Sturgeon's dangerous deal & Raab's barbs - The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV

[@johnappleby405]

So good to hear a news programme presented by adults in contrast to the BBC and Sky. Thank you Spectator

[@scepteredisle]

BBC and Sky AND GBN sadly. Why couldn't they have merged the Spectator crew with GBN? GBN right now is very low-IQ and it's vile.

[@russellcook3922]

Cindy is an excellent host.

[@PB-dl8kl]

Well done Cindy, holding your own as the programme anchor with Andrew Neil on the show. Great to see Andrew back giving another sound commentary on the current situation in Scotland

[@sammysxk5831]

Cindy Yu did a great job there and great to see Andrew back, I hope we start to see him more regularly again going forward.

[@gtaylor178]

Andrew Neil, a Great British Institution!

[@grumpyoldman8661]

Excellent broadcast as usual, with Andrew's analytical contribution. I took out the Spectator subscription and am really pleased with the journal; high-quality journalism.

[@emmasuesitch3354]

Great job Cindy. Look forward to seeing you again. Glad to see Andrew again. He's a must see. The covid figures are good too. Thanks.

[@emmanuelmiranda2460]

As always, my favourite take on the week. I like the change in host each week, works really well. Andrew being interviewed..role reversal. I liked that too.

[@sisiphas]

Again, an excellent show. Good to hear Andrew Neil’s analyses again.

[@egil29prey]

Please keep Andrew Neil on the airways!

[@eugeniachapar]

Good to see Andrew Neil back! And the ladies, Cindy, Kate and Katie, brilliant!,,

[@davidhughes3304]

Excellent articulation by Will Moore. Had not heard of him before this but he delivered a very humane and rational argument for a more reasoned approach to animal rights. I’m enjoying the Spectator channel a lot. Cindy is a great host

[@Logies_right_hand]

Andrew Neil is a treasure. I’d love for him to interview Patrick Harvie and Mrs Murrell on their coalition of chaos

[@leoncameron9253]

*Mrs Sturgeon

[@kitmcselby]

How anyone living in Scotland can be "anti car" is absolutely mental, in some places in Scotland not having a car could be a death sentence for some, it's madness.

[@egil29prey]

Excellent analysis from Andrew Neil as usual!

[@AngryBootneck]

Nice to see Andrew back

[@francescarose1453]

Always great to see and hear Andrew. Great video comment.

[@peterloxham502]

Once again an hour of incredibly informative information, based on fact, which in normal life is lacking, so thank you so much!

[@banjo1434]

Excellent analysis of the Afghan disaster by Andrew. Outstanding discussion over animal rights. Time well spent. Many thanks.

[@rob5944]

The SNP (who's drive for independence is largely based on oil and gas) and the Greens who (presumably) don't want anything to do with such things make strange bedfellows.

[@mataform]

Will Moore needs to be grateful for all the wretched animals who have been experimented on for the drugs and possible medical interventions that he and his family will have benefited from. I work with my horses to enable people with PTSD and addictions to find their way through. Thank goodness for Mr Dyer. A civilized society recognises the sentience of other animals/species who unwittingly bring enormous love and beauty to our world. I look across the world at the places where animals are considered merely things for the use of humans and I despair. Its striking that the cultures where women are mostly abused and relegated to a lowly, repressed and abused status are the ones where animals are simply seen for the most part as 'things'. Animals and women in those cultures have a lot in common.

[@AMBK]

Well said.

[@YouTubeAccount-pk9yl]

I love Cindy 🥰

[@AK-he8ft]

Animal rights is not a kin to human rights since we are not asking for them to have the right to obtain a driving license. However, non-human animals ARE rights bearers because they have the structure that makes experience possible. When I refer to rights, I'm talking about universal/moral rights. They don't have legal rights yet, but they will eventually. Basic legal rights such as the right to life. They don't need to be able to bear duties for legal rights to be granted to them.

[@stephenkiely118]

Excellent show, as always. Richard Beard was interesting to listen to, but, I am not sure that his analysis really holds water. "Everyone who goes on to do bad things does so as a result of boarding school, an everyone who does good things does them despite boarding school" is a remarkably convenient standpoint to argue from!

[@quentinnewark2745]

Yes when Cindy tried to interject that he is a six-time novelist, he breezed over it. If you swap the word ‘damaged’ for ‘shaped’, it makes more sense. Beard was shaped by being separated from his family, and being very well educated, and has gone onto write six novels. Johnson went onto become Prime Minister. Etc. If you want real damage, what about some of the inner city schools, with stabbings outside their gates? I’d rather my daughter be shaped by Harrow than a south London comprehensive any day.

