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The Edition: can the American right recover? | with Tim Stanley
Thursday, 5 November, 2026

This week: Lara Prendergast is joined by Michael Gove, Tali Fraser and Tim Stanley.Has Labour lost control of Britain's prisons? As the government's early release scheme comes under increasing scrutiny, Michael Gove diagnoses the failures of the prison system and the growing strain on probation services.Meanwhile, following a bruising set of US midterm results for Donald Trump, what next for the American right? Tim Stanley discusses the Republicans' increasingly nasty politics, the battle to succeed Trump and whether the president could escalate the war in Iran.Plus: are lab-grown diamonds unbearably tacky? And why are the posh flocking to Poundland? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.