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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we take a look at some of the articles within the magazine with the writers behind them.

I'm Narra Prendergast, the Spectator's executive editor.

And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

Today we'll be asking whether Russia might turn off Germany's gas.

We'll also be looking at what relations are like between Prince Charles and Boris Johnson.

And finally, we'll be talking about sex parties. First up, I'm now joined by Wolfgang Munchao.

Wolfgang, in the magazine this week, you look at what might happen if Russia were to cut off gas supplies to Germany.

At this point, how likely does that seem as a prospect?

That's a good question.

I would consider this as a higher chance than people expect.

Still not my main scenario.

So I wouldn't think this is like an 80%

thing because, hey, we don't know what Putin is thinking. And he, you know, he may, after all, need

the money. This is, I mean, the idea of him cutting Germany off would cost him a lot of money.

And he has generally not used gas quite to that extent and his sort of reputation,

what do you want to call it, Putin having a reputation, his reputation is that of a real,

he is casting himself as a reliable supplier of gas.

So there are arguments for him not to do that.

However, there are very strong arguments for him to do it, which

is that Germany has already said they want to get, like everyone else, they want to get rid of

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