The Edition: Six more years
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray writes the cover piece looking ahead to the possibility of another 6 years of President Biden. He is joined by Amie Parnes, senior staff writer at The Hill and co-author of Lucky: How Joe Biden barley won the presidency, to discuss whether anyone can stop Biden running in 2024 (01:00).
Also this week:
In the magazine Fr Patrick Burke writes a moving tribute to Pope Benedict XVI. He joins the podcast to discuss Benedict’s intellectual legacy and what the Church gained from his theological work (16:05). We are also very lucky to have a special recording from Melanie McDonagh who dials in from St Peter’s Square to give her reflections on the late Pope’s funeral (29:43).
And finally:
In her article for The Spectator this week Tanith Carey, author of Never Kiss a Man in a Canoe: Words of Wisdom from the Golden Age of Agony Aunts, writes in celebration of the high-handed and unflinching advice of Victorian agony aunts. She is joined by The Spectator’s own agony aunt Mary Killen – aka Dear Mary – to consider whether today’s agony aunts are going soft (33:32).
Hosted by William Moore.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Can Accord Genuity Wealth Management, experienced wealth planners and investment managers who offer unwavering support in challenging times. |
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| 0:17.1 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:25.0 | Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:32.6 | On this week's episode, I'll be talking about the future of Joe Biden, |
| 0:36.6 | the intellectual legacy of Pope Benedict |
| 0:38.4 | the 16th, and the rise and fall of agony aunts. First up, in his cover piece for the magazine, |
| 0:45.7 | Freddie Gray asks whether anyone can stop Joe Biden running for a second term in 2024. He joins me |
| 0:52.1 | now, alongside Amy Parns, senior staff writer at the Hill, and co-author of |
| 0:57.2 | Lucky, how Joe Biden barely won the presidency. Freddie, to start with, in your piece, you say that |
| 1:03.6 | six months ago there were rumours in democratic circles that Biden might not run for a second |
| 1:09.7 | term. However, now, the prevailing view in Washington is that Biden might not run for a second term. However, now the prevailing view in Washington |
| 1:12.6 | is that Biden will run for re-election. Why has the mood changed? Well, as I also said, the piece, |
| 1:19.2 | I think the prevailing view in Washington is almost either always either wrong or a lie. So you |
| 1:25.8 | have to bear that in mind. But certainly, I've been speaking to |
| 1:28.9 | people in Washington in the summer and then before that, actually. And actually, ever since |
| 1:33.2 | Joe Biden became president, there has been this will he, won't he, stand again question. Will he |
| 1:38.3 | run again in 2024? And the answer a while ago I'd get from various people who know Democratic Party inside and out |
| 1:46.4 | is that they thought, yes, they would, he probably would be persuaded to move aside. |
| 1:52.4 | But, and you could also tell it from the New York Times and Washington Post and the sort of the |
| 1:57.1 | editorials they choose to do, the sort of mood inside democratic circles. |
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