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Welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast, online editor. This week, we'll be

discussing whether the right is tearing itself apart, why next week's elections have been forgotten,

and whether books can be a force for evil.

First up, has the right gone wrong? Donald Trump this week made a clean sweep of five more

American states, and here's what he had to say.

I use the analogy of the boxer, you know, when the boxer knocks out the other boxer,

you don't have to wait around for a decision. So that's what it is. And that's

what happened tonight. That's what happened last week in New York. And that's really what's

been happening throughout. So what's powering his success. Freddie Gray argues in his

spectator cover piece that crazy is all the rage in today's politics and that the anti-politics

mood is spreading. In France, in Germany, even here in Britain with our Brexit debate,

conservatives are all going a little bit mad.

Freddie joins me now with Tom Slater from Spiked Magazine.

So, Freddie, why is crazy all the rage right now?

Well, I think we've known for a while that the left is going bananas.

And I think a lot of conservatives, particularly in this country,

have been

very smug about Jeremy Corbyn and the sort of wildness of the left and the fact that the

Blairite model has completely failed. But what they haven't noticed is that actually on the right,

the same thing's been going on. And in fact, the Blairite atom has split left and right.

And the British Conservative Party, now with the referendum,

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