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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Every week we take a look at some of the most intriguing and important issues within our pages

with the writers behind them.

I'm Cindy Yu.

This week, we take a look at the Spector that's still haunting the Chancellor, even as it sets out his new budget.

We also take a look at the growing normalisation of sectarianism on the island of Ireland,

intriguingly through the form of TikTok.

And finally, what makes a great diarist and what makes Henry Chipp's Channon's diary so compelling to read?

First up, it seems like the Chancellor's second budget has gone down relatively well,

but Kate Andrews, the spectator's economics correspondent, writes in this week's cover article

about the spectator that still haunting the Chancellor. She joins me now, together with

economist Julian Jessop, formerly chief economist at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

So Kate, can you tell us about what's keeping

the Chancellor up at night? Well, a lot of people in the weeks leading up to the budget were

discussing potential tax hikes that the Chancellor might bring in as something that he would do

to pay down the debt. I know Julian has issues with that phrase, which perhaps he can speak to, but either

way, it was a misunderstanding of what was actually weighing on the chancellor's mind when crafting

this budget, because in truth, he had a far more immediate concern. And that was that these very

agreeable conditions for borrowing might change. And even if they were to change ever so slightly, you see a very

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