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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Women With Balls: Lucy Frazer
Lucy Frazer is the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Prior to this role in government, Lucy held several ministerial positions from the Department Transport to the Ministry of Justice.…
00:28:31 |
Fri 28 Jul 2023
The Edition: Bankrolled
In this week’s cover story, The Spectator’s political editor Katy Balls writes about Labour’s new paymasters – Keir Starmer’s party now receives more money from private donors than it does from trade…
00:36:13 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
The Book Club: James Ball
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the investigative and tech writer James Ball, to talk about his new book The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World. In it, James traces the ris…
00:55:30 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
Chinese Whispers: did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?
In the 1800s, Qing China’s final century, European powers were expanding eastwards. The industrialised West, with its gunboats and muskets, and the soft power of Christianity, pushed around the dynas…
00:36:47 |
Mon 24 Jul 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Mary Wakefield, Gareth Roberts and Rachel Johnson
This week (01.13) Freddy Gray, on why Ron De Santis is no longer ‘de future’ in the race for the Presidency, (09.50) Mary Wakefield recounts the train journey from hell,
(16.10) we hear from Gareth Ro…
(16.10) we hear from Gareth Ro…
00:27:42 |
Sat 22 Jul 2023
The Edition: Road rage
This week:
In his cover piece for the magazine Ross Clark writes about ‘the war on motorists'. He argues that the backlash against London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s expansion of Ulez is just the beginning, a…
In his cover piece for the magazine Ross Clark writes about ‘the war on motorists'. He argues that the backlash against London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s expansion of Ulez is just the beginning, a…
00:38:00 |
Thu 20 Jul 2023
The Book Club: Ferdinand Mount
In this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Ferdinand Mount who in his long career has been literary and political editor of this very magazine, as well as editor of the TLS and head of Margaret T…
00:40:11 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
Marshall Matters: Yeonmi Park
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector who from fled home country through China where she was saved by Christian missionaries. She is the author of two books, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's …
01:07:25 |
Tue 18 Jul 2023
Americano: What went wrong for Ron DeSantis?
Freddy is joined this week by Roger Kimball, editor of the New Criterion to talk about the diminishing power of Ron DeSantis. It wasn't so long ago he looked like a serious challenger that could beat…
00:30:24 |
Tue 18 Jul 2023
Can Britain’s grid take the strain?
The way we use energy is changing. As electric heat pumps and electric vehicles become more popular, and as the government tries to phase out fossil fuels to reach its net zero target, some estimate …
00:33:17 |
Mon 17 Jul 2023
The Week in 60: Barbie Britain & Yudkowsky on death by AI
James Heale is joined by Tom Hunt MP and Tim Farron MP to debate the illegal migration bill. Also on the show, will AI kill us all? Eliezer Yudkowsky and James Phillips discuss; Katy Balls and Stephe…
01:09:00 |
Sun 16 Jul 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Olenka Hamilton, Damian Thompson
This week: (01:08) Katy Balls on the tricky relationship between Labour and the Unions, (07:11) Olenka Hamilton on why Poland is having a row with Brussels over migrants and asylum seekers and (15:29…
00:23:52 |
Sat 15 Jul 2023
Women With Balls: Cleo Watson
Cleo Watson is a former No.10 advisor to Boris Johnson and now author or the recently published book Whips, a novel set in SW1 filled with sex, politics and scandals. On the podcast, Cleo talks about…
00:29:20 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
The Edition: Barbie's world
This week:
Ahead of the release of the Barbie movie, Louise Perry writes in her cover piece about how social media is fuelling the cosmetic surgery industry. She argues that life in plastic is not, in…
Ahead of the release of the Barbie movie, Louise Perry writes in her cover piece about how social media is fuelling the cosmetic surgery industry. She argues that life in plastic is not, in…
00:39:14 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
Marshall Matters: Yoram Hazony
Yoram Hazony is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, political theorist and leader of the national conservatism movement. He discusses with Winston the differences between conservatism and…
01:10:24 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
The Book Club: Caitlin Moran
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Caitlin Moran. Having written one of the bestselling works of popular feminism of the last 20 years – How To Be A Woman – she has turned her attention to …
00:51:31 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
The Week in 60: The truth about the NHS & Andrew Neil on Europe's riots
Kate Andrews, The Spectator’s economics editor is joined by Andrew Neil and Jonathan Miller to discuss the riots taking place across France. As the NHS turns 75, Sajid Javid gives his thoughts on the…
01:02:05 |
Sun 09 Jul 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Kate Andrews, Igor Toronyi-Lalic and Ivo Dawnay
This week: Kate Andrews on the NHS and the celebrations that marked its 75th birthday (01:05), Igor Toronyi-Lalic is in Marseille watching with interest as the riots happen around him (06:57) and Ivo…
00:16:47 |
Sat 08 Jul 2023
Holy Smoke: escaping the atheist hell of North Korea
For 75 years, the most anti-Christian regime in modern history has thrown its citizens into prison camps if they are suspected of the slightest dissent. Ten per cent of people live in modern slavery;…
00:15:19 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
The Edition: why Europe riots
This week:
In the magazine we look at the recent protests in France. The Spectator's Douglas Murray argues that racism is not the problem but that a significant chunk of the unintegrated immigrant pop…
In the magazine we look at the recent protests in France. The Spectator's Douglas Murray argues that racism is not the problem but that a significant chunk of the unintegrated immigrant pop…
00:35:35 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
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