Welcome to the Week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and recorded in London on Thursday 6th of May. I'm Cindy Yu, the Spectator's broadcast editor, standing in for

Andrew Neal. On the show today, I'll be speaking to Neil Ferguson, not the Imperial College

epidemiologist, but a historian who coined the term chimerica. He writes the spectators' cover

article this week and will be discussing Cold War II and more. We'll also be joined by Jay Batacharya,

the Stanford Professor of Medicine who was one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration

about whether the Indian government should lockdown. Before all that, we'll chat local elections

and ask, has Boris Johnson only just realised the cost of childcare in this country? All that to come in the next hour.

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First, it's Super Thursday.

A flurry of elections across the UK are happening,

from polls in Scotland

and Wales to local elections and morality across England.

There's even a by-election in Hartlepool, a red wall seat that doesn't look certain to stay

labour.

So what should you be watching out for as the results trickling over the next few days?

Joining me now is the Spectator's political editor, James Forsyth,

and our associate editor, Isabel Hardman.

James, let's talk about Super Thursday in just the moment,

but for now, as we filmed there,

a couple of Royal Navy boats in the English Channel,

patrolling against a French barricade.

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