Best of the Spectator
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2368
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Americano: What do Republicans think of Lord Cameron?
Freddy Gray speaks to Americano regular Jacob Heilbrunn about Lord Cameron's recent visit to DC, where he persuaded Congress to pass a bill sending aid to Ukraine. Jacob and Freddy also discuss why J…
00:25:14 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Women With Balls: Justine Greening
Justine Greening was born in Rotherham, the daughter of a steel worker and first in her family to go to university. Campaigning for the Conservatives, she won back a Tory stronghold from Labour in th…
00:33:12 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
The Edition: Is Nato ready for war with Russia?
Welcome to a slightly new format for the Edition podcast! Each week we will be talking about the magazine – as per usual – but trying to give a little more insight into the process behind putting The…
00:37:35 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
What happened to the Democratic Party?
Freddy Gray speaks to author Joshua Green who wrote The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics. On the podcast they discuss t…
00:37:58 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Which way will the swing states go?
Freddy Gray speaks to JL Partners Director Scarlett Maguire about America's swing states which could decide the general election.
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00:11:57 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
The Book Club: Chris Bryant
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Chris Bryant, who tells me about his new book James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder. In it, he seeks to tell what can be known of the lives…
00:32:41 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Table Talk: Professor Charles Spence
Professor Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on how an in-depth understanding of the human mind will lead to the better design of multi-s…
00:33:42 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Americano: how bad is the border crisis?
Freddy is joined by Todd Bensman, fellow at the Centre for Immigration Studies and author of Overrun: how Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in US history. They discuss how to solve what …
00:32:59 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, Paul Mason, Robbie Mallett and Lloyd Evans
This week: Svitlana Morenets takes us inside Ukraine's new plan for mass conscription (01:01); Paul Mason says that Labour is right to ditch its £28 billion green pledge (10:49); Robbie Mallett tells…
00:26:16 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
Action Men: the false ‘liberation’ of the sex trade
Julie Bindel speaks to Björn Suttka, anti-sexist campaigner and co-founder of Male Allies Challenging Sexism. On the show they discuss how Björn changed his mind about the liberal approach to porn an…
00:29:46 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
The Edition: inside the plot to take down Rishi Sunak
Welcome to a slightly new format for the Edition podcast! Each week will be talking about the magazine – as per usual – but trying to give a little more insight into the process behind putting The Sp…
00:42:11 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
The Book Club: Paula Byrne
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Paula Byrne. In her new book Hardy Women: Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Muses, she investigates the women in the life and work of the great poet and novelist T…
00:43:10 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
Americano: Is 2024 a ‘flip election’?
Freddy Gray is joined by pollster and writer Patrick Ruffini. They talk about why the strengthening economy isn’t improving Biden’s numbers, and the other factors that will influence the 2024 electio…
00:30:57 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
Chinese Whispers: why do people join the CCP?
At last count, the Chinese Communist Party has 98 million members, more people than the population of Germany. Its membership also continues to grow, making it one of the most successful and resilien…
00:46:58 |
Mon 05 Feb 2024
Americano: can Trump ever get a fair trial?
Last week Donald Trump was ordered to pay more than seventy million dollars to E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of sexual assault. Freddy speaks to Spectator columnist Lionel Shriver about…
00:15:14 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Lionel Shriver, Angus Colwell and Toby Young
On this week’s episode, Lionel Shriver asks if Donald Trump can get a fair trial in America (00:39), Angus Colwell speaks to the Gen-Zers who would fight for Britain (08:25), Matthew Parris makes the…
00:32:02 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
Does the Biden administration know what it’s doing with Iran?
Freddy Gray is joined in the office by Mike Baker a former CIA operations officer, CEO of the global intelligence and security firm Portman Square Group and host of the popular news podcast the Presi…
00:46:44 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Women With Balls: Gina Miller
Gina Miller was born in Guyana to a political family, but was sent to England for her education. Fleeing dictatorship, she couldn’t receive financial support from her family, and so began finding wor…
00:33:47 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
The Edition: how the Tories gave up on liberty
On the podcast: have the Tories given up on liberty?
Kate Andrews writes the cover story for The Spectator this week. She argues that after the government announced plans to ban disposable vapes and …
Kate Andrews writes the cover story for The Spectator this week. She argues that after the government announced plans to ban disposable vapes and …
00:42:39 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
The Book Club: Sathnam Sanghera
In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is Sathnam Sanghera, author of the new book Empireworld about the effect of British imperialism around the globe. He tells me why he's trying to get beyond t…
00:44:11 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
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