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The Week in 60 Minutes: Covid clashes and China's 'missing' mistress

Best of the Spectator

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Katy Balls speaks to broadcaster Jeremy Vine; Oxford ethics professor Dominic Wilkinson; former Liberal Democrats leader Vince Cable; Penguin books editor Henry Eliot; and Spectator journalists Cindy Yu, Fraser Nelson, James Forsyth and Sam Leith.

We discuss Boris's CBI speech, whether a lockdown of the unvaccinated is morally justifiable, and what makes a classic book.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes.

0:14.1

I'm Katie Balls, the spectator's deputy political editor and your host this week.

0:18.7

On the show today.

0:24.6

Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic have enforced selective lockdowns, that is, lockdowns for people who don't want to take the COVID vaccine.

0:28.6

Is this fair?

0:29.6

Fraser will debate at Oxford Medical Ethics Professor.

0:32.6

Is Boris losing his sheen?

0:35.6

James Forsythe and Jeremy Vine will be on the show to tell us what they made of that CBI speech.

0:41.8

Then we'll head across the channel. Freddie Gray spoke to Eric Zamor, the French presidential candidate at the weekend.

0:48.6

Does he pose a serious challenge to Macron?

0:51.8

Then we'll look to China. A tennis player, Peng Shui, seemed to have gone

0:56.3

missing, but she has re-emerged in a series of so-called proof-of-life videos. Is the West making

1:02.0

a deal out of nothing? We'll speak to Vince Cable and Cindy Yu. And finally, what makes

1:07.7

a classic book? In a few years, might Sally Rooney be on the list of

1:11.2

classics of our generation or not? Before we get going, if you enjoy Spectator TV, do subscribe

1:17.3

to our YouTube channel. Just click the red subscribe button at the bottom of the video and

1:21.8

tap the bell icon to make sure you never miss an episode. First, is the lockdown that

1:26.9

unvaccinated ever justified?

1:29.3

In this week's cover piece, Ross Clark looks at the protest starting across Europe because of the threat of another lockdown.

1:35.3

Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator joins me now together with Dominic Wilkinson, a professor of medical ethics at the University of Oxford.

1:43.3

Fraser, Ross writes about lockdowns for the unvaccinated in Europe.

1:48.0

To start, what is happening on the continent right now?

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