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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Week in 60 Minutes: End of lockdown and Sturgeon v Salmond
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Professor Robert Dingwall, from Nottingham Trent University; Rory Sutherland, vice chair of Ogilvy and The Spectator's Wiki Man columnist; and a team …
00:32:09 |
Sun 28 Feb 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Matthew Lynn and Craig Brown
On this episode, Katy Balls explains how No. 10 infighting could lose Scotland, and reveals how Boris plans to get his side in order. (01:05) Matthew Lynn is next on the show, and tells the story of …
00:33:09 |
Sat 27 Feb 2021
The Edition: Is Boris about to lose Scotland?
Could No. 10 infighting lose the Union? (00:40) When should the government tell us how to behave? (13:20) Can a relationship work without hugging for a year? (31:30)
With The Spectator’s deputy polit…
00:40:18 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
The Book Club: the truth about the Vikings
Sam Leith's guest on this week’s Book Club is the bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman, whose fascinating new book River Kings spins a global history of the Vikings out of a single carnelian bead found in a g…
00:36:25 |
Wed 24 Feb 2021
Chinese Whispers: Is China 'eating America's lunch'?
After getting off the phone with Xi Jinping, Joe Biden warned his senators that on infrastructure 'and a whole range of other things', China was spending much more than the US, and America risked bei…
00:30:14 |
Mon 22 Feb 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Are vaccine passports the road to freedom?
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Rod Liddle, associate editor at The Spectator; Trevor Phillips, managing director at Webber Phillips; journalist Dan Hitchens; Harry Mount, editor of …
00:56:29 |
Sun 21 Feb 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Cindy Yu, Fraser Nelson and Josiah Gogarty
On this episode, Cindy Yu begins by explaining why China and Russia are ahead in the great game of vaccine diplomacy. (00:45) Fraser Nelson is next, and he tells us why The Spectator went to court. (…
00:21:49 |
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Holy Smoke: Can the United States be transported back to Christendom?
This week's Holy Smoke examines the fragmentation of American Catholicism following the election of pro-choice Catholic Joe Biden. It focuses on the strangest current of thought among the many conser…
00:25:56 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Women With Balls: The Suzanne Moore Edition
Suzanne Moore is a journalist. On the podcast, she tells Katy about interviewing to work for Marxism Today, feeling out of place at The Guardian, and standing to be an independent MP.
Hosted on Aca…
00:44:10 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
The Edition: Power jab
How are China and Russia getting ahead in the great game of vaccine diplomacy? (00:50) Has the US press lost its way? (11:30) Why is Anglo-Saxon history making a comeback? (27:20)
With The Spectator's…
With The Spectator's…
00:44:02 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
The Book Club: A Place For Everything
Sam's guest in this week’s books podcast is the historian Judith Flanders, whose A Place For Everything tells the story of a vital but little considered part of intellectual history: alphabetical ord…
00:42:57 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Table Talk: With Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins is an investigative journalist. He is the founder of Bellingcat, a platform specialising in open source intelligence. Bellingcat is known for its work on the Syrian civil war, the shoot…
00:17:53 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: State of the union and Putin's pipeline
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Professor Sharon Peacock CBE, chair of the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium; Douglas Ross, leader of Scottish Conservatives; Wolfgang Munchau, director…
01:03:18 |
Sun 14 Feb 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Andrew Sullivan, Lara Prendergast and Deborah Ross
In this episode of Spectator Out Loud, Andrew Sullivan reflects on Trump's second impeachment trial (01:05), Lara Prendergast questions whether vaccine passports are really the solution (08:20) and D…
00:25:40 |
Sat 13 Feb 2021
The demise of the Lincoln Project
Freddy Gray talks to Republican political consultant Luke Thompson about the demise of the Lincoln Project, the political action committee set up to oppose Donald Trump's re-election.
Hosted on Ac…
00:24:51 |
Fri 12 Feb 2021
The Edition: what will immunity passports look like?
On this week's episode, we talk vaccine passports (1:10), Nord Stream 2 (14:55) and the appeal of chess (30:50).
With entrepreneur Louis-James Davis, journalist James Ball, analyst Wolfgang Munchau, a…
With entrepreneur Louis-James Davis, journalist James Ball, analyst Wolfgang Munchau, a…
00:40:17 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
The Book Club: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
In this week’s books podcast, Sam is joined by the philosopher Toby Ord to talk about the cheering subject of planetary catastrophe. In his book The Precipice, new in paperback, Toby argues that we’r…
00:44:50 |
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Chinese Whispers: How Hong Kong became what it is today
As the first BNO passport holders begin to make their way to the UK and start the path to a new citizenship, Cindy Yu takes a look back at Hong Kong's history and how that special city-state formed i…
00:40:49 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Warring Scots and decline of the Church
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Stephen Daisley, a journalist and Spectator contributor; The Revd Marcus Walker, Rector of Great St Bartholomew's in London; and a team of Spectator j…
01:01:01 |
Sun 07 Feb 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Emma Thompson, Matt Ridley and Toby Young
On this week's episode, Emma Thompson explains why Church of England cuts could lead to the devastation of the parish network. (00:55) Then, Matt Ridley explains why lockdown could have led to more d…
00:23:46 |
Sat 06 Feb 2021
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