Why conservatism failed & Douglas on ‘workaholism’ - The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV 

Douglas Murray is always a joy to listen to. The truth shines.

I forwarded to the end only to listen to Douglas Murray, I am his number one fan, could listen to him all day every day. What a brilliant mind this man has, truly a towering intellectual.

A cracking end. We utterly enjoyed the programme, not for the politics, but for the manner the politics was discussed.

Freddie and Douglas are fantastic, could listen to them all day long ✨

Forwarded to Douglas Murray ❤ I'm addicted, I'm a Doug-laholic 😅 I'll show myself out .....

If a vote against the Tories would count as a vote against the WEF and the histrionic catastrophists, then I would happily subscribe. But everything in recent years would lead you to believe that Klaus and Greta will become ever more influential under the Islington mafia.

Good program, Freddie and Dougie great finale, laughed out loud.

We celebrate Sunak, as our first Prime Minister to lose his Party Leadership election. He was an active part of the draconian measures employed to fail to combat the mildest pandemic in human history while bankrupting the nation. Having learned those lessons, he now proposes banning smoking. For the record, I have never smoked but I have had a man brush his cigarette against the sleeve of my brand new jacket. Having put a burn mark in my jacket, he mumbled sorry but did not offer to pay for the replacement jacket that I had to purchase. I find smoking in public deeply unpleasant and anti social. I would never think to ban smoking.

Freddie's the top boy at the Spectator nowadays (in my humble opinion). Smoothest presenter & always kills it with the US coverage 👌

Brilliant banter with Douglas ❤️❤️

Douglas is right. When you are given a challenge always say yes! Then go back to the requester for detail if needed. Youngsters nowadays shy away from this stuff?

Human idiocy laid out like a great buffet....................beautiful!

Gotta say it....letting the grey emerge is a really good thing, Douglas! Looking very distinguished and stylish. Like it!!

I do love Douglas, but at 49.30 he says that something 'does not quite pass mustard any more' when of course the correct phrase is to 'pass muster' meaning to pass an inspection in a military setting.

It is sad to hear in another podcast that Lionel Shriver, who loves our culture, is leaving to Portugal. Meanwhile, Kate Andrews who thinks that what the UK needs most desperately is open boarders to people with other cultures, is staying.

When Douglass moved to the US he seemed to buff up, start wearing polo shirts and colouring his hair. Pleased to see this was largely a phase, as sharp suits and distinguished grey suit his personality.

Sir Anthony let’s not forget wrote 3 books on how bad Boris was, he is also a remainer and thinks illegal migrants are not relevant at the election. Therein lies the problem for the tories and Spectator

Conservatism did not fail it was abandoned and replaced with free market ideology. It is relatively easy to argue in favour of tradition from a philosophical, religious and scientific standpoint. It is just that nobody does it because conservatism is a kind of “natural” outlook that until now need not be positively argued for.

Great rockabilly quiff Dougie M is rocking these days.

Love Douglas Murray! Could listen to him all day. 👏🏻

I love the way Freddie says "Hullo!" at the start. Worth watching just for that.

Tim Stanley not getting the trans issue at all. Those of us who campaigned for same sex marriage understand that Rishi's position is with us not against us. He needs to acquaint himself with the issues - just looks kinda ignorant otherwise.

When was this conservatism? It hasn’t been in the UK since the early 90s.

Stanley talking hard sense, apu.

For gods sake, why should bishops get a free seat in the lords?

I find it rich that the Speccy is finally asking "what have the tories been doing for 13 years?" since the Speccy has been at the forefront of tory apologism of failure to address critical cultural issues for the past decade. YOU ENABLED THIS!

I believe Elba spoke about feeling more relaxed to sit alone working in his studio than to be with his family on the sofa after coming home from working on set for a long time. I do think that's unhealthy, or at least neglectful of the family. Perhaps the question to ask is should driven people who devote a large amount of time to work have children?

Fully agree about concerns around A levels. It's so limited, so early.

Every single section of the programme was brilliant tonight thank you

Douglas "eloquent rants" Murray - is world class at being irritable.

The otherwise outstanding Tim Stanley at 22’52” inappropriately suggests that gay rights and transgenderism are or should be part of the same political position. They are not only different, but almost diametrically opposed and, except for Trans activists, the vast majority of the public understand Trans identification as primarily a psychological, not civil rights issue.

You've gotta love Douglas. He talks bollocks with such authority.

Thank you.

Great stuff 👍

Wonderful programme

Well its always true that talking about different types of qualification at 16-18 is much cheaper than the mundane process of recruiting enough teachers at all age groups, making sure they are properly paid, making sure they have sufficient teaching resources and making sure the school roofs don't fall on the students. All things that have been sorely lacking for the last 13 years and not mentioned by Sunak in his speech.

Dear Douglas, also point the finger at GPs who just don't want to return to work post lockdowns, or the dentists who left so many to suffer and still refuse to work harder and justify their Porsche cars leaving many in pain and having to pay extortionate costs for plain extraction, post the inevitable & unavoidable £70 check up and then X ray cost. Utter disgrace.

