The Edition: Border farce
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
For this week’s cover piece, Kate Andrews and Max Jeffery report from Calais, where they have been talking with Ukrainian refugees hoping to make it to Britain. Kate joins the podcast along with former MEP Patrick O’Flynn to discuss the UK’s handling of the refugee crisis. (00:48)
Also this week: are commodity traders finding a moral compass?
In the wake of colossal sanctions on Russia are commodity traders feeling pressured to look more critically at the people they buy from? In this week’s issue, Javier Blas, Bloomberg’s commodities columnist and the co-author of The World for Sale, reveals what’s going on in the world of commodity trading. He joins the podcast along with Martin Vander Weyer who also writes about how effective these sanctions might be. (19:21)
And, finally: is offal making a macho comeback?
Gus Carter writes in The Spectator this week about offal. It’s having a comeback, he says, thanks to macho men following internet advice about what to eat. He joins the podcast with Natasha Lawson, T he Spectator’s designer and a keen organ fan, who bought in one of her favourite products for Lara, Gus and William to try. (30:19)
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, award-winning wealth managers who go above and beyond to support and guide you. |
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| 0:20.2 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:24.1 | Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Lara Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor. |
| 0:34.2 | This week is the UK dragging its heels when it comes to Ukrainian refugees. Plus, are commodity |
| 0:41.1 | traders finally finding a moral compass? And finally, how come awful is making a comeback? First up, |
| 0:49.3 | in this week's cover piece, Kate Andrews and Max Jeffrey report back from Calais, where they've been interviewing |
| 0:54.6 | Ukrainian refugees, hoping to make it to Britain. Kate joins me now, along with former MEP Patrick |
| 1:00.3 | O'Flynn, to discuss the UK's handling of the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Kate, in the magazine |
| 1:06.5 | this week, you write about your experience in Calais and the mounting pressure on the government |
| 1:10.6 | to let in more Ukrainian refugees. You got back from Calais this morning. What was your experience |
| 1:15.7 | there? So Max Jeffrey and our broadcast team and I drove out there on Monday evening. We decided to |
| 1:23.0 | go out there after Pretty Patel told her French counterpart and also the House of Commons that the |
| 1:28.2 | UK was not turning Ukrainian refugees around, that that was absolutely not happening, that they |
| 1:32.8 | were indeed welcome. And this didn't seem to add up with the numbers that we're seeing, |
| 1:38.5 | didn't seem to add up with the experiences of Ukrainian refugees that were starting to come out in |
| 1:42.7 | the media. So we got in a car, |
| 1:44.7 | we drove down to the Euro Tunnel, we went across to Calais, and it took genuinely mere moments |
| 1:50.0 | of officially arriving in Calais, getting out of the car, and walking into our hotel to |
| 1:54.5 | disprove the Home Secretary's claims. There we found seven Ukrainian refugees who had been turned |
| 1:59.6 | away at Paris. They weren't allowed to get on the train because they didn't have visas. |
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