The Week in 60 Minutes: Putin in Xi's pocket and lockdown's ghost children

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🗓️ 26 March 2023

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Cindy Yu, the Spectator's assistant editor speaks to Katy Balls about Boris's future – is the show over for the political influencer? Also on Spectator TV, Harriet Sergeant reveals the stories of children who never returned to school after lockdown; Gideon Rachman looks at China's shifting foreign policy; Danny Shaw on the rotten culture inside the Metropolitan Police and Sasha Hinkley believes there may be life on exoplanets.

00:00 Welcome from Cindy Yu
02:00 Is the Boris show over? With Katy Balls
11:01 What happened to lockdown's missing children? With Harriet Sergeant and Miriam Cates MP
25:17 Is the Met Police beyond repair? With Danny Shaw
36:18 Why did Xi visit Putin? With Gideon Rachman
47:18 What is an exoplanet? With Sasha Hinckley

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0:00.0	The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher.
0:35.6	Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you on Thursday, 23rd of March.
0:38.3	I'm Cindy Yu, the Spectator's Assistant Editor.
0:41.3	Coming up on the show.
0:43.3	Boris Johnson is in the news again, but it's his time in the limelight while in Chulie over.
0:48.3	I'll be speaking to Katie Balls.
0:50.3	The pandemic might be over, but it turns out there are over 100,000 children who never returned to school after they were closed during lockdown.
0:58.3	What's going on? Harriet Sergeant looks at Britain's ghost children for the cover piece this week.
1:02.9	She joins me on the show, along with Miriam Kate's MP.
1:06.2	From education to policing, the Met Police have received another damning report this week.
1:10.6	It's the force beyond repair. Danny Shaw has been looking at damning report this week. Is the force beyond
1:11.3	repair? Danny Shaw has been looking at the story and he joins me on the show. And over to the
1:16.6	East, Xi has just returned to China after three days in Moscow. Is Chinese neutrality on the
1:21.6	Ukraine war slipping? And what else is Xi looking at to get out of his friendship with Putin?
1:26.5	Gideon Rackman joins me to discuss.
1:29.0	And finally, a crash cause on exoplanets. Now if you have no idea what they are, stay tuned,
1:33.3	as astronomer Satchel Hinkley tells me all about them, and why then just may be life in outer space.
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