The Edition: Court of Chaos

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this week’s episode: Who is advising the PM?

In our cover story this week, our editor Fraser Nelson takes a deep dive into No. 10 politics and finds a court of chaos inside. With a large parliamentary majority, an extremely young team and the departure of Domonic Cummings is there anyone left in the Conservative party who can stand up to the Prime Minister? Fraser talks on the podcast with former Conservative party chairman, Kenneth Baker on the reign of King Boris. (00:45)

Also this week: Should the West be prepared to defend Taiwan?

Tensions over the island of Taiwan are rising at an alarming rate. In The Spectator this week Alessio Patalano, professor of war and strategy at King’s College, and Elbridge Colby, author of Strategy of Denial, both write about what the West can do to defend Taiwan’s autonomy. On the podcast, Alessio and Elbridge talk further about the future of this disputed territory. (17:09)

And finally: How do you join the world of underground chess?

One of the world’s oldest games is making something of a comeback, with underground chess clubs starting up all over the world. Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, CEO of UK music, writes about this phenomenon in this week’s Spectator. He joins the podcast along with Nick Moar, The Spectator’s social media editor and chess enthusiast to discuss their favourite pastime. Nick and James are also joined by the grandmaster himself, Malcolm Pein who wanted in on the fun. (30:56)

Hosted by Lara Prendergast

Produced by Sam Holmes

Subscribe to The Spectator today and get a £20 Amazon gift voucher:

www.spectator.co.uk/voucher

Listen to Lara’s food-based interview show, Table Talk:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/tabletalk

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, award-winning wealth managers who go
0:06.2	above and beyond to support and guide you. Visit can-dowealth.com to start building your wealth with confidence.
0:19.3	Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.
0:23.6	Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them.
0:30.0	I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.
0:33.2	This week, who exactly is advising the Prime Minister?
0:37.1	Plus, should the West be prepared to defend Taiwan?
0:40.5	And finally, how do you join the world of underground chess?
0:44.9	First up, in our cover story this week, our editor Fraser Nelson takes a deep dive into number
0:49.8	10 politics and finds a court of chaos inside.
0:53.6	With a large parliamentary majority, an extremely
0:56.1	young team, and the departure of Dominic Cummings, is there anyone left in the Conservative
1:00.4	Party who can stand up to the Prime Minister? Fraser joins me now, along with former Conservative
1:05.2	Party chairman, Kenneth Baker, to discuss the reign of King Boris.
1:15.0	Fraser, you start your cover piece this week by saying that Tory MPs have started to notice what you call a worrying pattern in the Prime Minister's behaviour.
1:18.5	What exactly have they started to notice?
1:20.8	Well, this isn't the first time that Boris Johnson has marched them up to the top of the hill
1:25.2	only to march them down again.
1:26.8	There is a pattern now
1:28.6	where number 10 will take a bold decision and it will fight until such times as it works out
1:34.4	it probably shouldn't have picked the fight in the first place, but it performs a U-turn and it looks
1:38.8	shambolic. We see this several times. We saw it over, for example, most famously with the free school
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Spectator, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Spectator and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.