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
See change, A.I. ghouls & long live the long lunch!
This week: the many crises awaiting the next pope
‘Francis was a charismatic pope loved by most of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics’ writes Damian Thompson in the cover article this week. But few of …
‘Francis was a charismatic pope loved by most of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics’ writes Damian Thompson in the cover article this week. But few of …
00:37:44 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Easter special: assisted dying, ‘bunny ebola’ & how do you eat your creme egg?
This week: should the assisted dying bill be killed off?
Six months after Kim Leadbeater MP launched the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, a group of Labour MPs have pronounced it ‘irredeemabl…
Six months after Kim Leadbeater MP launched the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, a group of Labour MPs have pronounced it ‘irredeemabl…
00:34:08 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Trump shock, cousin marriage & would you steal from a restaurant?
This week: Trump’s tariffs – madness or mastermind?
‘Shock tactics’ is the headline of our cover article this week, as deputy editor Freddy Gray reflects on a week that has seen the US President upend…
‘Shock tactics’ is the headline of our cover article this week, as deputy editor Freddy Gray reflects on a week that has seen the US President upend…
00:38:44 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Cruel Labour, the decline of sacred spaces & Clandon Park’s controversial restoration
This week: Starmerism’s moral vacuum
‘Governments need a mission, or they descend into reactive incoherence’ writes Michael Gove in this week’s cover piece. A Labour government, he argues, ‘cannot sur…
‘Governments need a mission, or they descend into reactive incoherence’ writes Michael Gove in this week’s cover piece. A Labour government, he argues, ‘cannot sur…
00:50:51 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
The age of the strongman, Tesla under attack & matinee revivals
This week: welcome to the age of the strongman
‘The world’s most exclusive club… is growing,’ writes Paul Wood in this week’s Spectator. Membership is restricted to a very select few: presidents-for-l…
‘The world’s most exclusive club… is growing,’ writes Paul Wood in this week’s Spectator. Membership is restricted to a very select few: presidents-for-l…
00:34:37 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Labour’s growing pains, survival of the hottest & murder most fascinating
This week: why is economic growth eluding Labour?
‘Growing pains’ declares The Spectator’s cover image this week, as our political editor Katy Balls, our new economics editor Michael Simmons, and Geor…
‘Growing pains’ declares The Spectator’s cover image this week, as our political editor Katy Balls, our new economics editor Michael Simmons, and Geor…
00:42:56 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Massacre of the innocents, saving endangered languages & Gen Z’s ‘Boom Boom’ aesthetic
This week: sectarian persecution returns
Paul Wood, Colin Freeman and Father Benedict Kiely write in the magazine this week about the religious persecution that minorities are facing across the world …
Paul Wood, Colin Freeman and Father Benedict Kiely write in the magazine this week about the religious persecution that minorities are facing across the world …
00:37:21 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Why Ukraine's minerals matter, the NHS's sterilisation problem & remembering the worst poet in history
This week: the carve-up of Ukraine’s natural resources
From the success of Keir Starmer’s visit to Washington to the squabbling we saw in the Oval Office and the breakdown of security guarantees for U…
From the success of Keir Starmer’s visit to Washington to the squabbling we saw in the Oval Office and the breakdown of security guarantees for U…
00:42:20 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Inside Nigel’s gang, my day as a ‘missing person’ & how to save James Bond
This week: Nigel’s gang – Reform’s plan for power.
Look at any opinion survey or poll, and it’s clear that Reform is hard to dismiss, write Katy Balls and James Heale. Yet surprisingly little is known…
Look at any opinion survey or poll, and it’s clear that Reform is hard to dismiss, write Katy Balls and James Heale. Yet surprisingly little is known…
00:37:39 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
New world disorder, cholesterol pseudoscience vs scepticism & the magic of Dickens
This week: the world needs a realist reset
Donald Trump’s presidency is the harbinger of many things, writes The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove, one of which is a return to a more pitiless world land…
Donald Trump’s presidency is the harbinger of many things, writes The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove, one of which is a return to a more pitiless world land…
00:48:23 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Britain’s bureaucratic bloat, debating surrogacy & is smoking ‘sexy’?
