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Katy Balls is joined by Douglas Murray; Enver Solomon, CEO of the Refugee Council; Professor Sunetra Gupta, from the University of Oxford; actress and refugee Arwa Omaren; Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana; and Olympic silver medallist and former GB rower Cath Bishop.

Migrant crisis and 'expert' models

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Freddy Gray is joined by Douglas Murray, The Spectator's associate editor; Sir Mark Walport, chief scientific adviser to the government from 2013 to 2017; Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor of Harper's magazine; Tom Tugendhat, Conservative MP and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee; and a team of Spectator journalists.

Assault on liberty & vaccines flip-flop - The Week in 60 Minutes

Spectator TV brings our writing to life with interactive live video broadcasts. Watch columnists, politicians and provocateurs discuss the most pertinent issues of the day.

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Kate Andrews is joined by journalist and Spectator contributor Petronella Wyatt; ZOE app principal investigator Tim Spector; Chatham House's Christopher Sabatini; The Spectator's associate editor Toby Young; and a team of Spectator journalists.

Nanny state Boris and living with Covid - The Week in 60 Minutes

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Cindy Yu is joined by University of Oxford professors Julian Savulescu and Dominic Wilkinson; journalist Ian Williams; King's College London's Professor Kerry Brown; embroiderer Jess de Wahls; and a team of Spectator journalists.

Covid rights and wrongs & China buys Cambridge - The Week in 60 Minutes

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Unfair Covid rules

On Tuesday, Liam Fox tweeted that Brits were being treated like '2nd class citizens in our own country', because of the government's isolation rules for returning travellers.

He tells Kate that the public are becoming irritated by what seems like double standards: 'What is irritating people at the moment is that they see the rules being applied in a very asymmetric way - too many exemptions for reasons that are not entirely clear and a suspicion that we are now following dates not data.'&nbsp;

Uighur manhunt


Investigative journalist Harald Maass describes China's global manhunt of Uighur Muslims. No longer satisfied with imprisoning members of the minority group living in China, Beijing is now extraditing Uighurs from countries that were previously safe havens like Turkey and Egypt.

He tells Kate: 'We're not talking about dissidents. We're talking about normal families. In one case, the wife has not heard from her husband for more than three years.'
East vs west


Back in Europe, EU leaders are arguing over a new Hungarian law that would ban any display of homosexual content in schools to under-18s.

Angela Merkel would usually mediate these clashes, but with the German chancellor quitting in September, who will keep the EU together? James Forsyth speaks to Spectator contributors Jonathan Miller and Katja Hoyer. 

Jonathan says Macron is focused on re-election next year, but will be keen to fill the power vacuum: ‘Macron is a European ideologue without much question. He wants a deeper Europe, and therefore he’s going to want to see a German in charge who shares his vision. But I also think Macron’s ambition is that he will be calling the shots more from now on.’&nbsp;

Hancock deepfake


At the end of the show, Isabel Oakeshott says she was offered the video of Matt Hancock breaking Covid rules in his office, but turned in down because she thought it was fake. 

Inquiries to find the source of the leaked footage are now underway, but Isabel says she hopes they're not unmasked: '‘I don’t really want them to find out who leaked the video because I think they did quite a public service. I believe they were motivated by wanting to expose what they saw as a hypocrisy.’

Kate Andrews is joined by Liam Fox, former international trade secretary; investigative journalist Harald Maass; journalist Isabel Oakeshott; Spectator contributors Jonathan Miller and Katja Hoyer; alongside James Forsyth and Katy Balls from our home team.

Hancock 'deepfake' & Uighur manhunt - The Week in 60 Minutes

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The UK is set to host the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November. The talks will bring together thousands of delegates including heads of state, climate experts and campaigners to agree coordinated action to tackle climate change. But is Britain&nbsp;–&nbsp;and indeed the rest of the world&nbsp;–&nbsp;ready to make the changes a green agenda could require? Is green technology able to sustain our energy demands? And as we recover from the pandemic, is the UK’s&nbsp;goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 realistic? 
Join Spectator journalists, politicians and industry experts, as our summit sets the agenda ahead of COP26. Registration is free and open to all.

Join Spectator journalists, politicians and industry experts, as our summit sets the agenda ahead of COP26. Registration is free.

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The road to COP26

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On this week's episode, Fraser Nelson is joined by, Tory MP Robert Halfon; Maurice Mcleod from Race on the Agenda; Author Douglas Murray; cartoonist and satirist Michael Heath; and a team of Spectator journalists.

Government hypocrisy & the limits of 'white privilege' - The Week in 60 Minutes

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On this week's episode, Katy Balls speaks to Tony Abbott, the former prime minister of Australia, on why fighting climate change can't come at the cost of economic hurt. Also on the show are Dr David Nabarro, a WHO special envoy on Covid-19, on the government's pandemic response; and The Spectator’s home team: Fraser Nelson and Kate Andrews, on the delay to ending restrictions;&nbsp;Spectator columnist Rod Liddle;&nbsp;author and journalist&nbsp;Lionel Shriver and James Forsyth on everything from Euro 2021 and what it’s like to go abroad these days.&nbsp;