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Hello and welcome to you the edition.

The Spectator's weekly look at some of the most intriguing and important issues within the week's magazine.

I'm Lara Prendergast.

In this week's episode, Joe Biden may have won the US election, but does Silicon Valley now rule supreme?

Plus, churches are allowed to open during lockdown, but should they? And finally,

can comfort food, cozy socks and binging the latest TV series actually replace human contact?

First up, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat have all now suspended Donald Trump's accounts on their

platforms, with Twitter,

the president's favourite social media account, saying he was responsible for inciting violence.

In this week's cover piece, historian Neil Ferguson argues that in dumping Trump, Silicon Valley

has finally omitted to the power that it holds. Neil joins me now, together with Greg

Bendinger, of the New York

Times' editorial board. Nail, in your cover piece this week, you say that tech companies have

finally unveiled the power that they have. Do you think this has been a long time coming?

Yes. I think the surprising thing really is that so few people, particularly people on the right,

realized where things were heading

when it was pretty obvious to me after the 2016 election.

In fact, I wrote a book about it, The Square and the Tower and a bunch of articles,

including one in The Spectator in 2017, making the point that although Trump had won, partly because of the way he'd been

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