The Week in 60 Minutes: Truss's cabinet and Rushdie's critics
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🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
‘Publishing has become completely paranoid about putting out anything that might be insulting to Islam.’ – Lionel Shriver
On the rest of the show, our economics editor Kate Andrews explains why the jobs market is so good, but the economy is heading for a recession. Jonathan Sumption, a former Supreme Court judge, says the Online Harms Bill is ‘illegitimate’. Our deputy political editor Katy Balls and assistant editor Isabel Hardman look at who might be in Liz Truss’s cabinet. Journalist Francesco Giubilei argues that Giorgia Meloni, the favourite to become Italy’s next prime minister, isn’t a fascist. Spectator contributor Matthew Lynn says crypto is back.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator and your host for this week. |
| 0:21.6 | Inflation has hit Britain hard, but if we're in recession, then why are there so many jobs? |
| 0:26.6 | Kate Andrews joins me to try to get to the bottom of this mystery. |
| 0:30.6 | Liz Truss will probably be solving that mystery when she's elected Prime Minister, but who's she going to have in her cabinet? |
| 0:36.6 | Katie Balls and Isabel Hardman join me to discuss. |
| 0:40.4 | And Britain isn't the only country heading for a new female Prime Minister. |
| 0:44.6 | Georgia Maloney is set to take the reins in Italy after the election there next month. |
| 0:50.1 | But is she going to really be the most right-wing leader Italy's head since Mussolini? |
| 0:55.5 | And if so, how worried do we need to be? |
| 0:58.8 | And as Big Brother going to be regulating the internet and indeed internet shows like this, |
| 1:04.5 | Jonathan Sumption joins me to discuss the online safety bill and whether it will, as he fears, |
| 1:10.5 | cast a censor's chill down everything broadcast on YouTube or said online. |
| 1:15.6 | Salman Rushdie is still recovering in the New York hospital after being attacked last weekend. |
| 1:20.6 | What does that attack say about freedom of speech and how strongly is it being defended? |
| 1:25.6 | I talk to a columnist Lionel Shriver about |
| 1:28.7 | who thinks that terrorism is winning. And finally, is it too early to proclaim the death of |
| 1:34.4 | cryptocurrencies? They've staged quite a rally in the last few days. Matthew Lynn joins me to |
| 1:39.7 | discuss whether this is for real or just another crypto mirage. |
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| 1:56.4 | We've got a rather unusually generous introductory offer right now, one pound a week for the first year. You can avail yourself of this rather uneconomic for us anyway offer on spectator.com. |
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