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Coffee House Shots: Britain’s decline – and how to reverse it | with John Bew
In this special edition of Coffee House Shots, our political editor Tim Shipman is joined by historian, biographer and foreign policy adviser to four…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Edition: does Nigel Farage really want to be Prime Minister?
Nigel Farage is a shark – hell bent on devouring Britain's political class, as illustrated with the Spectator's cover story this week, co-authored by…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Book Club: Howard Jacobson
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson, whose new novel Howl emerges from his rage and despai…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Quite right!: what’s the point of Keir Starmer?
This week: the stark question of Keir Starmer’s leadership. After a bruising week in Westminster – from fresh revelations about the Mandelson appoint…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Holy Smoke: who is Sarah Mullally?
One week from the enthronement of Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, her biographer Andrew Atherstone – Professor of Modern Anglican…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Coffee House Shots: is the government right to restrict jury trials?
The government's plan to restrict jury trials passed its first parliamentary hurdle this week. It is one measure, amongst many, in a Bill designed to…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Spectator Out Loud: Damian Thompson, Francis Pike, Ysenda Maxtone-Graham & Lloyd Evans
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Damian Thompson says his addiction to the piano has only got worse with age; Francis Pike ponders if Kim Jong-Un i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Coffee House Shots: Keir Starmer's total lack of curiosity
Today we are delighted to be joined by the Sunday Times’ Gabriel Pogrund, whose book – Get In, which details Starmer’s rise to power – is out now in …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Edition: America's Iran gamble – why the Royals could be Britain's Trump card
As oil prices rise, the Spectator’s cover story this week – written by deputy editor Freddy Gray – wonders if Trump’s gamble has backfired, and Opera…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Book Club: Lionel Shriver
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Lionel Shriver, whose new novel A Better Life offers among other things a savage send-up of liberal piet…
4 months, 3 weeks ago