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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

On this week's episode, we'll be discussing Europe's escalating migrant crisis,

learning about Australia's controversial voice referendum,

and asking why some churches rise and others fall.

First up, Christopher Caldwell writes in the cover story this week

about Italy's new wave of migrants, which he says will upend European politics.

He joins me now, along with Amy Kazmin, Rome correspondent for the Financial Times.

Chris, I want to get onto the ways in which you say the

enormity of this migrant crisis will upend European politics. But first, could you get our

listeners up to speed with the situation in Lampedusa? Well, I can tell you how it stood yesterday

or a couple of days ago, which is that Lampedusa is very far south in Italy.

There are parts of, you know, there are some places in Africa from which migrants travel southeast to get to Lampedusa.

So it's tucked down into that bay, you know, between Tunisia and and, and, and,

and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

Italy has got a lot of migrants this year. It's got about 130,000 migrants this

year. And last week, in the course of about five days, you had 11,000 landings in Lampedusa, which alarmed a lot of people

and brought Georgia Maloney, the premier there, along with Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the

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