The Edition: why Trump can't be stopped
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Guy takes a look at Trump's ‘second coming’ in his cover story. He says that despite Trump’s legal troubles, he is almost certain to receive the Republican nomination. Freddy joins the podcast alongside Amber Duke, who also writes in the magazine this week about the brides of trump: the women hoping to receive the nod as his running mate.
Also this week: the old trope is that there is nothing more ex than an ex prime minister, but what about an ex MP?
In the magazine this week, The Spectator’s political correspondent James Heale says that Tory MPs expecting to lose their seats at the next election are jumping on the 'green gravy train' and taking up consultancy positions in the fast-growing climate sector. He joins the podcast alongside Edwina Currie, author, broadcaster, and former Tory MP, to talk about life after politics.
And finally: is self-publishing the future?
Alison Kervin, author and former sports editor at the Mail on Sunday, discusses the rise of self-publishing for The Spectator. In her piece, she praises its financial benefits and argues that it allows writers to overcome some of the problems caused by gatekeepers at the big publishing houses. Alison joins us alongside author and Spectator columnist, Lionel Shriver.
Hosted by William Moore and Lara Prendergast.
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| 0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. |
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| 0:26.5 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we take a look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:41.6 | And I'm Laura Prendergast, the Spectator's Executive Editor. |
| 0:44.8 | On the podcast, we'll be asking if anyone can stop Trump, |
| 0:49.2 | discussing what life after politics looks like for the MPs likely to lose their seats, |
| 0:53.7 | and debating whether |
| 0:54.8 | self-publishing is the future. First up, the Spectator's deputy editor, Freddie Gray, takes a look |
| 1:01.7 | at Donald Trump's second coming in the cover story this week. Freddie says that despite Trump's |
| 1:07.2 | legal troubles, he is almost certain to receive the Republican nomination. |
| 1:12.2 | Freddie joins us now alongside Amber Duke, Spectator World's Washington editor, who also writes |
| 1:17.6 | in the magazine this week about the brides of Trump, the women hoping to receive the nod as |
| 1:22.6 | Trump's running mate. Freddie, we're speaking just as the Republican primaries are about to get going and obviously |
| 1:29.0 | nothing is decided yet. But as you say in your cover piece, we should be preparing for Donald |
| 1:33.7 | Trump's second coming. What exactly do you mean by that? And what's it going to look like? |
| 1:38.7 | I think it will be a more right-wing presidency. I think that would be, that seems to be clear. I mean, |
| 1:46.5 | what people forget about Donald Trump in 2016 was that he was actually quite a liberal in some |
| 1:50.9 | ways and that when he got to Washington, he really wanted to make a sort of accommodation with |
| 1:56.1 | Washington. He wanted to, you know, bring on board establishment type people and so on. The people around Trump |
| 2:03.1 | still bitter about that because they felt like that was a big mistake and that when he comes |
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