The Edition: Biden's rodeo
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4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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With the Spectator's US editor Freddy Gray; our economics correspondent Kate Andrews; journalist Damian Reilly; veteran football reporter Julie Welch; Spectator contributor Hamish Scott; and Liz Fuller, a buildings at risk officer for Save Britain’s Heritage.
Presented by Lara Prendergast.
Produced by Max Jeffery and Sam Russell.
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| 0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. |
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| 0:24.5 | Hello and welcome to the edition. Each episode we look at some of the most important and intriguing issues from the week's magazine. I'm Laura Prendergast. |
| 0:35.9 | Joe Biden is approaching his first hundred days in office. |
| 0:39.6 | So, how has he fared and has he delivered on his promise to bring about a return to normalcy? |
| 0:45.7 | Plus, the proposed European Super League wasn't super after all. |
| 0:50.0 | The six English teams invited to join the league pulled out earlier this week, and the plans |
| 0:54.4 | have now been shelved, but will it still happen eventually? And finally, what's it really like |
| 1:00.1 | to live in a listed building? First up, Joe Biden will reach 100 days in office next week. |
| 1:06.7 | In this week's cover piece, Freddie Gray, our US editor, says that the president's gaffs and misspeaks |
| 1:11.7 | are getting him into trouble. To explain, I'm joined by Freddie and Kate Andrews, our economics editor, |
| 1:17.9 | who writes about the spending spree that's dominated his first few months in charge. |
| 1:21.9 | Freddie, in your cover piece this week, you write about Joe Biden's first hundred days in office. |
| 1:26.7 | How do you think they've gone? |
| 1:28.1 | On one level, I say it's been quite a big success. The vaccine rollout has gone very well. |
| 1:32.6 | The stimulus package has been very well received. People like being sent money, weirdly enough. |
| 1:38.2 | But as far as I'm concerned, there's this strange geriatric wokeness going on in the Biden presidency. |
| 1:45.2 | And we saw it this week with his statement about the Derek Chauvin trial before the jury |
| 1:50.1 | had reached a verdict. He decided to come out and say, I hope that the right verdict is made |
| 1:54.8 | and I think the evidence is overwhelming. There was no need for him to do that. He was just |
| 1:58.3 | trying to appeal to the Black Lives Matter activists who increasingly dominate his party and its ideology. |
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