The Edition: Rip it up

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🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this week’s episode: Is it time to rip up the idea of vaccine passports?

In The Spectator’s cover story this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews writes about her disdain for the idea of vaccine passports after being exposed to their flaws first hand. She joins the podcast along with Professor Julian Savulescu from the University of Oxford. (01:01)

Also this week: Is Covid putting a spotlight on understudies?

In this week's Spectator, Sarah Crompton champions the understudy as one of the heroes of the pandemic. These are the community of stand-in actors who have kept productions alive during Covid. She is joined on the podcast by Chris Howell, understudy to Michael Ball in Hairspray last year and currently stand-in for Julian Clary at the Palladium, to discuss. (18:06)

And finally: Is being cancelled a badge of honour?

The comedian Stewart Lee announced his pedal bin list for the new year. Essentially people he wants to put in the bin. In The Spectator this week Julie Burchill who is on the list writes about her excitement to be featured. Joining the podcast are two others who made the list: journalist Martha Gill and Winston Marshall formally of the band Mumford and Sons, but who this year is joining The Spectator family with his new show, Marshall Matters. (28:59)

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0:27.6	Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them.
0:37.6	But from this week on we'll be doing so slightly differently.
0:40.7	There'll now be two of us hosting.
0:42.4	I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's Executive Editor.
0:45.0	And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.
0:47.8	For 2022, we'll be your co-hosts for the edition.
0:51.5	This week, is it time to rip up vaccine passports? Plus, is COVID putting a
0:56.6	spotlight on understudies? And finally, is being cancelled a badge of honour? First up, in the
1:02.9	spectator's cover story this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews writes about her disdain at the
1:07.9	idea of vaccine passports and says that it's time to rip them up.
1:11.8	She joins us now, along with Professor Julian Savulesco from the University of Oxford.
1:16.9	Kate, you write our cover story this week on the topic of vaccine passports, and you begin by
1:21.4	detailing an inconvenient incident at the airport. Can you start by explaining what exactly
1:26.0	happened? Sure, so I was one of the many
1:28.7	unlucky people who got COVID-19 in the run-up to Christmas and I ticked all the boxes I thought
1:36.0	you were supposed to tick. And indeed at the time, the guidance was that if you have symptoms,
1:40.4	if you test positive on a lateral flow, you obviously go into isolation and then you take
1:44.3	a PCR test later to confirm. Now, this has now been changed, but being a conscientious person,
1:51.2	I thought, well, go get my PCR. I know they're trying to track the new variant. Omicron. Seems like a
1:56.1	perfectly reasonable thing to do. Anyway, I was well over my isolation period. I was recovered and just
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