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Hello and welcome to The Edition. The Spectator's weekly podcast discussing some of the most important and intriguing issues within our pages each week with the writers behind them.

I'm Cindy Yu.

This week, has Michael Bloomberg blown his presidential hopes with a disastrous TV debate?

Plus, has the BBC really gone downhill?

And last?

But I'm actually a journalist.

My name's Toby Young, or as someone on Twitter called me the other day, Captain Bellend.

I talked to Toby Young about no-holds-barred comedy.

First up, Donald Trump might be a multi-billionaire,

but his wealth is nothing compared to former mayor of New York,

Mike Bloomberg's $64 billion.

Bloomberg is in the running for Democratic nominee,

and Freddie Gray writes in this week's cover article

that he isn't afraid to chuck billions of his own dollars into his campaign.

So how serious of a threat is he to his democratic rivals and to Trump?

Freddie joins me now, and down the line we are joined from Oxford by former chair of Democrats

Abroad UK Bill Barnard.

Freddie, you write in your piece this week that Bloomberg's campaign is like an aggressive corporate buyout. So how

much of a serious contender is he in the democratic primaries? Well, as I put in the piece, Mark Hanna,

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