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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Americano: A brief history of anti-populism with Thomas Frank
Freddy Gray interviews Thomas Frank in Spectator USA's second online event. Frank argues that populism isn't frightening, but rather an account of enlightenment and liberation; it is the story of Ame…
01:09:14 |
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Chinese Whispers: are Chinese companies arms of the state?
The days of tightly controlled state economy are gone in China - but are they returning? In recent months, Chinese companies from Huawei to TikTok have caused concern in the West for fear that they d…
00:37:17 |
Mon 20 Jul 2020
Spectator Out Loud: Christopher Snowdon, leading article, Toby Young
Christopher Snowdon on Britain's lost demographic; this week's leading article on the Government's mixed messaging; and Toby Young on why he's in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
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00:20:52 |
Sat 18 Jul 2020
Women in finance: can technology help bridge the gap?
As technology becomes ever more part of our daily lives, banking is no different. You might have already used some ‘fintech’ innovations like Monzo and Klarna. The flexibility of fintech can particul…
00:36:59 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
The Edition: are white working class boys being left behind?
White working class boys consistently perform worse than other demographics in the UK's education system - why? (00:45) What is it like to be 'cancelled'? (14:20) And is it time to return to the offi…
00:37:14 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Robin Hanbury-Tenison's guide to defeating pandemics and more
This week's Book Club podcast is brought to you rather later than we'd planned. In spring this year, the explorer and writer Robin Hanbury-Tenison was due to be talking to me about his new book Tamin…
00:32:48 |
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Coronomics: what are the lessons learnt from the global pandemic?
The Coronomics series has come to an end after starting in mid-April, at a time when Hong Kong, Britain, the US, and Italy were at much more serious points of the pandemic. On this final episode, Kat…
00:46:00 |
Tue 14 Jul 2020
Table Talk: with Skye McAlpine
Skye McAlpine is a Sunday Times columnist and the author of two cookbooks. She joins Lara and Olivia down the line from Venice, where she grew up. On the podcast, she talks about moving to the city a…
00:29:15 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
Spectator Out Loud: Liam Halligan, Lionel Shriver, Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Liam Halligan on the inflationary dangers of the Bank of England's quantitative easing; Lionel Shriver on the vanity of white guilt; and Ysenda Maxtone Graham on the existential danger that choirs ar…
00:19:03 |
Sat 11 Jul 2020
Americano: will Trump’s war on the radical left propel him to victory?
Douglas Murray writes in the Spectator this week that Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore defended all the right bits of American history. He joins the podcast with Freddy this week to talk cancel cultu…
00:24:30 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
The Edition: does the magic money tree really exist?
We've been told for years that the magic money tree doesn't exist - but has the Chancellor just found it? (00:55) Now that Hong Kong has come into closer orbit with Beijing, is Taiwan next? (21:15) A…
00:38:48 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
The Book Club: nuclear disasters, multilingual jokes, and the art of Kintsugi
In this week's Book Club podcast Sam's guest is the Argentine-born novelist Andrés Neuman, who was acclaimed by the late Roberto Bolano as the future of Spanish-language fiction. They talk about boun…
00:48:57 |
Wed 08 Jul 2020
Coronomics: has the virus damaged faith in politics?
In this episode, Mauricio Savarese reports on the latest from Brazil where the battle between the President Jair Bolsonaro and the media heats up. Kate Andrews updates on Britain's Covid situation wi…
00:24:41 |
Tue 07 Jul 2020
Chinese Whispers: what does Beijing want with Hong Kong?
The year-long Hong Kong protests seem to have come to an abrupt end - as China introduces a draconian national security law that punishes criticism of the Chinese government. On the podcast, Cindy Yu…
00:27:48 |
Mon 06 Jul 2020
Spectator Out Loud: James Forsyth, Douglas Murray, and Leaf Arbuthnot
On this week's episode, James Forsyth talks about Boris Johnson's impossible mission - to rewire Whitehall (01:00), Douglas Murray on woke books (09:00), and Leaf Arbuthnot on the underground world o…
00:27:42 |
Sat 04 Jul 2020
Women With Balls: Chloe Smith
Chloe Smith is the Conservative MP for Norwich North and minister at the Cabinet Office. She entered parliament at the age of 27 and rose through the ranks quickly. In 2012, she was interviewed by Je…
00:27:12 |
Fri 03 Jul 2020
The Edition: can Boris Johnson rewire the British state?
The Prime Minister is trying to reform the civil service. He's not the first to try - so will he succeed? (00:50) The stakes for success are high, as his opponent is no longer Jeremy Corbyn, but the …
00:38:48 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
The Book Club: was Ernest Bevin Labour's Churchill?
In this week's books podcast I'm joined by Alan Johnson and Andrew Adonis to talk about the latter's new biography of a neglected great of British political history: Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill.…
00:43:16 |
Wed 01 Jul 2020
Coronomics: how countries suffered from 'the lost months' of Covid
Reporter at Canada's Globe and Mail, Robyn Doolittle, joins the panel this week to discuss what went wrong in Canada. Speaking to a series of infectious-disease experts, health officials and politici…
00:43:23 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Table Talk: Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland is the vice-chairman of the renowned advertising firm, Ogilvy, and the Spectator's 'Wiki Man' columnist. On the podcast, he talks to Lara and Olivia about everything and anything from…
00:44:25 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
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