Podcast Episodes

Holy Smoke: how has John Henry Newman inspired Pope Leo XIV?

St John Henry Newman (1801-90) is perhaps the most influential theologian in the history of English Christianity. Yet, as Damian Thompson discusses with Fr Rod Strange – one of the world’s leading au…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Americano: Ann Coulter on why Trump wins & why Reform can win

Freddy Gray is joined by author Ann Coulter in London, to discuss why she backs the rise of Reform UK, how immigration main issue voters care about this election and why she's backing Trump in his se…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Cosmo Landesman, Henry Blofeld, David Honigmann & Rachel Johnson

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery reports from court as the Spectator and Douglas Murray win the defamation cause brought against them by Mohammed Hijab; Cosmo Landesman defends those wh…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

The Edition: Reform’s motherland, Meloni’s Italian renaissance & the adults learning to swim

First: Nigel Farage is winning over women

Does – or did – Nigel Farage have a woman problem? ‘Around me there’s always been a perception of a laddish culture,’ he tells political editor Tim Shipman. I…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Coffee House Shots: what Douglas Murray’s court win means for press freedom

The Spectator and Douglas Murray have comprehensively won a defamation case brought by Mohammed Hegab.

Hegab, a YouTuber who posts under the name Mohammed Hijab, claimed that an article about the Leic…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Book Club: Nicola Barker

Sam Leith's guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Nicola Barker, talking about her new book TonyInterruptor -- about how a man who interrupts a free jazz concert becomes a viral sensation on soci…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Americano: Trump, MAGA and US foreign policy

Trump, MAGA, and US foreign policy

Kate Andrews speaks to Damir Marusic, assignment editor at The Washington Post and co-founder of Wisdom of Crowds. They examine Donald Trump’s surprising foreign pol…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Coffee House Shots: why can't we agree on data?

John O’Neill and Sam McPhail, the Spectator’s research and data team, join economics editor Michael Simmons to re-introduce listeners to the Spectator’s data hub. They take us through the process bet…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Spectator Out Loud: Michael Simmons, Kapil Komireddi, Margaret Mitchell, David Abulafia and Melissa Kite

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Michael Simmons argues that Trump is winning the tariff war with China; Kapil Komireddi reviews Robert Ivermee’s Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French I…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Holy Smoke: Massacres in Syria and the Congo

Massacres in Syria and the Congo: why aren't Western elites, including the Churches, drawing attention to religious persecution?

After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, many people voiced fears t…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago