The Edition: Can Britain, America and Australia contain China?
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🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Also this week: what can be done to save the Church of England’s parishes? Back in February, Emma Thompson, a rural parish volunteer, and the Reverend Marcus Walker, Rector of St Bartholomew the Great, London, wrote pieces for the Spectator expressing their concern for the future of the Church of England’s parish system. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York dismissed these concerns as scaremongering from ‘rascally voices’. Seven months on there is a new threat to the parish, which Emma writes about in this week’s magazine. She is joined by Marcus on the podcast to explain what you can do to save your local church.
And finally: in a time when travel has never been faster, why has so little been done to reform queues? This is the question Harry Mount asks in the magazine this week. He sits down with me now, with the Spectator’s Wiki Man columnist, Rory Sutherland to pitch some transformative ideas on how to update this very British pastime. (29:10)
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| 0:17.3 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:21.3 | Every week, we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue and the writers behind them. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm William Moore, the Spectators Features Editor. |
| 0:32.1 | This week, can the new Orcus Alliance contain China? |
| 0:37.2 | Plus, what can be done to save the Church of England's parishes? |
| 0:41.4 | And finally, is there a way to end queuing? |
| 0:45.8 | First up, in his cover piece this week, James Fulcith writes that the New Orcus Pact |
| 0:51.2 | has fixed the contours of the next 30 years of British foreign policy. |
| 0:56.3 | Britain, he says, is no longer trying to stay neutral in the competition between America and China. |
| 1:02.6 | Also writing in the magazine this week, Francis Pike, author of Empires at War, |
| 1:07.9 | a short history of modern Asia since World War II, gives the case against |
| 1:13.3 | Orcus. They both join me now. James, in your cover piece for the magazine, you write about the |
| 1:20.3 | new Orcus pact between the US, the UK and Australia. Can you summarise briefly what that |
| 1:27.2 | alliance entails? |
| 1:29.1 | So essentially, Australia has a very close trading relationship with China, and Australia had |
| 1:35.6 | managed to avoid having to make a choice between its US Security Alliance and its economic |
| 1:40.2 | alliance with China. It was managing to ride two horses at once. That was becoming more |
| 1:44.6 | difficult. You had the decision on Huawei, where Australia were quite early and saying that they |
| 1:48.8 | didn't want them involved in the construction of their 5G network. And then you had a coronavirus |
| 1:53.8 | when the Australians call for an independent inquiry into its origins. That, for reasons that I will |
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