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The Version podcast: is slimming down the monarchy the one manner to put it aside?

Is slimming down the one strategy to future-proof the monarchy? ‘Megxit’ appears symptomatic of an underlying downside – the Royal household is ge



Is slimming down the one strategy to future-proof the monarchy? ‘Megxit’ appears symptomatic of an underlying downside – the Royal household is getting greater, and it doesn’t know what to do with the minor members of its household.

On the podcast, Isabel Hardman talks to Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley and royal correspondent Katie Nicholl in regards to the thesis in our cover piece this week – Penny Junor takes a take a look at the ups and downs of reorganising the Agency. Does Tim assume Meghan has been pushed out by a racist media?

‘I’m somewhat reluctant to say sure or no, as a result of I’m a white man, and inevitably the best way I understand information protection goes to be very totally different from somebody who isn’t. I’m additionally delicate about the truth that Harry has… now obtained a toddler, and that little one is mixed-race. So I can think about that Harry in all probability sees problems with race in a barely totally different strategy to how he would have seen them earlier than.’

We additionally check out the upcoming Irish election. Liam Halligan writes that Leo Varadkar – typically seen as a Brexit bogeyman – is eager to work with the UK within the subsequent stage. The issue now could be that Varadkar might not be Taoiseach for lengthy. So what would possibly occur within the Irish election? Liam joins the podcast, along with Tony Connelly, Europe Editor of RTE Information.

And final, Cosmo Landesman volunteered at a homeless shelter Christmas Day however writes on this week’s situation that it was simply – in his phrases – ‘actually boring’. So what occurred – and are liberal elites anticipating the unsuitable issues out of volunteering? He chats to Isabel on the podcast, along with the Spectator’s Commissioning Editor Mary Wakefield.





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