[@jimbo5973]

This is what comes from letting your ideology overrule your intellectual honesty.

[@AMBK]

Some say that the indicator of a civilised society is how they treat their animals. One of the early indicators of psychopathy can be the mistreatment of animals. Human rights are in no way diminished by people caring about the rights of defenceless animals so I don’t quite see the connection. I’m proud to live in a country known as a nation of animal lovers, it shows that on the whole we are a compassionate society. Personally I believe that as the dominant species we have a moral duty to protect and care for the flora and fauna that inhabit the planet with us. And any question of the sentience of animals is utterly ridiculous to me, I am certain that anyone who has ever had a dog would confirm that they absolutely are sentient because they love us.

[@johnnyboy1014]

A good episode thank you.

[@robertb6076]

Dominic Dyer is absolutely right.

[@banjo1434]

They were both right. It was a hugely edifying exchange.

[@MichaelGarland]

Andrew for speaker of the house.

[@sootandstars]

Hope Andrew focuses on developing this "network" it oozes class compared to the low budget tabloid guff presented on gbnews

[@sisiphas]

Making light of difficult subjects is not confined to boarding schools. Its a defensie against being overwhelmed and as such it is a functional strategy.

[@guywilson8598]

Great to see and hear from Andrew Neil again - but his highly credible assessment of the situation at the end of his piece is worrying.

[@banjo1434]

He nailed it. We are witnessing the end of the Western epoch.

[@davidrichardson5153]

It doesn’t matter who sits in power if we the people say NO.

[@andrewmac3117]

I am not sure Rod Liddle would agree that he is "right wing" as Dominic said.

[@VaucluseVanguard]

The Green Party Ministerial Jobs in the Scottish parliament are a depressing example of woke wank. Day-by-day I have to admit I'm glad I no longer live in the UK and I have decided not to bother replacing my British passport and stick with the two other nationalities I hold. Never though I would say that about the country of my birth.

[@syddog44]

Can I ask you what country you live in atm.

[@briancarno8837]

aww come on surely you must miss the rubbish strewn streets casual swearing and mentally ill homeless begging in the streets

[@VaucluseVanguard]

@@briancarno8837 Funnily I currently live/work in a western country even more divided by woke wank - indeed the home of woke wank - but on retirement in a few years time I will retire to my home in the great 'out-back' and have as little to do with urban woke wankery as I can.

[@VaucluseVanguard]

@@syddog44 Another one full of woke wankery, but large enough and with a small enough population for me to get as far away from it when I retire in a few years time.

[@briancarno8837]

@@VaucluseVanguard thats OK till you need a pint of milk and the nearest shop is 10 miles away...Every time I hear the word outback my mind snaps back to the walkabout film and Jenny Agguter swimming naked in the pond..Why did she have to do the backstroke WHY...!!!!

[@jamesroutledge9639]

Kate Andrew presents statistics expertly and offers thought provoking analysis.

[@solomonmelides3301]

I fixed the last section: man is lucky enough to receive a (very expensive) top class education, which opens numerous doors for him, opportunities that make most of the rest of us green eyed, and complains about it. Talk about ungrateful.... As for animal man: I have no idea if he was right or not, but he was incredible self righteous.

[@amoontube]

The Spectavda achieves new levels of intellectual insouciance.

[@rob5944]

I just cannot believe that no one in the US or US had any idea of what would happen when they pulled their last forces out. It's incredible that given military advisors had been instructing and building the Afghan army for years the performance of who could not be gauged or foreseen. James' assessment of how the Americans will now approach potential terrorist threats globally is pretty much spot on.

[@kevinrobb86]

Worried about people dying in Scotland from covid as drug deaths and alcohol addiction is going through the roof

[@Dimera09]

Cindy 😍

[@sabineyenen5575]

Thank you Dominic Dyer for your correct representation of operation ark.

[@ag-fd1py]

Andrew doesn't seem himself, hope he is well.

[@stoufer2000]

Hope he isn't

[@nickstevens9172]

Threatened?

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

He's probably quite troubled over GB News.

[@mrlegkick91]

@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat what's going on with gb news?

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

@@mrlegkick91 No one knows for sure; although rumour is that Neil is having problems with one of the backers over the future direction of the channel.

[@NH-vo7ch]

Good contribution from Andrew Neil. I wish someone would do a piece on the huge proliferation of ministerial posts, which obviously results in shadow ministers, departments, support staff etc, and obviously wage rises for MPs. I expect well over half have some ministerial post or are on some select committee to boost their wages and it costs the taxpayer dearly, and probably hinders good government. Now the situation in Scotland where we not only have an expensive Parliament replicating Westminster but examples of more made up posts.

