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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast. I'm William Moore, the Spectators Features

Editor. Each week we look at some of the pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

Coming up this week, we ask whether Donald Trump will have a second shot at the presidency.

We look at the paradoxical relationships between

Scottish identity and the Union, and ask whether bad taste humour is on the way out.

First up, Freddie Gray has written this week's cover piece about the return of Donald Trump.

He joins me now to discuss his piece with Sarah Baxter,

former deputy editor of the Sunday Times. Freddie, when it comes to whether Trump will run for

re-election in 2024, is it now no longer a question of if, but when he will announce his candidacy?

I'm not sure we're quite there yet.

I think there are some doubts within Trump world as to whether he'll actually go for it.

But the consensus view among that rather strange section of the American right is that he

almost certainly will and that the only person who really knows is Donald

Trump. But if you listen to what he's been saying recently, he seems to be excited. He thinks that

history has vindicated him. And he gave this interview to New York Magazine last week in which he said,

the only thing in my mind is is do I go before or after?

He meant before or after the midterms, which were in November, and that suggested very much

that he's thinking he's going to go for it. It's just a question of when.

Sarah, do you agree with Freddie's analysis there? And I think particularly there's a bit

in Freddie's article where he suggests that Trump might be motivated by the sense of wanting to get revenge on Joe Biden for beating him in 2020. So a sort of

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