The Edition: Red Rishi

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

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On this week’s episode:

Price caps are back in the news as the government is reportedly considering implementing one on basic food items. What happened to the Rishi Sunak who admired Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson? In her cover article this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews argues that the prime minister and his party have lost their ideological bearings. She joins the podcast, together with Spectator columnist Matthew Parris, who remembers the last time price caps were implemented and writes about it in his column.

We also take a look at the experience of being addicted to meth. What is it like, and is it possible to turn your life around after that? The translator Eva Gaida has managed it, and writes powerfully about her experience in this week’s issue. She’s joined by drugs counsellor and Spectator World contributor, Kevin Dahlgren.

And finally, have the Irish lost their famous sense of humour? Melanie McDonagh writes that ‘the country of the fighting Irish, the drinking Irish, the self-deprecating humorous Irish, has turned into a kind of parody of liberal authoritarianism’. She joins the podcast now, together with Irish comedian and impressionist Oliver Callan.

Presented by William Moore and Lara Prendergast.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:44.3	Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.
0:48.5	I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.
0:50.7	And I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.
0:55.1	On this week's episode,
1:00.8	we'll be talking about Rishi Sunak's political makeover, hearing about the experience of meth addiction,
1:07.7	and asking whether the Irish have lost their sense of humour. First up, price caps are back in the news as the government is reportedly considering implementing one on basic food items.
1:13.2	So what happened to the Rishi Sunak who admired Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson?
1:18.0	In her cover article this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews argues that the Prime Minister and his party have lost their ideological bearings.
1:26.4	Kate joins the podcast now, together with
1:28.1	spectator columnist Matthew Parris, who remembers the last time price caps were implemented
1:32.7	and writes about it in this week's column. Kate, in your cover piece this week, you ask,
1:38.7	what kind of conservative is Rishi Sunak? Is the answer no longer clear? I don't think it is so clear. I think even just a
1:46.2	year ago, there was a very obvious answer. This was a fiscally hawkish chancellor who stayed awake
1:53.7	at night worrying about what was happening to the public finances. He was deeply frustrated to be
1:59.2	overseen by a heavy spending prime minister, Boris Johnson.
2:02.3	They were constantly sparring behind the scenes over borrowing and spending.
2:07.6	Rishi Seneck was one of the only politicians in this country to see the inflation crisis coming.
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