provided a plethora of clues. But just as Sherlock Holmes solved the adventure of the

silver blaze by divining the significance of the dog that didn't bark, just as much can be

learned from what didn't happen over the past few weeks.

First, there was no serious leadership challenge from the pretenders in Labour or the Conservatives.

Andy Burnham turned up in Liverpool with a knife between his teeth, only to discover he had

neither a seat nor the 80 parliamentary supporters needed to challenge Kirstama. His antics were so

counterproductive that when the Tories descended on

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