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Best of the Spectator

The Edition: Drama queens

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode: 

We look ahead to Harry and Meghan’s UK tour next week, how will they be received? 

Freddy Gray and Tanya Gold join the Edition podcast to discuss (01:01). 

Also this week: 

In the Spectator magazine, our Economics Editor Kate Andrews sat down with the three economists, or 'Trussketeers', that are informing the would-be PM’s economic plan. 

She joins us along with Julian Jessop, one such economist that has been advising Liz Truss (13:51). 

And finally: can successful writers be friends with less successful ones? 

Cosmo Landesman asks this question in the magazine this week and is joined by the author Ian Rankin (27:07). 

Hosted by Lara Prendergast and William Moore. 

Produced by Oscar Edmondson. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

Visit can-dowealth.com for more information.

0:29.7

Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

0:32.9

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

0:35.6

And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's features editor.

0:39.5

On this week's episode, we look ahead to Harry and Megan's UK tour,

0:42.5

ask whether Trussonomics can tackle the cost of living,

0:47.1

and discuss whether successful writers can be friends with less successful ones.

0:50.0

First up, for the cover of the magazine this week,

0:53.5

Freddie Gray has written about Harry and Megan, who are back with a vengeance.

0:56.3

Freddie joins us now, along with Tanya Gold.

1:00.5

Freddie, what should we expect from the Sussex's upcoming UK tour?

1:06.2

Well, the last couple of weeks have given us perhaps a flavour of what's to come.

1:10.9

Megan seems to be sort of directing the Sussex show now.

1:13.2

She launched this podcast last week.

1:15.2

The first episode was with Serena Williams.

1:17.9

The episode this week was with Mariah Carey.

1:19.4

And it's called Arotypes.

1:24.0

It is, if you're a bit like me, horrendous to listen to.

1:26.0

It's really, really boring.

1:31.3

It's unbelievably cloying, self-pitying, pretends to be talking about archetypes, which is actually talking about stereotypes, and it's talking about,

1:36.7

really, the first episode was how Megan was victimised. The second episode was really about

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