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Ian Thomson, Patrick Kidd, Mike Cormack, Ursula Buchan and Richard Bratby

Ian Thomson, Patrick Kidd, Mike Cormack, Ursula Buchan and Richard Bratby

Update: 2025-07-25
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Ian Thomson on what the destruction of the Hotel Oloffson means for Haiti (00:54 ); Patrick Kidd analyses Donald Trump and the art of golf diplomacy (06:43 ); Mike Cormack reviews Irvine Welsh’s Men In Love (16:49 ); Ursula Buchan provides her notes on the Palm House at Kew (20:38 ); and, Richard Bratby argues that Johann Strauss deserves better than to be the victim of snobbery – plus listen to the end for an extract from Strauss’s Emperor Waltz (24:24 ). 


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Ian Thomson, Patrick Kidd, Mike Cormack, Ursula Buchan and Richard Bratby

Ian Thomson, Patrick Kidd, Mike Cormack, Ursula Buchan and Richard Bratby