The Edition: Bombshell
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The Spectator
4.3 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson writes The Spectator’s cover piece, urging the West to supply more military assistance to Ukraine, in order to bring a swift end to the war. Former commander of the joint forces Sir Richard Barrons and The Spectator’s Svitlana Morenets join the podcast to ask why aren't we giving Ukraine what it needs? (01:21)
Also on the podcast:
Charlie Taylor, His Majesty’s chief prisons inspector, writes in the magazine about the state of crisis in British prisons. This is in light of Daniel Khalife's escape from Wandsworth prison last week. Charlie is joined by David Shipley, commentator and former inmate at Wandsworth to discuss the state of crisis in British prisons. (16:37)
And finally:
In the arts section of the magazine Rod Liddle writes about the new Rolling Stones single, supposedly their best in decades. He joins the podcast alongside Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic at the Times to debate whether rock and roll really is dead. (25:34)
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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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| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:34.6 | Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm Laura Brenda Garst, the Spectator's Executive Editor. |
| 0:42.2 | And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:45.2 | On this week's episode, we'll be asking, why aren't we giving Ukraine what it needs? |
| 0:50.2 | We'll be discussing the state of crisis in His Majesty's prisons, and we'll be debating where the |
| 0:56.0 | Rolling Stones sit in the pantheon of rock and roll. |
| 1:00.0 | First up, Boris Johnson writes the spectator's cover piece this week, in which he urges |
| 1:05.0 | the West to supply more military assistance to Ukraine in order to bring about a swift end to the war. |
| 1:12.2 | Sir Richard Barons, the former commander of the Joint Forces Command, joins me now with the |
| 1:17.7 | spectators Svetlana Mornitz to discuss his peace. Richard, Boris Johnson accuses the West of dragging |
| 1:25.9 | its feet and not supplying enough weaponry to Ukraine |
| 1:29.3 | quickly enough. Do you agree? No, I agree, but I think it's more complicated than that, |
| 1:35.0 | because this war is in transition from the support that could be provided from the things the West |
| 1:41.5 | had on the shelf in their industry and their government armories, to the |
| 1:45.8 | point we've reached now where the only way of supplying Ukraine with enough weapons, ammunition |
| 1:51.5 | and other material is through the mobilization of defense industry. And the mobilization |
| 1:56.4 | of defense industry has not proceeded fast enough in order to maintain either the flow or the |
| 2:02.1 | quantity of stuff that's required, and that is imposing a significant drag on Ukraine's ability |
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