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🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this week's edition. |
0:12.7 | Each week we look at some of the most important and intriguing issues in the week's magazine |
0:17.0 | with the writers behind them. I'm Narra Prendergast. |
0:23.2 | This week, when did Boris become the nation's nanny? Plus, is the era of the angry chef over? And finally, cricket. What does |
0:30.6 | the new tournament, the 100, mean for the sport? First up, in the spectators' cover story this week, |
0:36.6 | our editor Fraser Nelson, takes our former editor and current Prime Minister Boris Johnson to task over his apparent abandonment of liberalism, particularly when it comes to vaccine passports, sugar taxes and high spending. |
0:50.2 | Fraser joins me now, along with Melanie Phillips, who, after living quite comfortably with vaccine |
0:54.7 | passports in Israel, can't see what Fraser is so worried about. |
0:58.2 | Fraser, it's Freedom Day supposedly coming up, but in your cover piece this week, you |
1:02.3 | describe it as a rather Orwellian term and say that it's freedom for some, but not all. |
1:07.3 | What exactly do you mean by that? |
1:08.9 | What I mean is vaccine passports. |
1:13.8 | As one of the caveats to the Freedom Day announcements, |
1:17.4 | we were told that companies are going to be encouraged to demand that their customers will show proof of vaccine certification. |
1:22.6 | So theatres, for example, might not let you buy a ticket |
1:25.1 | unless you've got proof of vaccination. |
1:28.3 | MSA might be true for sports venues, for nightclubs. In fact, the government is saying that it's encouraging |
1:34.5 | these institutions to ask for vaccine passports. Now, this would be quite a big change in our society. |
1:42.4 | And I go back to the great debate over ID cards in 2004. |
1:47.4 | Tony Blair wanted to bring them in. He was saying times have changed. We've got the technology. |
1:51.4 | We have a terrorist threat. And in order for everybody to live together more coherently, |
1:56.7 | it's time to give people ID cards, as you have in so many other countries. It was Boris Johnson who made the most eloquent and principled opposition to this |
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