The Edition
The Spectator's flagship podcast featuring discussions and debates on the best features from the week's edition. Presented by Lara Prendergast and William Moore.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 359
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
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
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
Cold War
In this week’s episode:
Can Russia turn off Germany’s gas?
Wolfgang Münchau and Katja Hoyer discuss Germany’s looming energy crisis (0.51).
Also this week:
What are relations like between Boris Johnson a…
00:41:14 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Putin's billions
In this week’s episode:
Are Russian sanctions backfiring?
The Spectator’s economics editor, Kate Andrews and Elisabeth Braw from American Enterprise Institute discuss why sanctions against Russia may b…
00:35:07 |
Thu 23 Jun 2022
The death of political authority
In this week’s episode:
Why is there a lack of faith in western leaders? Spectator deputy editor Freddy Gray, Callum Williams from the Economist & Harvard professor Barbara Kellerman discuss why the w…
00:37:28 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
How the rebels plan to finish off Boris
In this week’s episode:
Is the Prime Minister a dead man walking? Spectator Political Editor James Forsyth and MP Jesse Norman who expressed no confidence in Monday's vote discuss the future of Boris …
00:45:20 |
Thu 09 Jun 2022
The quiet radicalism of Elizabeth II
In this week’s episode:
Robert Hardman & Angela Levin, two of the UK’s royal specialists, explore the character of the Queen and the impact she has had on the institution of the monarchy. (00:36)
Also …
00:33:39 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
Inside Taiwan’s plan to thwart Beijing
In this week’s episode:
Ian Williams, author of The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold war, and Alessio Patalano, Professor of War and Strategy in East Asia at King’s College London, talk about how …
Ian Williams, author of The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold war, and Alessio Patalano, Professor of War and Strategy in East Asia at King’s College London, talk about how …
00:36:49 |
Thu 26 May 2022
Zelensky's choice
This week Lara Prendergast and William Moore talk to James Forsyth and the academic, Dr Alexander Clarkson about Zelensky's possible path to peace (00:42). Followed by Owen Matthews, The Spectator's …
00:30:37 |
Thu 19 May 2022
Can Keir escape?
This week Lara Prendergast and William Moore talk to Katy Balls and the journalist Paul Mason about the future of Labour (00:40). Followed by historian David Abulafia and the Sunday Times education e…
00:43:12 |
Thu 12 May 2022
Boris’s plans for a new Brexit clash
In this week’s episode: Is Boris Johnson planning to tear up Britain’s deal with the EU?
James Forsyth says in his Spectator cover story this week that Boris Johnson plans to reignite the Brexit voter…
00:39:56 |
Thu 05 May 2022
Can Elon Musk take on the tech censors?
In this week’s episode: Is Elon Musk heading for a clash with the British Government over free speech?
Elon Musk is buying Twitter. But might the Tesla CEO be in for a battle he wasn’t expecting with …
00:24:47 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
How much longer can Boris Johnson keep going?
In this week’s episode: Is Boris going to limp on?
In her cover piece this week, Katy Balls writes that although Boris Johnson believes he can survive the partygate scandal, he has some way to go unt…
00:41:19 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Cross to bear
In this week’s episode: How are the people of both Russia and Ukraine processing the war?
Our Russia correspondent Owen Matthews writes in this week’s Spectator that he has been stunned at how easily …
00:39:52 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
The politics of war crimes
In this week’s episode: Is Putin guilty of war crimes?
For this week’s cover piece, The Spectator’s Editor Fraser Nelson looks at the risks and rewards of labelling Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers…
00:41:47 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
Biden’s war
In this week’s episode: Is Biden’s approach to the war in Ukraine more calculating than it seems?
For this week’s cover piece, in this week’s cover piece, Matt Purple examines Biden’s response to the …
00:36:17 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Turkey's dilemma
In this week’s episode: could President Erdogan broker a peace deal between Putin and the West?
For this week’s cover piece, Owen Matthews has written about how Turkey’s President Erdogan became a k…
00:38:56 |
Thu 24 Mar 2022
The Western Front
In this week’s episode: Has Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the West’s weakness - or its strength?
For this week, Sergey Radchenko, a Cold War historian writes about the draconian anti-war measure…
00:44:32 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Border farce
In this week’s episode: is the UK dragging its feet when it comes to Ukrainian refugees?
For this week’s cover piece, Kate Andrews and Max Jeffery report from Calais, where they have been talking with…
For this week’s cover piece, Kate Andrews and Max Jeffery report from Calais, where they have been talking with…
00:42:11 |
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Putin’s rage
In this week’s episode: What’s the mood on the ground in Ukraine and Russia?
For this week’s cover piece, Owen Matthews asks whether the invasion of Ukraine will mean the end of Putin’s regime. And in…
00:38:23 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
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