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Best of the Spectator

The Edition: Road to nowhere

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Will life ever return to normal? (00:50) Is the government pandering to statue protestors? (14:30) And what’s Prince Harry’s new job? (27:55)

With Kate Andrews, the Spectator's economics editor; Spectator columnist Matthew Parris; Spectator contributor Alexander Pelling-Bruce; Historic England CEO Duncan Wilson; Dominic Green, deputy editor of the Spectator's US edition; and Sam Leith, literary editor of the Spectator.

Presented by Lara Prendergast.

Produced by Max Jeffery, Cindy Yu and Arsalan Mohammad.

Transcript

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Hello and welcome to the edition.

0:28.4

Each week we look at some of the most important and intriguing issues in the week's magazine

0:32.8

with the writers behind them. I'm Laura Prendergast.

0:37.0

This week, will life ever return to normal?

0:42.0

Is the government pandering to statue protesters? And what's Prince Harry's new job?

0:50.7

First up, Boris Johnson promised that coronavirus restrictions would end on June the 21st,

0:57.3

but will they be replaced by a biosecurity state?

1:00.8

Kate Andrews writes our cover story this week, Roadmap to Nowhere,

1:04.4

and she joins me now, together with Matthew Paris,

1:07.1

who argues in his column that vaccine passports will give us our freedom back.

1:11.8

Kate, in your cover piece this week, you wonder where Boris's roadmap is taking us.

1:16.3

You say that a few weeks ago it seemed very clear.

1:18.8

Restrictions would end on the 21st of June.

1:21.4

But you say it's now changed.

1:22.4

What seems to have changed?

1:24.0

So the roadmap itself hasn't seen much change.

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