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Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Michael Simmons and Mary Wakefield
This week: James Heale reads his politics column on Sunak's migration minefield (00:55), Michael Simmons says that Scotland's 'progressive' teaching …
2 years, 7 months ago
Women With Balls: Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith was born in Malvern, where she joined the Labour party aged 16. After graduating from Oxford, Jacqui moved to London and worked briefly …
2 years, 7 months ago
The Edition: does Keir Starmer stack up?
In her cover piece for the magazine this week, The Spectator’s political editor Katy Balls writes that whilst Keir Starmer’s accession seems certain,…
2 years, 7 months ago
The 26 million: how to care for people living with long-term health conditions
How should we think of the 26 million people in the UK living with a long-term health condition? Under the current system, only a handful of long-ter…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Book Club: Andrew Lycett
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Arthur Conan Doyle's biographer (and historical consultant to the new BBC TV programme Killing Sherlock)…
2 years, 7 months ago
Table Talk: Tara Wigley
Tara Wigley is the in-house writer for the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, she also has a weekly column in the Guardian and a monthly column in the New York…
2 years, 7 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Lionel Shriver and Marcus Walker
This week: Katy Balls on what the Elgin Marbles row is really about (00:56); Lionel Shriver on feckless politicians when it comes to immigration (06:…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Edition: carbon capture
On the podcast:
In her cover piece for the magazine, The Spectator's assistant editor Cindy Yu – writing ahead of the COP28 summit this weekend – de…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Book Club: Good Scammer
On this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is Guy Kennaway, whose new novel Good Scammer sprinkles a protective dusting of fiction over the true stor…
2 years, 7 months ago
Chinese Whispers: Is Mandarin bad for China?
Across the span of China, a country as big as Europe, there are countless regional dialects and accents – perhaps even languages. Often, they're mutu…
2 years, 7 months ago