[@mytinplaterailway]

James really needs to stop saying ' you know'.

[@ceciliawedgwood4321]

And stop swallowing his words.

[@glynparry6598]

You can please some of the people some of the time but never all the people all the time. Hey?

[@Ygyhhhhhhhh]

If only the "news" teams at the BBC and Sky watched programmes like this they would learn how to do news. But they won't watch it. Their natural home is the wretchedly predictable and self-congratulatory Guardian echo chamber. Cindy is an excellent anchor. (Their best?)

[@mrbiffa5038]

Prediction... 2030... "My dog deserves the right to vote you bigot!"

[@jamesconboy1491]

Heart breaking to hear the West's support for drug/war lords and the almost industrial scale of corruption in Afghanistan being completly absent in the debate reflecting on the occupation. Raab I suppect will be in a new role by 3rd October. Conference may well express their dispeasure if he is not.

[@rob5944]

Should we be trying to tell a foreign nation, moreover a foreign culture, how to treat their women and citizens on general? After all, we think we are righteous and occupy the moral high ground but are we really, when it means trying to create a society in strange lands in our own image? One could also apply that same logic to integrating refugees into our society. Has it really worked and indeed, can it really be done? Personally I'm far from convinced and at present don't think it's an answer to anything.

[@Skippy19812]

I mean, it's not rocket science. Animals are generally weaker than humans therefore humans want to protect them. The desire to protect and provide for something weaker is how humans got to the top of the food chain in the first place. Our offspring are weaker than other animal's offspring, and require protection and supervision for a longer period of time. We developed instincts to counterbalance that evolutionary weakness, instincts that we frequently project onto other creatures. There is nothing wrong with this in and of itself. It is a strength of our species and one we should be embracing. Human exceptionalism is kind of how we got into the mess of climate change and mass extinctions in the first place. If anything we need to put animal welfare far further up the agenda than we currently do, for our own sake as much as for theirs. It's not about political allegiances or dehumanising other humans, it's about preventing the planet from becoming an uninhabitable wasteland.

[@chicktait5544]

Yes the A9 is a dangerous road,nearly got wiped out by someone overtaking the old campervan in front of them,one week after a whole family died the same way.

[@nickstevens9172]

Dominic Dyer wasn’t on this show to debate the issue, instead he just wanted to shill his cause. Disappointing.

[@AngryBootneck]

Yes, but Dominic Dyer is right, and Ben Wallace and the rest of our MPs are lying scum. Its all well and good slagging off the dogs, the mangiest hound in the dirtiest Afghan wadi is STILL less verminous than a British MP!

[@pedazodetorpedo]

He came across as an arrogant, deluded megalomaniac. "That's why I ripped a strip off Wallace, that's why I took Quentin to task and that's why he lost!"

[@AngryBootneck]

@@pedazodetorpedo No, he stated some facts, it doesn't matter how you dress it up, you can never turn an honest man into a liar. Their language is coarse, they aren't practiced politicians, and they haven't got the smooth charm and the oratory skill, but the simple force of their argument is clear. They are telling the truth, and Wallace and Quentin are liars, leakers, and thieves. Typical of the self serving scum that infest parliament. You believe a career politciian if you like, I'll go with the ordinary blokes over the oily lawyers and politicians. Who else do you trust, used cars salesmen and registered sex offenders? 😂😂

[@nickstevens9172]

What is it that Dominic Dyer is ‘right’ about, to use your phrasing?

[@Peter-qf6lx]

@@pedazodetorpedo I found him frightening! Speed of speech. Certainty of being right. Use of social media as a weapon to achieve ends. Extremely off-putting.

[@HeWhoLaugths]

"Great to see Spectator TV doing so well!" Ouch GB News

[@christinehirst317]

I watch both.

[@vicicooper4720]

Putting animal lives on an equal footing with human lives? Where is the moral dilemma? Clearly the William Moore is categorising humans (who are animals) as apart and superior. Isn't this the basis of racism?

[@andrewoliver8930]

Is Andrew Neil still on GB News or has he left it?

[@briancarno8837]

wheres the money Nic..?

[@olivierbeltrami]

Love your show, unless the topic is Scotland or France.

[@sisiphas]

Having a ‘standaard to good time’ in school is sadly not common among young people in comprehensie schools. Look at the ‘anxiety pandemic’ among tbe young State educated people.

[@robertreynolds2702]

SLOW DOWN.

