The Week in 60 Minutes: Harry vs the press & Oxfam attacks terfs

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🗓️ 11 June 2023

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Summary

Cindy Yu is joined by Neil Wallis and Freddy Gray to discuss Prince Harry’s lone crusade in the hacking trial against the Mirror. Also on the show, Katy Balls on the Prime Minister’s trip to Washington; Christopher Snowdon on why it’s time for Britain to pull out of the WHO; Michael Shellenberger to defends free speech and Helen Joyce on the terf Oxfam advert.

00:00 Welcome from Cindy Yu
02:14 What happened when Prince Harry took the stand? With Neil Wallis and Freddy Gray
16:20 Is the 'special relationship' reciprocated? With Katy Balls
23:19 Is it time Britain left WHO? With Christopher Snowdon
36:26 Why are government's clamping down on free speech? With Michael Shellenberger
48:39 Why is Oxfam weighing in on the gender critical debate? With Helen Joyce

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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 8th of June.
0:18.4	I'm Cindy Yu, the Spectator's assistant editor and your host for this
0:21.7	week. Coming up on the show, Prince Harry has been in London this week for the phone hacking trial
0:27.5	against the mirror. Freddie Gray writes the cover piece for the magazine about Harry's lonely crusade,
0:34.5	the first royal to take the stand this century. Has the prince been badly advised by
0:39.2	his lawyers? I'll be joined by Freddie Gray and former Sun Journalist Neil Wallace. Rishi
0:46.3	Sunak has arrived in Washington for a state visit with President Biden. Sunnak clearly wants
0:51.6	to be Biden's best friend, but is that love reciprocated?
0:55.0	Katie Balls has the story.
0:57.0	And is the World Health Organization Beyond Repair?
1:00.0	That's what Christopher Snowden suggests in the magazine this week.
1:04.0	From cozying up to authoritarian states to releasing questionable health advice,
1:09.0	the WHO might well have lost its way. Christopher joins the show.
1:14.5	It's now being revealed to that during the pandemic, the UK and US governments both worked
1:20.2	with social media companies to clamp down on what they called misinformation about COVID-19.
1:25.9	But what costs of freedom of speech does that come at?
1:29.2	Author and journalist Michael Schellenberger has just begun a worldwide campaign against censorship.
1:34.7	He joins me on the show. And finally, Oxfam released an odd video this week, seemingly to
1:42.2	directly reference J.K. Rowling and calling
1:44.6	her a turf. I'll be hearing all about what that word means and why Oxfam would care about it.
1:50.3	Helen Joyce, the journalist, joins me. Before we get going, thanks to our sponsors,
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