Tim Shipman

Well, you give your answer to the question, Ian.

So you remember, I'm sure, because you would have covered it, when she gave an interview to Tim Shipman in The Spectator and she gave an inch on a coalition.

And I think it was, you know, the front page the next day and it had to be hosed down so rapidly.

Because everyone knows it's true.

Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, the podcast where each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Abigail Briley, and in this week's episode, Tim Shipman explores why Ed Miliband's Israeli sanctions have helped Netanyahu.

We hear from Charles Steele on the autistocracy and the men on the spectrum who rule our world.

Alex Diggins talks to the man who is trying to save Britain's last great map library.

And finally, Rachel Johnson admits she's not the world's best present buyer.

First up, here's Tim Shipman.

When Andy Burnham was quizzed at PMQs last week about his and Ed Miliband's decision to sanction the Israeli government over its handling of Gaza, the Prime Minister was surprisingly frank about the trade-offs.

He presented it as a decision to prevent, quote, the collapse of the two-state solution for a peace deal in the Middle East, which he claimed was, quote, dying before our eyes.