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🗓️ 31 March 2022

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In this week’s episode: Is Biden’s approach to the war in Ukraine more calculating than it seems?

For this week’s cover piece, in this week’s cover piece, Matt Purple examines Biden’s response to the situation in Ukraine. The good, the bad and the gaffs. He joins the podcast along with the founder of Political Human Emma Burnell. (00:52)

Also this week: How many of Ukraine’s churches have been destroyed?

In this week’s issue, Christopher Howse writes poignantly on the destruction of Ukrainian churches and how Vladimir Putin, a man claiming to be a defender of Christianity is desperate to keep the images of destroyed holy sites out of the news. He joins the podcast along with the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Great Britain, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas Loulias. (11:26)

And, finally: 40 years on from the Falklands War, why are there still tensions over the islands?

It has been 40 years since the war between the UK and Argentina over the Falklands and in this week’s Spectator Robert Taylor writes about the impact that conflict still has on the territory. He joins the podcast along with native Argentinian and Professor of International Law of The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Marcelo G. Kohen. (22:43)

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0:18.7	Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.
0:22.4	Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them.
0:28.7	I'm William Moore, the Spectators Features Editor.
0:31.4	And I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.
0:34.8	This week.
0:36.1	Is Biden's approach to the war in Ukraine more calculating than it seems?
0:41.0	Plus, how many of Ukraine's churches have been destroyed? And finally, 40 years on from the Falklands War,
0:48.1	why are there still tensions over the islands? First up, in this week's cover piece, Matt Purple examines Biden's response to the
0:57.8	situation in Ukraine, the good, the bad, and the gaffs. He joins us now with the founder of
1:04.4	political human Emma Bernal. Matt, in your cover piece this week, you argue that Biden's off-script remarks about Putin
1:13.5	actually sum up the entire Biden approach to the Ukraine crisis. Could you explain for our
1:19.9	listeners why you think that is? Yeah, well, first of all, I just think there isn't a Joe Biden
1:24.2	without the tendency to gaffe. I mean, it's almost the most determinative thing about
1:27.9	him. He's always going to say something that's going to undermine the company line or that's going to
1:33.1	pull the rug out from under himself a little bit. And I don't even think that's that controversial a thing to
1:37.6	say. He's admitted that as much himself. He said, I am a gaff machine and, you know, power to him for being aware of his flaws on that.
1:46.4	But yeah, I mean, I, it was a candid remark.
1:49.4	And I don't think it was necessarily a very destructive remark per se.
1:53.3	I mean, I have a difficult time imagining how this ends unless Putin is taken out from within.
1:58.3	It just seemed like kind of a moment of honesty for him. But that being said,
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