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The Week in 60 Minutes: Putin's nukes and China after Tiananmen

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Fraser Nelson, The Spectator’s editor, speaks to Louise Perry, author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, about why it should be harder to divorce. Elsewhere on the the show, Spectator contributor Christopher Howse discusses the monarchy with our political editor James Forsyth. Cindy Yu, host of our Chinese Whispers podcast, says China hasn’t changed all that much since the Tiananmen Square protests 30 years ago. Former consultant J. Meirion Thomas tells Fraser why GP surgeries are in crisis. Historians Antony Beevor and Serhii Plokhy talk about why Putin might yet win in Ukraine.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes from Spectator TV. I'm Fraser Nelson and your host this week.

0:18.0

On the show, the Queen's Jubilee, the nation is celebrating, but has the

0:22.6

monarchy somehow managed to make itself more relevant rather than less as the decades have

0:27.1

gone past? I'll be talking to James Rosythe and to Christopher House. And then to another

0:32.6

institution of marriage. Fewer people are getting hitched than ever before, but should we worry.

0:38.3

Louise Perry says we should, but from a feminist point of view, an institution, she says,

0:42.7

it started to protect women on net more than men. I'll be speaking to her.

0:47.7

And then onto Ukraine, Mike Putin's luck have turned. Kate Andrews talks to the historians,

0:53.4

Anthony Beaver and Sir Hiplohy.

0:56.0

And 40 years on since the Tiananmen Square massacre, how has China changed? It's got a lot

1:01.0

rich, but culturally it's going into reverse, says Cindy Yu. She joins me as well. And finally,

1:06.5

why is it so difficult to get a face-to-face appointment with GPs? Meridian Thomas joins me and says it's done to do with the new NHS system called Total

1:14.6

Triage.

1:15.6

We'll discuss it later.

1:16.6

And before we start, a special offer, if you don't subscribe to the spectator, then

1:20.6

this is the perfect chance to try.

1:23.6

Our marketing department are offering an economically unwise deal. For just one pound, you get

1:29.7

10 weeks of the magazine, 10 weeks full digital access and a Spectator Jubilee tea towel,

1:36.1

just for a quid. So to avail yourself of this deeply economically daft idea, then go to

1:43.8

spectator.com., forward slash platinum.

1:47.8

Anyway, on to that, Jubilee. Christopher House, was Spectator's former production editor and

1:51.9

our portrait of the week writer, joins me with James Versaith to discuss the mystery of the monarchy.

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