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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2366
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Women With Balls: Claire Ainsley
Claire Ainsley is a stalwart of left-wing politics. Formerly an executive director at social change organisation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, she is currently leading a project on the renewal of t…
00:42:10 |
Sun 24 Nov 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Parris, Joanna Bell, Peter Frankopan, Mary Wakefield and Flora Watkins
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: pondering AI, Matthew Parris wonders if he is alone in thinking (1:10); Joanna Bell meets the leader of the Independent Ireland party, Michael Collins, ahead of the…
00:37:52 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
Americano: the ‘experts’ who enabled RFK Jr’s rise
The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be secretary of health and human services in the second Trump administration has horrified ‘experts’. A left-wing Democrat who admires the late Venezuelan Ma…
00:21:44 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
The Edition: Streeting vs Starmer, medical misinformation & the surprising history of phallic graffiti
This week: Wild Wes.
Ahead of next week’s vote on whether to legalise assisted dying, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is causing trouble for Keir Starmer, writes Katy Balls in the magazine this week. S…
Ahead of next week’s vote on whether to legalise assisted dying, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is causing trouble for Keir Starmer, writes Katy Balls in the magazine this week. S…
00:43:15 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
The Book Club: Josh Cohen
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the psychoanalyst and writer Josh Cohen. With anger seemingly the default condition of our time, Josh’s new book All The Rage: Why Anger Drives the World …
00:38:03 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Americano: what is Trump 2.0 going to do with the world?
Freddy Gray sits down with Jacob Heilbrunn, a longstanding friend of Americano to discuss Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to send long range missiles into Russia, how significant this decision is a…
00:25:40 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Table Talk: Julian Metcalfe, founder of Itsu
Julian Metcalfe is a British entrepreneur and one of the most influential individuals on the London high street. He revolutionised the grab-and-go lunchtime food industry in 1986 by co-founding Pret …
00:27:43 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Americano: Douglas Murray on Elon Musk - will he make America great again?
As Donald Trump selects his new cabinet, Elon Musk has been chosen to head up the new efficiency department. Douglas Murray, Spectator columnist, joins Americano host Freddy Gray to discuss. How will…
00:27:21 |
Mon 18 Nov 2024
Taxes, tariffs and Trump: What lies ahead for Labour?
The Spectator's Michael Gove, Katy Balls, and Kate Andrews are joined by Paul Abberley, Chief Executive of Charles Stanley, to discuss and unpack Labour's first budget in 14 years. Now the dust has s…
01:02:12 |
Sun 17 Nov 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Nadine Dorries, Katy Balls, Edmund West, Sam Dalrymple, and Tanjil Rashid
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Nadine Dorries reads her diary (1:12); Katy Balls analyses the politics behind the Assisted Dying debate (5:58); Edmund West allows us a glimpse into Whitby Goth We…
00:32:04 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
Americano: can Donald Trump deliver on his pledge to fix the border?
Freddy Gray is joined by Todd Bensman, journalist and fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. They discuss the border crisis that Trump will inherit from the Democrats, and whether he can do an…
00:23:07 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
The Edition: Elon's America, Welby's legacy & celebrating Beaujolais Day
This week: welcome to Planet Elon.
We knew that he would likely be a big part of Donald Trump’s second term, so it was unsurprising when this week Elon Musk was named – alongside entrepreneur Vivek Ra…
We knew that he would likely be a big part of Donald Trump’s second term, so it was unsurprising when this week Elon Musk was named – alongside entrepreneur Vivek Ra…
00:44:58 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
The Book Club: Michael Moorcock
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the writer, musician and editor Michael Moorcock, whose editorship of New Worlds magazine is widely credited with ushering in a 'new wave' of science fict…
00:43:10 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
Americano: can Trump really end the war in Ukraine?
Freddy Gray speaks to the Spectator's Russia editor Owen Matthews about Trump's plan for Ukraine. How much leverage does he have in negotiations with Putin? Plus, what does a Trump presidency mean fo…
00:31:25 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
Holy Smoke: Welby resigns - crisis at the Church of England
After mounting pressure, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned. His resignation comes days after a damning report into the child abuser John Smyth who was associated with the Church …
00:18:15 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Chinese Whispers: Why Beijing is wary of a Russo-North Korean alliance
There have been reports that some 11,000 North Korean troops are present in Russia and preparing to take part in the Russian invasion. While not acknowledged by either country, if true, this would ma…
00:55:47 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
Americano: will Trump make good on his election promises?
Kate Andrews, standing in for Freddy Gray, is joined by Nick Gillespie, host of The Reason Interview, and Freddy Gray himself. They discuss whether Trump 2.0 could be different in his final time in o…
00:31:55 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
Holy Smoke: Did Christianity create secular humanism?
Since the election of an overwhelmingly secular Labour government, people who describe themselves as humanists have a spring in their step: for example, there's a prospect that humanist weddings will…
00:33:04 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
Americano: are we about to see Trump unleashed?
Kamala Harris has delivered her concession speech, signalling the start of the Democrat post-mortem. Donald Trump has secured a total victory, the kind which gives him a mandate to make some pretty r…
00:32:00 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Sean Thomas, Imogen Yates, Books of the Year II, and Alan Steadman
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood analyses what a Trump victory could mean for the Middle East (1:16); Sean Thomas gets a glimpse of a childless future while travelling in South Korea (8:3…
00:29:37 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
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