Excellent! Thank you!

Douglas hit he truth. Too many think they are owed, that they have a born right to something. You get what you want from hard work. Yes if you are made redundant then it's good to have something to help smooth the near future but beyond that well, get another job. I've clean toilets in hotels, cleaned house for a single male, run an office for a furniture manufacturing company and be a trained jeweller, and that's just a bit of my work life over nearly 40 years. Didn't always like what I was doing but it paid my bills and bought my children through to adulthood. I was made redundant in early 20's and retrained because I could type and I did agency work before getting back into a full time post. You have to be flexible and accept the only given thing in life is death.

I say, has Douglas Murray ever written about the abuse and misuse of apostrophe's in his working life? I only ask because I've trained my dog Boo to spot misplaced apostrophe's in signs and labels. I love that dog!

By the 1950s in both Britain and the United States the railways had ceased to fashionable or that important with most citizens, voters and politicians looking to the car for personal mobility and privacy and the airliner for future business and medium distance travel. The premature and flawed introduction of the jet and prop jet Comet and Viscount did enough in 1952 to be more impressive to the British public than the High Speed Mistral Electric rail tests in France which saw the wires rip at 205mph, which actually was seen by the French engineers that a successful post steam railway would actually have to be built on new lines and a tarted up steam railway even if electrified would not be fast enough. However in Britain as the Beeching report of 1962 showed almost all British rail passenger traffic both passenger and freight did not move more than 250 miles and the longest real high volume passenger corridor was London to Newcastle , 4 hours on a Gresley steam express. The 1954 Rail Modernisation was built on a political myth and ideology which saw electrification of the two main lines to Scotland. as the main aim. Beechings figures showed the actual English Scottish transnational rail traffic in numbers, tonnage, volume and profitability was a very thin line between Newcastle and Edinburgh and Carlisle and Glasgow and he doubted if there was any point in continuing the Manchester Glasgow electrification ( In 1960.Glasgow was the second city in the Commonwealth by the time electrification to Glasgow was completed in 1974 the city population had halved, it shipyards closed and it was a red row of slums rather than a red wall of potential conservatives. Churchill and MacMillan even in 1954 viewed the railways mainly in survivalist terms as a social service to be preserved with cheap diesel and railcar modernisation against the possibility that in a post nuclear war scenario it might be useful.Certainly MacMillan as a former GWR director on the board as Stanley Baldwin had been saw that the Railways indebted by 1956 and could never be profitable again. Simply not paying dividends in bad years as the old GWR did was no longer possible and neither was it possible politically to terminate half the permanent loss by closing the Cambrian or Highland lines.Wilson whose Oxford and bureaucratic career was started by a brilliant thesis on the Nineteenth century railway economics understood Railways were no longer fashionable an better never mentioned and Blair and Thatcher saw that. So as usual Tony Crosland was wheeled in to pen the 1977 Orange paper on transport which was the core of the railway model from 1978 to 2010 of abandoning rails role as a common freight carrier and rather than building airports or new raills using the existing railway system as a high priced alternative to domestic air travel and we th the intercity 125 railcars for a long time it was done extraordinarily cheaply in capital expenditure.

Great ending!

Another great show

Superb

You two are funny. Thanks!

6:00 It's nice to see the Child Catcher has successfully re-trained for a new career.

I want to see Douglas Murray in a Superman outfit. Singing the American national anthem. I reckon that would be even more hilarious than some of his comments. ❤❤❤

Judaism is thoroughly thriving and I have converts lining up in Shul to improve their English.

I love Douglas Murray but did he say ‘pass mustard’ rather than pass muster at 49:29?! 😂

The art of irritability. And work. And other addictions .. 🙃 an ongoing welcome & sober view on these bizarre times.

Douglas brilliant as always!!

Why do all of the people trotted out and being presented as being "experts" keep blaming the Ukraine war as being the main cause of inflation? The root cause is government money printing and mismanagement and has nothing to do (except perhaps for government imposed sanctions) with current rates of inflation.

Really cool, though would be better if the used the Cosworth Catalyst than the diesel engine I guess 😊

'Populist neoliberalism' is an oxymoron, populism has always been aligned with more economically collectivist ideas. Economic liberalism is the natural bedfellow of moderate social liberalism (but not of course the illiberal neosegregationist leftist stuff we for some idiotic reason insist on calling 'liberal').

and what would Murray advise to young people on typical professional London salary of 28K? share bunkbed to accomodate in office work?

Anybody else tune into Centrist TV just to get an idea what the hacks in the Westminster bubble are thinking currently? Remember former editor James Forsyth is Rishis best mate and current Chief of Staff so what the Spectator tell us is pretty much straight from the unelected horses mouth

HS2 is decades behind schedule, in looking at European and Far east countries such as Japan (Bullet trains) there are no new trains that can run on it, Its billions of pounds above the estimate given, people have been bought off and in some cases sued for not giving up their property because "its in the way" and now they figure on scrapping one of the main routes that were proposed. The whole scheme was an utter farce from start but yet to finish in about another ten years (estimated). In terms of UK infrastructure we are decades behind any other country and I thought when it was 1st proposed this is going to be an absolute waste of tax payer money. Which seems to be proven.

