The Edition: Judgment call
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The Spectator
4.3 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Lord Sumption makes the case for leaving the ECHR in The Spectator's cover piece. He says that the UK has strong courts and can pass judgement on human rights by itself and joins the podcast alongside Dr Joelle Grogan – legal academic and head of research at UK in a Changing Europe – to discuss whether the Strasbourg has lost its appeal. (01:22).
Also this week:
Rory Sutherland takes a look at the rise of dynamic pricing in the magazine, a new trend where prices can surge at peak times and a phenomenon which has now made its way into pubs. He says that it’s not necessarily the cost that matters, but the way it is framed and is joined by Times business columnist Ryan Bourne to debate. (17:10)
And finally: is a Guardian Blind Date the most effective way of finding love?
This is the question that Lloyd Evans wonders in his piece for the magazine, detailing his experience being set up by the national newspaper. He joins the podcast alongside journalist Cosmo Landesman, whose dating columns I’m sure many listeners will remember. (33:02).
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| 0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. |
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| 0:30.1 | 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. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Lara Prendergars, the Spectator's Executive Editor. |
| 0:42.2 | And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:44.8 | On this week's episode, we'll be looking at whether it's time for Britain to leave the |
| 0:48.9 | European Court of Human Rights. We'll be discussing if dynamic pricing is the future, and we'll be asking whether |
| 0:55.8 | a guardian blind date really is the best way to find love. First up, Lord Sumption makes the case |
| 1:02.1 | for leaving the ECHR as the cover for the magazine this week. He says that the UK has strong courts |
| 1:08.9 | and can pass judgment on human rights by itself. |
| 1:12.5 | He joins us now alongside Dr. Joel Grogan, legal academic and head of research at UK in a changing Europe. |
| 1:20.8 | Joel, before we jump in to Lord Sumption's case, could you take us through what the European Court of Human Rights is and who it seeks to |
| 1:30.7 | protect? |
| 1:32.7 | Certainly. As a first introduction, the European Court of Human Rights is the International |
| 1:39.3 | Courts which upholds the European Convention on Human Rights. So the European Convention on Human Rights is an international human rights treaty |
| 1:49.0 | that protects the rights of everyone in the 46 states that are part of the Council of Europe. |
| 1:55.0 | I should say we should not confuse this with the European Union, |
| 1:59.0 | which is a different body of members. |
| 2:01.6 | But the European Court of Human Rights is tasked with hearing cases that go up from member states of the Council of Europe, so from those 46 countries, and they decide whether or not rights have been violated. |
| 2:16.6 | The court is made up of one judge |
| 2:19.8 | that is elected from every member state of the Council of Europe. And Lord Sumption, you say in your |
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