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The Week in 60 Minutes: Boris's nightmare and lockdown revisited

Best of the Spectator

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Fraser Nelson is joined by Douglas Murray, The Spectator's associate editor; Professor Tim Spector, principal investigator at ZOE; Professor Simon Wood, from the University of Edinburgh; Adam Ritchie, a vaccine development specialist from the University of Oxford; Professor Noel Sharkey, from the University of Sheffield and formerly of Robot Wars; and Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6.

We discuss whether Britain needs a first lady, if the UK should send vaccines to India, and if we're ready for cyber warfare.

To watch the show, go to www.spectator.co.uk/tv.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and broadcast on Thursday, April the 29th.

0:19.0

I'm Fraser Nelson, standing in for Andrew Neal.

0:22.7

On this week's show, we're going to be covering the latest in the Downing Street

0:26.1

psychodrama, who's going to come out on top, Boris, Dom or perhaps Carrie? Our political

0:31.8

editor, James Versaith, and Katie Balls will give us the latest. Then Douglas Murray and

0:36.8

Kate Andrews will discuss whether

0:38.3

Britain really needs a first lady. Then we'll turn on to the far trickier question, not who

0:44.0

leaked the second lockdown, but whether that lockdown was implemented on a false premise. Now we're

0:49.9

going to be looking at the COVID in India question and then ask if Britain should be donating vaccines

0:55.2

as well as ventilators. And then finally looking at cyber warfare. We're going to be talking to Sir Richard

1:01.0

Dearlove, the former head of MI6, about the new tools head by Russia and China and how much we

1:06.9

should worry. All that to come in the next hour. But before we get going, we've got a new app

1:12.9

which you can get from the app store or an Android. It's got all of the Spectator podcasts, the

1:18.4

blogs, the magazines, and for a special introductory offer, we're offering three months, absolutely

1:24.1

free, full digital access. The offer ends at midnight and Sunday so

1:29.3

you can avail yourself of it by going to spectator dot's co.uk forward slash TV offer

1:35.3

and as ever a special thank you to Charles Stanley one of the UK's leading wealth

1:39.8

management firms and sponsor of Spectator TV without their sponsorship sponsorship, we would have no show to show you.

1:46.3

There were one of the oldest companies in the London Stock Exchange for Spectator is the oldest magazine in the world.

1:51.8

We're delighted to be partners with Charles Stanley.

1:54.5

Okay, to business. This week's psychodrama is depicted in the front cover of this week's magazine.

2:00.6

We had a pretty tricky job.

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