The Edition: Cornered
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The Spectator
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
For the cover of the magazine, Paul Wood asks whether Putin could actually push the nuclear button in order to save himself?
He is joined by The Spectator’s assistant online editor Lisa Haseldine, to discuss (01:03).
Also this week:
Why is there violence on the streets of Leicester?
Douglas Murray writes about this in his column this week and we speak to journalist Sunny Hundal and research analyst Dr Rakib Ehsan about what’s caused the disorder (13:44).
And finally:
Is three – or more – a crowd?
Mary Wakefield discusses the poly-problems or polyamory in her column in The Spectator and is joined by comedian Elf Lyons, who has written about her experience of polyamory before (26:46).
Hosted by Lara Prendergast and William Moore.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Can Accord Genuity Wealth Management, experienced wealth planners and investment managers who offer unwavering support in challenging times. |
| 0:10.0 | Visit can-dowealth.com for more information. Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where every week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Laura Prendergast, the Spectator's executive editor. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:35.5 | On this week's episode, we'll be talking about Putin's threats of |
| 0:38.8 | nuclear war, the violence breaking out in Leicester, and whether Polly Amory is the way forward. |
| 0:45.1 | First up, for his cover piece in this week's issue, Paul Wood asks whether Putin will push the |
| 0:49.7 | nuclear button in order to save himself. He joins us now, along with the spectator's assistant online editor |
| 0:55.4 | Lisa Hasldyne, who has this week been speaking to some of the 70 Russian councillors who have |
| 1:00.3 | signed a petition calling for Putin to be removed from office. Paul, we're recording this on |
| 1:05.3 | Wednesday afternoon, but this morning the Russian president issued a statement saying that he's |
| 1:10.6 | not bluffing when it |
| 1:12.2 | comes to using nuclear weapons, as well as calling up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine. |
| 1:18.3 | So I'm afraid my first question is, is rather a heavy one. Are we heading for nuclear war? |
| 1:25.0 | There's no yes or no answer to that, is there? He's probably bluffing. |
| 1:28.4 | It would take a madman to actually want to instigate nuclear war between Russia and NATO. |
| 1:33.6 | But just in case we didn't get the message in Putin's dramatic, almost slightly unhinged speech, |
| 1:40.3 | we had people like the editor-in-chief of Russia today, who's a Kremlin mouthpiece, saying |
| 1:45.1 | we either win in eastern Ukraine or we have nuclear war. There is no third option. Everything about |
| 1:51.7 | this speech was dramatic. First of all, it didn't happen on Tuesday night as advertised, and all |
| 1:57.0 | sorts of rumours were flying around. Putin was ill. Putin had been deposed. The best |
| 2:01.6 | interpretation I had of the delay was that he had wanted to call for a full mobilisation, |
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