The Week in 60 Minutes: Putin's nuclear threats & Bolsonaro's surprise

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🗓️ 9 October 2022

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Summary

Freddy Gray, The Spectator’s deputy editor, speaks to former Pentagon official, and the author of The Strategy of Denial, Elbridge Colby about the risk of nuclear war with Russia:

‘I’m very suspicious of the ability to control the escalation.’ – Elbridge Colby

Mark Galeotti, a Spectator contributor and the director of Mayak Intelligence, joins Elbridge, and says we ned to get tougher with Putin. On the rest of the show, our politics team James Forsyth and Katy Balls discuss Truss’s speech at the Conservative party conference, our economics editor Kate Andrews and Mark Littlewood, the director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, look at whether Trussonomics is doomed already, and our columnist Rod Liddle explains how he gave up smoking.

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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 Thursday the 6th of October.
0:19.0	My name is Freddie Gray.
0:21.8	I am the deputy editor of the spectator
0:23.7	and I will be your host today.
0:27.0	On the show, we're going to be talking
0:28.9	about the Tory party conference,
0:30.8	which you may have noticed was this week.
0:33.1	Has Liz Trust managed to get herself out of trouble
0:35.8	with her speech?
0:37.3	I'll be joined by James
0:38.6	Falsight, our politics editor and Katie Balls, our deputy politics editor, to discuss. After
0:44.4	that, we will be discussing whether Trustonomics is finished. I'll be joined by Kate Andrews,
0:50.6	our economics editor, and the head of the Institute for Economic Affairs, Mark Littlewood.
0:57.0	We will then move into global affairs and the terrifying story of Putin and nuclear war.
1:03.0	I'll talk to Mark Galiotti and Elbridge Colby about the likelihood of Putin's nuclear strike and what the West response might be.
1:14.3	We will then move to Brazil where there is a very interesting presidential election going on.
1:19.2	We've just had the first round and we will have the second round on October the 30th.
1:24.0	I am joined by Andrew Downey, who is in Sao Paulo.
1:28.3	And lastly, we will talk about cigarettes and giving them up.
1:33.3	Rod Little has just quit smoking.
1:35.3	I'll be asking him why and how.
1:38.3	And before we get started, let's thank our sponsors,
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