The Edition: Country strife
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4.3 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It’s a special episode of the Edition podcast because our very own William Moore writes The Spectator’s cover piece, on how rural pursuits are being threatened by lawfare from countryside groups. Jonathan Roberts, who leads the external affairs team at the Country Land and Business Association, joins us to discuss whether disillusioned rural Tories could look to Labour at the next election.
Also this week:
In his piece in The Spectator, journalist Andrew Kenny writes about the rise of Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters. He warns that South Africans should beware its new rising political star and joins the podcast alongside Ernst Roets, author of Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa’s Brutal Farm Murders.
And finally:
Could testosterone be the missing piece in HRT treatments for menopause symptoms? This is what The Spectator’s Linden Kemkaran investigates in the magazine and she joins us alongside Dr Sarah Ball, GP and Menopause Specialist.
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| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. I'm William Moore, |
| 0:39.3 | Spectator's Features Editor. And I'm Laura Prendergast, the Spectator's Executive Editor. On this |
| 0:44.8 | week's episode, we'll be talking about the covert campaign against field sports, South Africa's |
| 0:50.5 | new villain, and whether testosterone could be the miracle cure for menopause symptoms. |
| 0:56.0 | First up, it's a special episode of the edition today because our very own William Moore |
| 1:00.7 | has written the cover piece on how rural pursuits are being threatened by lawfare from |
| 1:05.7 | countryside groups. We're also joined by Jonathan Roberts, who leads the external affairs team at the Country, Land and Business Association. |
| 1:14.4 | So, Will, it's your turn in the firing line today. Can you start by outlining who's on both sides of this |
| 1:20.0 | covert war that you speak of against the countryside? Yeah, so what is sort of interesting about it is, |
| 1:26.1 | as you say, it's a bit of a covert |
| 1:28.3 | that's going on in contrast to, you know, when there was this big all-out open assault |
| 1:33.7 | on a field sport, on hunting, 20 years ago during the Blair Premiership. |
| 1:40.9 | And what's happened since is more of a sort of death by a thousand cuts to field sports |
| 1:46.1 | are kind of chipping away a ever-increasing regulatory burden that makes it much harder to participate |
| 1:54.4 | in field sports. So they are still legal but are being made increasingly difficult, almost |
| 2:00.7 | impossible in some cases. |
| 2:04.0 | And there's two problems with all these regulations that are being put on top. |
| 2:08.2 | One is one of execution, and one is about intent. |
| 2:12.1 | So just to begin with execution, I write about my piece about how there was emergency changes to general licensing, |
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