[@jamesgibson2179]

Another MSM chat show. Not enough scepticism or basic questioning. Nobody talking about the ILLEGAL invasion of Afghanistan which is the.context for the current situation. Nobody discussing WHY the US aggressors are leaving so suddenly. Nobody sceptically analysing the basis of COVID statistics e.g. what IS a Covid death ? (Showing graphs is not enough) Nobody questioning why children should be vaccinated when they have very good immune systems. Nowhere near sharp enough for my liking. No debate !

[@rocketpig1914]

Illegal under what law? I thought they had the UN resolution for Afghanistan.

[@anthonyrybicki1000]

@@rocketpig1914 no it was sanctioned as a NATO mutual self defence provision but by extension under article 51 of the UN charter as an act of self defence in order to prevent further 9/11 events.The UN security Council is locked in stalemate on most resolutions due to east/west tensions.

[@cloudstrife206]

Couldn’t agree more with Andrew… something north of the border reeks of manure

[@HughSmith]

Unfortunately unsubscribed after @andrew Neil's appearance on Question Time

[@billclarke3773]

The Tories are ahead in the polls whereas after eleven years Maggie and Bliar were behind at a similar point is because of the anger towards the left among English voters over mass immigration and grooming gangs. Immigration is now the only political issue that counts, so serious do people believe the fundamental changes in our country to have been as a result of it.

[@tomthumb2361]

Mr Beard ought to look into the traumatic, even crippling, effects of going to a ropey maintained school. Collectively, the effects of these schools are as damaging to society as the peculiar upbringing of a few nobs. The constant foregrounding of the Public School in public debate is a sign of the Establishment talking to itself and not having a clue about, or any real interest in, people from other parts of society - their votes excepted, of course, and new legislation seems aimed at reducing these . Also the features that he talks about are "caste" features as much as, or more than, they are "psychological", and characteristic of this elevated, largely-southern web of individuals and groups. Other elements, segments or strata of society only don't produce leaders in greater numbers because they are excluded from the nexus of networks of which the Public Schools (by no means all independent schools) and the Tory Party form the core. Indeed, the Tory Party and its associated networks seek ceaselessly to neutralise, control or in some way dominate other collectivities, associations, institutions or social realms - as with the universities and the media - or even expunge them - as with the unions. Torydom is an enterprise aimed at re-establishing hierarchical structures whenever it looks as though something more even-spread or, dare I say, democratic is emerging.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Andrew is badly out of touch with Scotland and 2021. Local authorities need the Land Value Tax.

[@nigecheshire9854]

Why don’t you vote for the Green Party then?

[@Zakalwe-01]

No mention of GB News, but AN certainly looked much more comfortable with the posh Spectator lot...

[@DS9TREK]

Why would he mention it?

[@Zakalwe-01]

@@DS9TREK lol you serious?

[@markosborne3869]

Seems Andrew will have rather more time for Spectator TV than he planned…

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

GB news is Farage news now or at least Farage acolytes

[@markosborne3869]

@@Marvin-dg8vj I’m sure Andrew would be welcome back to rebalance a little. What’s his alternative? Start ANOTHER channel?!

[@misomiso8228]

17:06 the fact the Tories still can't beat the SNP is an indictment of the political system. Only an independent Scottish People's Party can take on the SNP, as only an independent party can contest the Scottish identity.

[@Evemeister12]

Oi Neil, get your ass back to GB news.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

Because the Taliban can't wait to get hold of translators for animal charities. Really? They are not refugees, they are all chancers for a life in the west. Afghanistan is not what it is because of its geography. It is the way it is because of its people and the attitudes that the vast majority of them hold. If we take large numbers of them, we will become more like there. We must take refugees from Afghanistan because life is terrible for women there. But wait, the photo on the back of the plane was just vast numbers of men of fighting age...who did not fight.

[@jenniferjenkins1341]

I wonder if the Taliban would take 'reprisals' against the dogs left behind, knowing how they feel about western culture. Look at what the Russians did to the horses in the Royal Hungarian Stables at the end of the war because they saw the horses as a statement about privilege. I wonder if this fear was an element in the drive to get the dogs out..

[@glowmentor]

What is a 'super majority'?

[@andreare7766]

Aaarrggghhh... I cannot watch it live that I have to take my daughter to scouts. Och well, something to look forward to tonight. Has Kate changed her hair or something? She doesn't look quite her usual self...

[@quentinnewark2745]

She got married.

[@unreasonable3589]

Can the Spectator find no-one with good diction for their videos?

[@philmayfield8326]

Cindy Yu is excellent

[@unreasonable3589]

@@philmayfield8326 Fair enough, I agree Yu's diction is good; but she is much easier to listen to when the video is played at 0.75 speed, which gives the added benefit of being able to look at her for longer; but then the others are unbearable. Maybe it is just me. I prefer a properly edited essay to these conversations anyway. Probably time to unsubscribe from the channel.

