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Hello and welcome to 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, we've banked on vaccines being the way out of the pandemic, but could their rollout lead to the first great geopolitical battle of this century?

Plus, we take a look at the scandal rocking France's elite. And finally, we ask, is art running out of

ideas? First up, the European Union hit out at AstraZeneca this week, saying they're not

providing enough vaccines. The pharmaceutical giant,

some in Brussels, said, should divert jabs made in British supply chains to the continent.

In this week's cover piece, Matthew Lynn, columnist for the Daily Telegraph, says it marks the

beginning of a new vaccine war. He joins me now, together with the science journalist Laura Spinney,

who's written about vaccine nationalism for unheard.

Matthew, in this week's cover piece,

you say that the vaccine rollout is starting to turn quite nasty,

which seems surprising because a few weeks ago

we were all feeling pretty optimistic about the process.

What's happened in the last week?

Yeah, I think that's true.

I mean, if you go back to just before Christmas, you know, it was an amazing achievement.

You sort of take things for granted in the way that you do once they're done.

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