The Week in 60 Minutes: Hitchens on nukes & Truss's gas gamble

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🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Katy Balls, The Spectator's deputy political editor, is joined by journalist Peter Hitchens; Spectator contributor Paul Wood; The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews; political editor James Forsyth; assistant editor Isabel Hardman; news editor John Connolly; and assistant online editor Lisa Haseldine.

On the episode:
00:00 – Welcome from Katy Balls
01:21 – Would Putin use a nuclear bomb? With Paul Wood and Peter Hitchens
15:39 – The politicians speaking out against Putin, with Lisa Haseldine
27:41 – Why does Truss want to be unpopular? With James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman
40:58 – What's behind the violence in Leicester? With John Connolly
46:04 – Could Truss's gas price freeze cost less than planned? With Kate Andrews

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Week in 60 Minutes. I'm Katie Balls, your host.
0:15.0	Coming up on the show. Vladimir Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons against the West if he doesn't get what
0:22.9	he wants in Ukraine, but would he really do it?
0:26.0	I'll speak to Paul Wood and Peter Hitchens.
0:29.5	Putin isn't just having trouble abroad.
0:31.6	He's being challenged domestically too.
0:34.5	Lisa Hasseldyne will speak to a Russian politician who openly says he wants Putin to go.
0:39.3	Liz Trust this week defended bankers' bonuses and said that she's happy to be unpopular if it gets Britain's economy moving.
0:46.3	I'll speak to James Forsythe and Isabel Hardman about where this is such a good idea.
0:51.3	Violence between Hindus and Muslims has flared up in the Midlands.
0:55.0	Why? I'll speak to John Connolly.
0:58.0	And finally, might Liz Truss's plan to pay for Britain's gas bills cost far less than first thought?
1:05.0	I'll be joined by Kate Andrews who will talk us through the economics.
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1:31.3	In an address to the Russian people on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin said he was calling
1:36.4	up army reservists to serve in Ukraine. He also said that if pushed, Russia would use nuclear
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