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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2370
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Americano: Will Trump use Truth Social to relaunch his presidential ambitions?
Freddy Gray talks to the CEO of Truth Social, Devin Nunes, about the new network as it launches in the UK, and whether the owner Donald Trump will be seeking to launch himself back into the political…
00:44:13 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
Women With Balls: Victoria Atkins on Boris's downfall
Until July 6, Victoria Atkins was the Minister of State for Refugees and Minister of State for Prisons and Probation. But as dozens of her colleagues quit in the wake of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid's…
00:25:09 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
The Edition: Trump's Presidency
In this week’s episode:
Will Donald Trump have a second shot at the US presidency?
Freddy Gray and Sarah Baxter discuss. (1.10)
Also this week:
A look at the history of Scotland’s paradoxical relationshi…
00:41:38 |
Thu 21 Jul 2022
Spectator Hustings: Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss
One of Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be Britain's next prime minister. What are the contenders' answers to the big questions facing Britain? Isabel Hardman spoke to Mordaunt (00:36), …
01:02:51 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
Table Talk: With Thom Elliott
Thom Elliott is the co-founder of Pizza Pilgrims. On the podcast, Thom tells Lara and Liv about growing up above a pub, learning to make pizza while touring Italy with his brother, and starting Pizza…
00:33:18 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
Americano: Did René Girard understand America?
Freddy Gray speaks to Geoff Shullenberger, a lecturer at New York University and columnist for Compact Magazine about a range of topics, from the ideas and appeal of philosopher René Girard to transh…
00:39:47 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Leo McKinstry and Melanie McDonagh
On this week's episode: Mary Wakefield on why we should resist Stonewall’s gospel (0:31). Leo McKinstry on the worrying rise of apostrophe laws (07:02) and Melanie McDonagh on the lost art of letterh…
00:17:10 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Holy Smoke: Why the Pope's 'Synod on Synodality' has become a joke
The Catholic Church is half way through a two-year consultation exercise that will culminate in a 'Synod on Synodality' in the Vatican next year.
A synod on what? Don't worry if you're confused. No on…
00:24:51 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Blue Murder
In this week’s episode:
The knives are out in the Tory leadership fight, who looks likely to make the final two?
Fraser Nelson writes this week’s cover piece about the Tory leadership race. He’s joined…
00:46:53 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
The Book Club: Partition Voices
Sam's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Kavita Puri, whose book Partition Voices excavates the often traumatic memories of the last generation to remember first-hand the mass migration and bl…
00:39:01 |
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Investing today: how tech can change the face of finance
Staying on top of your personal finances has never been easier. Anyone can now buy and sell stocks at the tap of a phone screen, with even more progress in fintech just around the corner. What does t…
00:58:50 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
Chinese Whispers: the next technological arms race
Semiconductors are the most important thing that you've never heard of. These little computer chips provide the processing power for everything from cars and iPhones, to unmanned drones and missiles.…
00:43:50 |
Mon 11 Jul 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Kate Andrews, Sean Thomas and Toby Young
On this week's episode: Kate Andrews on why Rishi quit (0:26). Sean Thomas on Russian émigrés who hate the war but will fight for Russia (08:32) and Toby Young on his appreciation for the other Toby …
00:16:21 |
Fri 08 Jul 2022
Americano: What can Biden get from his Saudi Arabia trip?
Freddy Gray speaks to the journalist and The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood about Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia and what he will discuss with the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
H…
00:22:05 |
Fri 08 Jul 2022
The Edition: After Boris
In this week’s episode:
After Boris, who's next?
On the day the Prime Minister resigns, Katy Balls and James Forsyth discuss the aftermath of Boris Johnson’s premiership. Who might be the next Tory lea…
00:29:44 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
The Book Club: Lindsay Fitzharris
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Lindsey Fitzharris – whose new book is The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. At its centre is the compelling…
00:40:50 |
Wed 06 Jul 2022
Table Talk: Lily Dunn
Lily Dunn is a writer, teacher and lecturer in creative writing and narrative non-fiction at Bath Spa University. Her latest book Sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling is out now.…
00:18:41 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
Spectator briefings: A greener future for the north
Will the government's plans for revitalising the north be hampered by its plans for decarbonisation? There's increasing concern in Whitehall that these agendas contradict each other, but there's no r…
01:04:06 |
Mon 04 Jul 2022
Americano: Will progressive conservatism rule America?
Freddy Gray speaks to the author F.H. Buckley, who outlines the case made in his latest book Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party.
Hosted on Acast…
00:30:39 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Katja Hoyer and Lara Prendergast
On this week's episode: Douglas Murray on Hispanic Conservatives in US politics (0:26). Katja Hoyer on East German sentiment towards Russia (08:32) and Lara Predergast on the rise of the sex bore (13…
00:20:01 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
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