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
Vlad the Invader
In this week’s episode: What does Putin really want for Russia?
For this week’s cover story, Niall Ferguson writes about how Putin seems to be trying to recreate the Russia of the Past, while this wee…
00:35:19 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Theatre of war
In this week’s episode: What is the next act in Putin’s theatre of war?
For this week’s cover story, James Forsyth writes about Putin’s dangerous dramatics on the Russian-Ukrainian border and where th…
00:33:50 |
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Boris’s bunker: the PM’s defensive strategy
In this week’s episode: What’s the mood like in Boris’s bunker?
For this week’s cover story, James Forsyth writes about the defensive bunker mentality inside No. 10 and the PM’s strategy of keeping MP…
00:32:49 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Frozen: can China escape its zero-Covid trap?
In this week’s episode: Is China stuck in a zero-Covid trap?
For this week’s cover story, Cindy Yu looks at Xi Jinping’s attempt to grapple with Covid. She joins the podcast, along with Ben Cowling, C…
00:39:41 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
The phoney war
In this week’s episode: Will Putin invade Ukraine?
For this week’s cover story, Owen Matthews argues that if Putin is going to invade Ukraine, he will do so later rather than sooner. He joins the pod…
00:38:30 |
Thu 27 Jan 2022
The collapse: how Red Wall MPs turned on Boris
In this week’s episode: Will the Red Wall crush Boris Johnson?
In this week’s Spectator, our political editor James Forsyth and our deputy political editor Katy Balls report on the plot to oust the P…
00:39:24 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Is it over?
In this week’s episode: Is Boris Johnson done for?
In this week’s Spectator cover story, our political editor James Forsyth and our deputy political editor Katy Balls write about Boris Johnson’s peri…
00:34:19 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Rip it up: the vaccine passport experiment needs to end
In this week’s episode: Is it time to rip up the idea of vaccine passports?
In The Spectator’s cover story this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews writes about her disdain for the idea of vaccin…
00:37:40 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
The Edition Christmas Special
Welcome to the special Christmas episode of The Edition!
In this episode, we look at five major topics that dominated the news this year and the pages of The Spectator.
First up a review of the year …
01:29:20 |
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Deaths of despair: how Britain became Europe’s drugs capital
In this week’s episode: Is there any substance to the government’s new drugs agenda?
In The Spectator this week Fraser Nelson writes the cover story on the government’s new 10 years drugs plan and fin…
00:37:09 |
Thu 09 Dec 2021
Hospital pass: The NHS is on life support
In this week’s episode: Is the current NHS crisis a bug or a feature?
In the Spectator’s cover story this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews writes about the state of the NHS and why even though …
00:40:57 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
The Covid revolts: Europe’s new wave of unrest
In this week’s episode: Just who is protesting new Covid rules in Europe?
In The Spectator this week we have three articles that cover the riots and protests all over Europe about new covid policies.…
00:32:36 |
Thu 25 Nov 2021
Toil and trouble: Europe faces a new form of warfare
In this week’s episode: Are migrants the new munitions?
In our cover story this week, our political editor James Forsyth looks at the growing troubles in Eastern Europe and how this small part of the…
00:37:31 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Court of Chaos: Boris’s style of government isn’t working for him — or his country
In this week’s episode: Who is advising the PM?
In our cover story this week, our editor Fraser Nelson takes a deep dive into No. 10 politics and finds a court of chaos inside. With a large parliamen…
00:43:24 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Superbad: Joe Biden’s plummeting presidency
In this week’s episode: Has the Biden Presidency stalled or crashed?
In our cover story this week, Freddy Gray assesses the state of the Biden presidency. With steadily lowering approval ratings, a di…
00:40:41 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
Cop out: Boris’s battle to save the climate summit
In this week’s episode: Can Cop26 deliver on its grand promises?
In our cover story this week, Fraser Nelson assesses the state of the upcoming Cop26 summit in Glasgow and questions their very effect…
In our cover story this week, Fraser Nelson assesses the state of the upcoming Cop26 summit in Glasgow and questions their very effect…
00:32:10 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Plan Z: the rise of Éric Zemmour
In this week’s episode: Who is Eric Zemmour – can he take on President Macron?
In our cover story this week, Freddy Gray looks at the rise of Eric Zemmour, the TV presenter who looks set to stir up F…
In our cover story this week, Freddy Gray looks at the rise of Eric Zemmour, the TV presenter who looks set to stir up F…
00:33:29 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Baby doomers: why are couples putting the planet ahead of parenthood?
In this week’s episode: Why are a growing number of people putting the planet before parenthood? Madeleine Kearns writes about this phenomenon in this week’s issue and thinks that some of these fears…
00:37:41 |
Thu 14 Oct 2021
Power grab: who’s hoarding all the gas?
In this week’s episode: with the energy crisis picking up pace who are set to be the winners and losers in this cold war for gas? Domestically we are seeing queues for petrol, rising gas prices all i…
00:38:35 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
Running on empty: the government is out of fuel – and ideas
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
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