The Edition: what to expect from a second Trump term
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Vengeance is a lifelong theme of Donald Trump’s, writes Freddy Gray in this week’s cover story – and this year’s presidential election could provide his most delectable payback of all. Meanwhile, Kate Andrews writes that Nikki Haley’s campaign is over – and with it went the hopes of the Never Trump movement. Where did it all go wrong? They both join the podcast to discuss what to expect from Trump’s second coming. (03:11)
Then: Will and Gus take us through some of their favourite pieces from the magazine, including Michael Hann’s Pop review and Cosmo Landesman’s City Life column. (16:38)
Next: Flora Watkins writes in The Spectator about on private schools. She discusses how she is taking her kids out of private school, partly because of a rise in school fees brought about by inflation and the cost of living and partly in anticipation of Labour imposing VAT on school fees. To debate, Julie Robinson – general secretary of the Independent Schools Council – and Fiona Millar – former education advisor to Tony Blair – join the podcast. (20:36)
And finally: the rise of organised shoplifting.
Shoplifting is on the increase, writes Harriet Sergeant, not because of struggling Britons, but because of organised criminals trafficking children, too young to be charged, from around Europe to steal from British shops. They view the UK as poorly policed but rich; the perfect place for stealing goods to sell on quickly. Harriet joins the podcast alongside Xander Cloudsley, a shoplifting activist from the organisation This Is Rigged. (31:36)
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| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to a slightly new format for the edition podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | We're going to be talking about the magazine, as per usual, |
| 0:37.7 | but we're going to try to give a little bit more insight into the thought process behind putting the world's oldest weekly magazine to bed. I'm William Moore, |
| 0:43.0 | the Spectator's Features Editor. And I'm not Laura Prendergast. I'm Gus Carter, the Spectator's |
| 0:48.0 | Deputy Features Editor. Sorry. So, Will, we're talking on Thursday afternoon. |
| 0:57.0 | The magazine went to press a little bit later actually this week yesterday for the budget. |
| 1:02.1 | Our cover this week is Freddie Gray on what to expect from Trump's second term. |
| 1:07.8 | Can you take us back to conference on Monday, our editorial conference, and just |
| 1:12.6 | explain to listeners why we came up with that idea? Well, obviously, this Tuesday just gone was |
| 1:18.6 | super Tuesday. And I think we've known for a long time, everyone's known for a long time, |
| 1:22.9 | that Trump was almost certainly going to win big on Tuesday. And that's, of course, what happened. |
| 1:28.9 | And Nikki Haley dropped out the race. And given that it looks like Trump is almost certainly |
| 1:33.3 | going to go up against Biden now at the end of the year, and pretty likely to win, |
| 1:38.0 | it's about time to ask what might that look like. And Freddie has written an extremely |
| 1:42.8 | good cover piece in which he focuses |
| 1:45.3 | on the theme of revenge, which he says runs through the whole of Trump's re-election campaign. |
| 1:50.4 | And then in conference, Katie Balls, our politics editor came up with a very good idea |
| 1:54.9 | of asking our brilliant cover artist, Morton Morland, to do the cover as a pastiche of that famous Obama |
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