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Hello and welcome to the edition. The Spectators look at some of the most intriguing and important issues within the week's magazine.

I'm Laura Prendergast. On this week's episode, Joe Biden is now president of the United States, but can he unite the country and what will his first few weeks in office look like?

Plus, the UK's vaccine rollout is now in full swing. How will its success improve our economic outlook, and could some COVID restrictions

be lifted as soon as February?

And finally, what makes an authentic historical reenactment?

First up, Joe Biden this week became the 46th President of the United States.

In this week's cover piece, our economics correspondent

Kate Andrews assesses his chances of finding the center ground and uniting the country. To discuss,

she joins me now, together with Freddie Gray, the Spectator's US editor, who writes in the magazine

about Biden marks the return of gaff prone presidents. Kate, in your cover piece this week, you write about

what we can expect from a Biden presidency. But before we get onto that, it was the inauguration

yesterday. What did you make of it? Well, Joe Biden was echoing the sentiment that he has been

putting forward since he won the election in November, and that is that he wants to unify the

country. He doubled down in

the inauguration. He made clear that he would be a president for all Americans, including the ones

who didn't vote for him, repeated his message of unity really over and over again. And I think

it speaks to the fact that, you know, at any point of governing, any piece of legislation is just

going to come secondary

in his term to bringing the country back together. The social fabric of the nation is very much in

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