The Week in 60 Minutes: Germany held ransom and Biden's Roe cop out

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

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Summary

Freddy Gray, The Spectator’s deputy editor, speaks to journalist Jamie Bartlett about his new book on the multi-billion dollar crypto-scam of missing businesswoman Ruja Ignatova:

‘The whole thing was a brilliantly designed pyramid scheme with a crypto-currency branding.’

– Jamie Bartlett

On the rest of the show, analyst Wolfgang Münchau and FT chief foreign affairs correspondent Gideon Rachman discuss whether Putin could shut off Germany's gas, The Spectator's economics editor and resident American Kate Andrews breaks down what American legislators can do to protect abortion rights after the overturning of Roe v Wade, journalist Rachel Johnson pays homage to rock's graying stars and from The Spectator’s political team, James Forsyth and Katy Balls discuss the political situation that the Prime Minister returns home to, after an eight-day tour abroad.

00:00 - Welcome from Freddy Gray.
03:00 - Could Putin shut off Germany's gas? With Wolfgang Münchau and Gideon Rachman
19:25 - Politics update with Katy Balls and James Forsyth
28:55 - Can Democrats do more to protect abortion rights? With Kate Andrews
40:15 - The missing cryptoqueen: Jamie Bartlett on a multi-billion dollar crypto-scam
49:50 - Rachel Johnson on music's ageing rockstars

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0:00.0	The Spectator Economic Innovative of the Year awards, sponsored by InvestTech, are open for entries.
0:07.0	If you are an entrepreneur-led business bringing radical change to its sector, please apply at www.
0:14.0	We are looking for entries all across the UK, and our closing date is the 4th of July.
0:35.2	Hello and welcome to The Week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and broadcast on June the 30th, 2020.
0:45.3	My name is Freddie Gray. I am the deputy editor of the Spectator and I will be your host today.
0:53.3	On the show this week we'll be talking about the Spectator, and I will be your host today. On the show this week, we'll be talking about
0:56.8	the Spectator's cover piece, which is the Cold War. This is a reference to the fact that Germany
1:03.4	might be coming up for a very, very cold winter if Vladimir Putin turns off the gas taps.
1:09.3	I'll be joined by Wolfgang Manchau and Gideon Rackman.
1:14.4	Next, we'll talk about politics with James Forsyth and Katie Balls. Boris Johnson has been
1:20.8	jetting about the world, desperately trying to escape his domestic troubles. Has he had any luck?
1:27.1	And then we'll be moving to America,
1:29.2	where we'll be talking about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe versus Wave.
1:35.0	A lot of Democrats are up in arms about the decision, but do they really want to change the law
1:41.5	in order to protect abortion rights? I'll be talking to Kate Andrews about her piece in this week's magazine.
1:47.0	Changing tack will look at cryptocurrency, which only a year ago seemed like
1:54.0	one of the greatest investments ever and now looks like a bit of a disaster.
1:58.0	Jamie Bartlett has done a podcast, a very successful podcast called
2:03.3	The Missing Crypto Queen about an enormous financial scam involving something called One
2:10.0	Coin. I'll be talking to him about the scam and about cryptocurrency generally.
2:17.1	And finally, why do people like going to watch
2:20.3	Septuagenarian and Octogenarian rock stars strut about on stage?
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