The Edition: Is it over?

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

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In this week’s episode: Is Boris Johnson done for?

In this week’s Spectator cover story, our political editor James Forsyth and our deputy political editor Katy Balls write about Boris Johnson’s perilous position in the aftermath of the Partygate scandal. They join the podcast to predict the Prime Minister’s fate. (00:40)

Also this week: Is there a dangerous side to self-improvement?

The hashtag manifesting has had billions of impressions on social media in the last year. Younger generations love it and Mary Wakefield explores this viral phenomenon in her column this week. She joins the podcast along with Ally Head, the health and sustainability editor for Marie Claire UK who has interviewed a number of manifestation experts. (14:36)

And finally: how attractive are your feet?

Kate Andrews, the Spectator’s economics editor, made an unusual discovery at the end of last year. Pictures of her in flip flops had made it onto a particular website, Wikifeet – ‘the internet’s largest collaborative celebrity feet website’. Kate wrote about her surprising discovery in this week’s magazine, and she joins the podcast along with Theresa Bedford, a personal finance and investing expert who has written about the best ways to sell pictures of your feet online. (28:59)

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, award-winning wealth managers who go above and beyond to support and guide you.
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0:15.7	Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.
0:19.5	Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue and the writers behind them.
0:25.4	I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.
0:28.1	And I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.
0:31.7	This week, is Boris Johnson done for?
0:34.4	Plus, is there a dangerous side to self-improvement?
0:37.8	And finally, how attractive are your feet?
0:40.7	First up, in this week's spectator, our political editor James Forsyth and our deputy political
0:45.9	editor, Katie Balls, write about Boris Johnson's perilous position in the aftermath of
0:50.4	the party gate scandal.
0:52.0	They join us now to predict the Prime Minister's fate.
0:54.6	James.
0:55.2	The cover of the spectator this week shows Boris Johnson crashed headfirst into the ground
1:01.1	and the headline is a question, the question of the week, I think.
1:05.7	So I think it's the question that we'd better start with.
1:08.6	Is it over?
1:10.3	I think with the first time in Boris Johnson's premiership,
1:14.0	his fate is out of his hands. You know, it doesn't matter what he does now. It's other forces
1:19.9	that determine whether or not he survives. And I think you can identify three of those forces, right? So
1:27.3	the first is, what does Sue Gray's report say?
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