[@mrlegkick91]

Username checks out lol

[@lordkorner]

My god, it's amateur hour.

[@MoranM]

Mr Moore never articulated exactly why all humans must inevitably be regarded by all other humans as having more moral worth than all animals. I've yet to hear a coherent justification for that belief. It can be perfectly rational and moral to value some animals more than some humans, particularly where those humans have a net (morally) negative impact upon this world.

[@DS9TREK]

Humans are sapient, animals are not. That's why humans are worth more.

[@MoranM]

@@DS9TREK Many animals problem solve in a way that evidences 'sapience'. Further, chemical signatures associated with human emotions are also to be found in many animals and accordingly emotional behaviours are clearly observed in animals. But even so, it's not self-evident that 'sapience' equates to moral worth. Unless by 'sapient' you mean something like 'self-aware' which is not how I understand the word and neither is it true that animals are not self-aware.

[@LexFez]

SpectatorTV, sponsored by...the British Dental Association

[@julianshepherd2038]

Active travel means spending money on walking and cycling infrastructure. Green skills required to transition the energy sector Have a Google, there are £100s billions lined up for breen energy

[@anthonyrybicki1000]

But no significant money for improved East West rail links in the North.Does the green agenda stop at the Scottish border? In the meantime this government keeps shovelling money into crossrail and HS2.

[@AK-he8ft]

Why did you delete my comment!!!

[@trickyg3693]

Can't believe you gave up on GB news so soon. Very embarrassing.

[@lewisbrand]

173 animals tick, 68 humans no tick. Well done, carry on.

[@edmundironside9435]

16:50 Is it? It gets around 20-30,000 views per video these days, I wouldn't say that makes great viewing figures. Although, it's better than GB News I guess.

[@ProfessorPesca]

I really enjoy James’ analysis in the Spectator magazine, mainly I think because I can’t be distracted by his appalling hair in print.

[@quentinnewark2745]

Hair and teeth. He needs to submit himself to one of those radical make-over shows.

[@weedheals4202]

Take the royals lands. Why do they need so much? Spread the wealth

[@julianshepherd2038]

Scottish independence needs a business plan. Green energy and energy efficient transport and buildings is a part of it. The Greens need Scottish independence to get their policies carried out as Westminster is still for using all carbon based energy they can.

[@keithhart824]

Oh but there is. Ask the McVitie buscuit folk

[@julianshepherd2038]

The Greens SNP agreement excludes the dualing of the A9. Its not the dangerous road it was when Andrew live in Scotland

[@taffyddu]

It's still an awful run from Stirling to Pitlochry, but improved since the new speed limits were introduced.

[@weedheals4202]

He says rent controls are bad… for whom Andrew? The rich? Or the people who need the rents to be lowered? When Andrew and his like are no longer on the planet and off into space or heaven or hell… whichever he chooses, I think the better it will be. So out of touch with the people on the ground it’s unbelievable. Smh

[@neilford7338]

Scottish schools go back earlier than rest of UK, so spike in covid infections. There will be a similar effect in England etc in a few weeks, so it's hardly an SNP failure. You need a new script Andrew!

[@steviedonoghue]

😆😆😅😆😆😆😆

[@julianshepherd2038]

No high speed train project in Scotland because its a Westminster affair. I'm bored with this, he should get Google and check stuff or go back to his BBC researchers.

[@pamelahayton9232]

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[@IanParker]

To quote a Minister of state... regarding William More.. "he is talking bollocks" Animals are sentient, just because Mr More does not understand their language, does not mean they do not have one. The major challenge with some people, is lack of understanding.. hey ho! p.s. I'm very much on the right of politics, yes a proud vegan.... not your typical animal rights person, things are changing!!!

[@nickstevens9172]

I totally agree, your major challenge is indeed lack of understanding. The question of animal sentience was not the subject under discussion.

[@IanParker]

@@nickstevens9172 depends on how you view it!.. whilst he did not mention animals being sentient, is shows the overall lack of understanding, on what a sentient being is.

[@nickstevens9172]

How so? Your complaint is not a matter of a different view, you are raising a totally different question.

[@DS9TREK]

Animals are sentient but they aren't sapient. You can't put them on par with humans

[@IanParker]

@@DS9TREK with respect, maybe you cannot, however some of us do! All the best to you.

[@maggiealexander4816]

Stop lying. Greta never actually said that. It's ridiculous the way you bring Scotland down. I'm no friend of the SNP but ffs grow up.