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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. Every week we take a look at

some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them.

I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.

This week, is there any substance to the government's new drugs agenda?

Plus, can Islam save Britain's churches?

And finally, are we witnessing the twilight of the necktie?

First up, in The Spectator this week, Fraser Nelson

writes the cover story on the government's new 10 years drugs plan and finds that while on the

surface it seems like a new war on drugs, it might actually have some thoughtful and effective policies

buried within it. Fraser joins me now, along with Christopher Snowden, the head of lifestyle

economics at the Institute of Economic

Affairs. Fraser, in your cover piece this week, you look at the government's new war on drugs.

Why do you think they've launched all these policies this week? Well, this was always going to

be Crime Week, where the government was going to announce something has been thinking about

for quite some time. It was Theresa May, who asked Dame

Carroll Black at Cambridge Academic, to oversee a huge review about what's gone wrong with Britain's

drug policy. That review is one of the most impressive documents I've ever read coming out from

the government, written incredibly clearly, and it exposed that many, many ways in which Britain has become Europe's

drugs hotspot with more people dying in the street from drugs overdoses than ever before.

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