Katie the best she’s adorable 🥰

As I have said before, this is the best political show of the week. James Heale is very good but he gabbles on and is difficult and tiring to listen to. I always have to rewind. And I'm not entirely an old git. Take a leaf out of Freddy's book who makes a point of holding his horses and has got it just right. Slow up, man!

@32 mins - unless you promote private enterprise and lower taxes in order to grow the economy you won't ever have the resources to pay for schools and hospitals. The one is necessary to fund the other.

I know Doug Murray is a controversialist by profession, and likes to test boundaries, but to boldly assert that Idris Elba is a good actor is surely taking things to a new level. It is not so much a case of Idris Elba being a good actor, but more a case of Douglas Murray knowing f all about the acting profession.

Hey! I love Doritos! But I'm retired. 😁

That the UK has a conservative party, is news to me.

So good politics, is not necessarily good policy. Who knew... Our Collective business at heart.

It is disappointing to hear The Spectator debate on Refugees/Economic Migrants crossing our border illegally. All views are about where the deckchairs should go on the Titanic. Not one person was arguing that in helping Refugees, it is not necessary for any of them to come & live in the UK. We can help far more of them by only helping people in Overseas Refugee Camps. If people want to come & live in the UK, they should apply to Immigrate to the UK. It has never been easier to immigrate to the UK. As we see in Pro Hamas demonstrations around the Wester World, it is possible for someone to need help, while being entirely undesirable.

Conservatism? Having an Indian guru as the national leader was the great counter-culture hippy dream.

Anthony Seldon starts his sentences with “so”…

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I'm off to feed some other addiction

Good to see Freddy has bought some Head & Shoulders. The dandruff was distracting me from his brilliant insights.

Disney Lemmings had a greater survival instinct then C of E Bishops who welcome in Islam. That went so well in Buddhist Afghanistan. Christian: Turkey, Egypt & Palestine. Zoroastrian Iran.

У меня такое было пока один пенсионного возраста индюк из Вашей страны не сломал мне карьеру своим резким и далеким от реального разбирательства решении.

There is no way that bloak owns a dorg

Offices are soul-suckling misery. I wonder how much time Douglas has spent in a cubicle doing mind-numbing empty work.

I don't agree with the Cameron clegg alliance. It was the start of the end as Cameron thought he could take the youth vote away from the libs. All it did was make the Conservatives left of centre and is why the party is dead. The reason why the right leaning government failed post brexit was cause of Parliament, house of Lords, and the civil service being politically left. Hard to govern when all the apparatuses of government will fight against the government.

It’s fine to not work and put your feet up as long as you are not expecting anyone else to pay for it.

I Thought that geezer looked like Parker out of thunderbirds I was hoping he was going to say yes ma lady to Katie 😂and I prefer Freddie to that other boy that sounds like he’s got a spoon up his jacksy obviously Douglas Murray is top drawer as usual

20 min in: Brexit was 'not the tories fault'? For good or ill, Brexit is a tory project and it was 2 tory governments that negotiated our terms of leaving

Boris could have won the next GE. Its good by tories

Инвестиции + торговля это более американская линия, построение+торговля это более британское

Только церковь не ищет легких решений в их глубокую концептуальность я склонен верить

Douglas Murray, the economic migrant complaining about other migrants is typical of conservatives. Hardcore conservatives have to take the lead. They are not Braver an, Patel or Badenoch!

Why does Sir Anthony Seldon think it appropriate to start answering a question with “So”? It is a very irritating trend and grammatically unnecessary. It is more often than not followed by bland waffle as he went on to prove.

Tim Stanley is wrong.

Freddie has the voice of a 178 year old man but looks like a middle aged baby.

Braverman as a leadership contender??? Please god no.

Don't ya love them!?

Брексит это шаг показывающий дальновидность, типа мы не с ними, мы знаем большую динамику.

Is that a Piraeus jug, in the background? (21mins). And casual American disingenuousness! Did anyone notice? Not a good idea the last I heard. Perhaps the game has changed over the years.

Douglas does embellish his …. Facts

Radical,? Change?all his policies as admiral as they are too long term, nearly all deliverable in the next decade or have I missed something?

Программа для правительства, где максимально подробно была бы ясна судьба каждых политически активных слоев и игроков это есть классическое решение

Tim is bang on.

Theres no need for a new word ie workaholism when greed covers it exactly. Sparauncing like that is see through since the internet.

Murray looks like he’s also addicted to facial fillers

whats going on with them ears?

Програмные речи и предпочтения больше не говорят ни о том, как это будет исполняться, ни к чему это приведет

Douglas Murray hasn't labored a day in his life.

Tim Stanley seems like a bit of a gimp. Who agrees?

The Tories have done better than Labour if they had been in power for 13 years. HS2 needs to be scrubbed , smoking for young people is the right thing to do , I would have never started to smoke as a Teenager if it had been illegal.