The Week in 60 Minutes: Douglas Murray on the Troubles and SNP breakdown

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

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Summary

John Connolly is joined by Andrew Neil to discuss the SNP’s implosion; Douglas Murray and Arlene Foster on the ongoing sectarianism in Northern Ireland; Louise Perry and Kim Cotton on the ethical dilemmas of surrogacy and David Abulafia on Neflix's portrayal of Cleopatra.

00:00 Welcome from John Connolly
01:54 Is the SNP over? With Andrew Neil
13:24 Can Northern Ireland move on from the Troubles? With Douglas Murray and Arlene Foster
32:03 Is surrogacy unethical? With Louise Perry and Kim Cotton
54:26 Why is Netflix pretending that Cleopatra was black? With David Abulafia

Produced by Natasha Feroze.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes. I'm John Connolly, the Spectator's news editor and your host for this week.
0:17.7	Coming up on the show. We're only a month into Humza-U-SAS leadership of the SMP.
0:23.7	This party seems to have imploded with senior members of the SMP facing arrest,
0:27.7	resignations and police searches. It's just the end of the party, and with that independence,
0:32.5	Andrew Neal joins me on the show. As world leaders fly to Belfast for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement,
0:39.4	who are Ireland's violent men of peace?
0:41.9	Douglas Murray takes a look for this week's magazine.
0:44.2	He joins me on the show, along with Arlene Foster.
0:48.9	For our cover piece this week, Louise Perry and Paul Morgan Bentley share their views on surrogacy.
0:55.7	Louise joins me on the show, followed by Kim Cotton, who is the UK's first surrogate mother.
1:02.3	And finally, is it wrong for Netflix to portray Cleopatra as black in their new series?
1:09.0	Some may think it's an erasure of history, but does that matter?
1:12.8	I'm joined by Professor David Abelofia.
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1:38.4	Just go to spectator.co.c.u.k.fowl-tr slash TV offer to subscribe. To kick things off, we're starting with the state of the SNP.
1:48.1	I'm here now with the Spectator's chairman, Andrew Neal, who's been following the story closely.
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