This week: The Spectator launches SPAFF
The civil service does one thing right, writes The Spectator’s data editor Michael Simmons: spaffing money away. The advent of Elon Musk’s DOGE in the US has in…
The civil service does one thing right, writes The Spectator’s data editor Michael Simmons: spaffing money away. The advent of Elon Musk’s DOGE in the US has in…
00:39:14 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Labour's Irish insurgent, Germany's 'firewall' falls & finding joy in obituaries
This week: Morgan McSweeney, the insurgent behind Keir Starmer’s premiership
As a man with the instincts of an insurgent, Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has found Labour’s first six …
As a man with the instincts of an insurgent, Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has found Labour’s first six …
00:47:44 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Migration mystery, Ipso’s trans muddle & are you a ‘trad dad’?
This week: why don’t we know how many people are in Britain?
How many people live in the UK? It’s a straightforward question, yet the answer eludes some of the nation’s brightest statistical minds, wr…
How many people live in the UK? It’s a straightforward question, yet the answer eludes some of the nation’s brightest statistical minds, wr…
00:45:38 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
Industry tragedy, Trump vs the Pope & the depressing reality of sex parties
This week: the death of British industry
In the cover piece for the magazine, Matthew Lynn argues that Britain is in danger of entering a ‘zero-industrial society’. The country that gave the world the…
In the cover piece for the magazine, Matthew Lynn argues that Britain is in danger of entering a ‘zero-industrial society’. The country that gave the world the…
00:42:01 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Empire of Trump, the creep of child-free influencers & is fact-checking a fiction?
This week: President Trump’s plan to Make America Greater
In the cover piece for the magazine, our deputy editor and host of the Americano podcast, Freddy Gray, delves into Trump’s plans. He speaks to…
In the cover piece for the magazine, our deputy editor and host of the Americano podcast, Freddy Gray, delves into Trump’s plans. He speaks to…
00:42:19 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
The truth about grooming gangs, 'why I'm voting for the AfD' & exploring YouTube rabbit holes
This week: what does justice look like for the victims of the grooming gangs?
In the cover piece for the magazine, Douglas Murray writes about the conspiracy of silence on the grooming gangs and offer…
In the cover piece for the magazine, Douglas Murray writes about the conspiracy of silence on the grooming gangs and offer…
00:47:00 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
The West's right turn, Michael Gove interviews Jordan Peterson & the ADHD trap
This week: the fight for the future of the right
From Milei in Argentina to Trump in the US, Meloni in Italy to the rise of the AfD in Germany, the world appears to be turning to the right, say James …
From Milei in Argentina to Trump in the US, Meloni in Italy to the rise of the AfD in Germany, the world appears to be turning to the right, say James …
00:46:11 |
Thu 02 Jan 2025
Best of 2024 with Dominic Sandbrook, Mary Beard and Harriet Harman
This week is a special episode of the podcast where we are looking back on some of our favourite pieces from the magazine over the past year and revisiting some of the conversations we had around the…
01:14:55 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
Christmas Special 2024 with Rod Liddle, Lionel Shriver, Matthew Parris and Mary Wakefield
Welcome to a special festive episode of The Edition podcast, where we will be taking you through the pages of The Spectator’s Christmas triple issue.
Up first: our review of the year – and what a year…
Up first: our review of the year – and what a year…
01:10:36 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
How twee triumphed, Graham Brady on Tory turmoil & celebrating pigs in blankets
This week: are we drowning in a sea of twee?
Gareth Roberts writes the cover article this week, arguing against what he sees as the hideous triviality of our times. ‘The British have lost their aversi…
Gareth Roberts writes the cover article this week, arguing against what he sees as the hideous triviality of our times. ‘The British have lost their aversi…
00:37:08 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
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