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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2370
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Katy Balls, James Walton
On this week's episode, Douglas Murray examines the left's tactics of victimhood in the wake of the Labour conference. (00:48)
Then James Walton gives us his review of the new Bond film, No Time to D…
Then James Walton gives us his review of the new Bond film, No Time to D…
00:14:55 |
Sat 02 Oct 2021
Americano: Is America spending too much money?
Freddy Gray speaks to The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews about President Biden's Infrastructure Bill and the US debt ceiling.
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00:17:18 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Podcast special: Why fear nuclear energy?
As the UK faces a rising energy crisis with gas supplies in short supply, questions are arising of not just how we mitigate the problem in the short term but how we hedge against it in the long term?…
00:30:03 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Innovator of the Year Awards: Scotland and Northern Ireland
We were very nearly in Edinburgh Castle to meet our Scottish and Northern Ireland finalists: in the Contini restaurant next door to the Castle forecourt at the top of the tourist-filled Royal Mile.
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00:21:30 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
The Edition: Running on empty
In this week’s episode: is Boris Johnson running on empty or is a weak opposition giving him the momentum he needs? Kate Andrews asks in her cover story this week if Boris Johnson’s government has ru…
00:38:40 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Innovator of the Year Awards: London and the South East
This year’s regional finals for The Spectator’s Economic Innovator of the Year Awards kicked off with a fascinating session in a private dining room of the boutique hotel One Aldwych.
We managed to p…
We managed to p…
00:26:28 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
The Book Club: Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk -- best known as the author of Fight Club -- has just announced that he's publishing his next novel not with a mainstream publisher but through the online subscription service Substac…
00:25:20 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Table Talk: With Grizelda
Grizelda is an award-winning cartoonist for publications including The Spectator, the New Statesman and Private Eye. She was Pocket Cartoonist of the Year in 2018. On the podcast, she tells Lara and …
00:23:52 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Aukus alliance and Douglas on Cambridge
Katy Balls is joined by The Spectator's associate editor Douglas Murray; the founder of Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis; former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers; former Australian prime minister Tony Abbot…
01:01:19 |
Sun 26 Sep 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Nicola Christie, Hannah Tomes
On this week's episode, Katy Balls gives us her thoughts on the importance of Keir Starmer’s performance this weekend at the Labour Party Conference. (00:54)
Then Nicola Christie raises the curtain o…
Then Nicola Christie raises the curtain o…
00:19:13 |
Sat 25 Sep 2021
Americano: Is Joe Biden OK?
President Biden has spent the week meeting with foreign leaders including Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Now, the number of people starting to speculate about the state Joe Biden’s health is growing. …
00:09:44 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Women With Balls: The Sarah Rainsford edition
Sarah Rainsford was a BBC foreign correspondent stationed in Moscow for 20 years until August when the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) declared Rainsford a national security threat. They expel…
00:35:37 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
The Edition: Can Britain, America and Australia contain China?
In this week’s episode: can the new Aukus alliance contain China? In his cover piece this week, James Forsyth writes that the new Aukus pact has fixed the contours of the next 30 years of British for…
00:43:02 |
Thu 23 Sep 2021
The Book Club: Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
In this week's Book Club podcast Sam is joined by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, a historian of psychoanalysis whose latest book is Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives. Mikkel has sifted through the archives t…
00:36:47 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Chinese Whispers: Has China got over the Japanese invasion?
For China, WWII started in 1937 with the Japanese invasion, two years before Hitler invaded Poland. Japan would occupy China until its surrender in 1945, in the process committing atrocities like the…
00:39:35 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson, Michela Wrong, Mark Mason
On this week's episode, Fraser Nelson starts by reading the leader. Britain has a labour shortage and our immigration system is a mess - why not have an amnesty for migrants without legal status? (01…
00:25:27 |
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Holy Smoke: Has Pope Francis just thrown Joe Biden under the bus on abortion?
Say what you like about Pope Francis, but he's incapable of giving a boring in-flight interview. On Wednesday, coming back from Hungary and Slovakia, he was asked about the problem of pro-abortion Ca…
00:18:15 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
The Edition: who’s afraid of rising wages?
In this week’s episode: is Brexit to blame for the rise in blue-collar wages? With labour shortages driving wages up, many have blamed Britain’s removal from the single market. However, this week in …
00:44:34 |
Thu 16 Sep 2021
The Book Club: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
This week, Sam is joined by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - whose latest book is The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World. On the podcast he speaks about how 1851 - the year of the Gre…
00:40:33 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Table Talk: with Ed Balls
Ed Balls is an acclaimed broadcaster, writer, economist, professor and former politician who served as shadow chancellor from 2011 to 2015. On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv about the importance …
00:34:27 |
Tue 14 Sep 2021
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