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

Each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons on this week's podcast. Tom Slater says that Britain is having its own gilleggion moment.

With the publication of his new book, Captives and Companions, A History of Slavery in the Slave Trade,

Justin Morozy reads his historian's notebook.

Ibn Thranholm explains the spiritual rearmament happening in Denmark

and says it provides a lesson for the West. Angus Colwell speaks in praise of BBC Alba.

And finally, with the news that Pope Leo XIV might get some roomies, Philip Womack provides his

notes on flatmates. Up first, Tom Slater.

I heard you want your country back. Ha! Shut the fuck up! So yelped rap-punk duo Bob Villain

on stage at Glastonbury in June. That televised set became notorious for other reasons

for villains' chants of death, death to the IDF, which cost a group their agent, a string of shows,

and presumably another Glastow appearance.

But part of me thinks that Britain wouldn't have faced such a rest of summer, rocked by grassroots patriotic protests,

were it not for that cretinas tirade against the nation, that and the triumphant return of Oasis,

who certainly aren't afraid of a flag.

Everything that has happened since has felt like a defiant middle finger to the bobs and the anti-pleb sentiment

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