Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown
From our UK edition
33 min listen
This week:In her cover piece for The Spectator, Harriet Sergeant asks what's happened pupil absence which has increased since the pandemic. She is joined by The Spectator's data editor Michael Simmons to account for the staggering number of children who were failed by the government's Covid response (01:08). Also this week: Owen Matthews, The Spectator's Russia correspondent, looks at the opposition candidate who could usurp President Erdogan in Turkey. He joins the podcast alongside Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran to discuss whether it really could be the end of Erdogan's two decade long hold over Turkish politics (14:48).
