Putin's nuclear threats & Bolsonaro's surprise – The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV

Freddy Gray, The Spectator’s deputy editor, speaks to former Pentagon official, and the author of The Strategy of Denial, Elbridge Colby about the risk of nuclear war with Russia: ‘I’m very suspicious of the ability to control the escalation.’ – Elbridge Colby Mark Galeotti, a Spectator contributor and the director of Mayak Intelligence, joins Elbridge, and says we ned to get tougher with Putin. On the rest of the show, our politics team James Forsyth and Katy Balls discuss Truss’s speech at the Conservative party conference, our economics editor Kate Andrews and Mark Littlewood, the director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, look at whether Trussonomics is doomed already, and our columnist Rod Liddle explains how he gave up smoking. // THIS EPISODE 00:00 – Welcome from Freddy Gray 02:08 – Can Truss bounce back? With James Forsyth and Katy Balls 14:20 – Is Trussonomics finished? With Kate Andrews and Mark Littlewood 30:59 – Would Putin use nukes? With Mark Galeotti and Elbridge Colby 48:36 – Could Bolsonaro win again? With Andrew Downie 59:49 – Rod Liddle: Why I gave up smoking // SUBSCRIBE TO THE SPECTATOR Try a month of The Spectator, in print and online, completely free https://www.spectator.co.uk/tvoffer // FOLLOW US   / spectator     / officialspectator     / the-spectator     / spectator1828   Theme song written and performed by Jon Barker © 2020 Jonathan Stewart Barker Publisher Jonathan Stewart Barker 100%, administered by prsformusic.com Recording © 2020 Jonathan Stewart Barker 100%, administered by ppl.com