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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2366
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Coffee House Shots: Reform in 'poll' position
It's happened. Reform are now ahead of Labour, according to a voting intention poll by YouGov. Reform leads the landmark poll with 25 points, with Labour languishing all the way down in second place …
00:12:52 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Americano: are Trump's tariffs really that bad?
The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews and Social Democratic Party leader William Clouston join Freddy Gray to try and make sense of Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico…
00:33:39 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
Table Talk: Jeremy Chan
Jeremy Chan is the head chef and owner of Ikoyi, a West African-inspired restaurant that celebrates British seasonality. He is also the author of a cookbook of the same name.
On the podcast, he tells …
On the podcast, he tells …
00:19:26 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
Holy Smoke: are Syrian Christians who speak the language of Jesus about to disappear after 2,000 years?
There has been a Christian community in Syria since the first century AD. But it is shrinking fast and faces terrifying new threats as the country’s government, following the overthrow of President A…
00:25:21 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
Spectator Out Loud: Loyd Grossman, Tanya Gold, Harry Halem, Angus Colwell, Philippe Sands and Michael Simmons
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Loyd Grossman pleads to save Britain's cathedrals, as he reads his diary for the week (1:31); Unity Mitford is a classic case of aristocratic anti-Semitism says Tan…
00:44:53 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
Americano: are the Democrats paralysed?
The first phase of Trump’s presidency has been a whirlwind of news. The President signed a succession of executive orders, which overwhelmed and confused the Democratic Party with the amount of ‘ener…
00:35:39 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
The Edition: migration mystery, Ipso’s trans muddle & are you a ‘trad dad’?
This week: why don’t we know how many people are in Britain?
How many people live in the UK? It’s a straightforward question, yet the answer eludes some of the nation’s brightest statistical minds, wr…
How many people live in the UK? It’s a straightforward question, yet the answer eludes some of the nation’s brightest statistical minds, wr…
00:45:38 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
Americano: how is round one of Trump’s deportations plan going?
Colombia has agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants from the US – avoiding a trade war between the two countries. Donald Trump had threatened sanctions on Colombia to punish it…
00:32:17 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
The Book Club: The Surreal Joys of Father Ted
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the novelist Lissa Evans, talking about her previous life as the producer of the sitcom Father Ted – as described in her new book Picnic on Craggy Island:…
00:30:23 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
Chinese Whispers: What is China's 'United Front' agenda?
** Chinese Whispers is nominated in the Political Podcast Awards 2025. Vote for it to win the People's Choice category here **
When Chinese spy scandals break, like the latest involving Prince Andrew …
When Chinese spy scandals break, like the latest involving Prince Andrew …
00:33:31 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Americano: what will Trump's crypto world look like?
** Americano is nominated in the Political Podcast Awards 2025. Vote for it to win the People's Choice category here **
Cryptocurrency became a key feature of the American election and the Trump unive…
Cryptocurrency became a key feature of the American election and the Trump unive…
00:19:16 |
Mon 27 Jan 2025
Holy Smoke: Could Trump 2.0. herald a new era of religious liberty in America?
Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, director of the US-based Conscience Project and a friend of Holy Smoke, joins Damian to talk about what the incoming second Trump administration could mean for religious freed…
00:35:44 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
Coffee House Shots: what Labour and the Tories can learn from Pierre Poilievre
For the past fortnight, Canada’s Parliament has been empty. After Justin Trudeau resigned as Liberal leader, all the polls are pointing to the likelihood that Canada will become another example of th…
00:13:24 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Tanya Gold, Rose George, Toby Young and Rory Sutherland
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray reads his letter from Washington D.C., and reveals what Liz Truss, Eric Zemmour and Steve Bannon made of Trump’s inauguration (1:22); Tanya Gold writes …
00:27:46 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Women With Balls: Rachael Maskell
Rachael Maskell has been the MP for York Central since 2015. With over two decades experience working in the NHS, and as a trade unionist, she has championed causes on the left from improving healthc…
00:36:55 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
The Edition: Industry tragedy, Trump vs the Pope & the depressing reality of sex parties
This week: the death of British industry
In the cover piece for the magazine, Matthew Lynn argues that Britain is in danger of entering a ‘zero-industrial society’. The country that gave the world the…
In the cover piece for the magazine, Matthew Lynn argues that Britain is in danger of entering a ‘zero-industrial society’. The country that gave the world the…
00:42:01 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
The Book Club: what we get wrong about The Great Gatsby
In this week’s Book Club podcast, we’re contemplating the astounding achievement of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in its 100th year. My guest is Professor Sarah Churchwell, author of Careles…
00:43:10 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Americano: 'I'm a Democrat who will give him a chance' - Lionel Shriver on Trump's inauguration
** Americano is nominated in the Political Podcast Awards 2025. Vote for it to win the People's Choice category here **
Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. All t…
Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. All t…
00:22:46 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Coffee House Shots: Could Trump 2.0 derail the Starmer project?
The parties - and protests - have already kicked off, as Trump's inauguration gets underway in Washington D.C. today. Katy Balls speaks to Michael Gove and Republicans Overseas UK's Sarah Elliott abo…
00:12:30 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove, Mary Wakefield, Mitchell Reiss, Max Jeffery and Nicholas Farrell
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove offers up some advice to Keir Starmer (1:33); Mary Wakefield examines the rise of the ‘divorce party’ (7:28); Mitchell Reiss looks at the promise and p…
00:31:46 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
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