Podcast Episodes

Table Talk: Candice Chung

Candice Chung is a food writer whose work has been featured in many publications, including the Guardian. Her first book, Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You, is out now.

On the podcast, she tells Li…

Published on 5 months ago

Hole Smoke Live: Recovering the Sacred

Last week The Spectator held a live event entitled ‘Recovering the Sacred’ in the glorious surroundings of St Bartholomew the Great, the oldest parish church in the City of London.

The speakers includ…

Published on 5 months ago

Coffee House Shots: Amanda Spielman on the SEND row and Labour’s Ofsted blind spot

As Labour looks to get a grip on public spending, one rebellion gives way to another with the changes to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system threatening to become welfare rou…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Spectator Out Loud: Sophia Falkner, Roger Lewis, Olivia Potts, Aidan Hartley and Toby Young

This week: Sophia Falkner profiles some of the eccentric personalities we stand to lose when Keir Starmer purges the hereditary peers; Roger Lewis’s piece on the slow delight of an OAP coach tour is …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Edition: Keir's peer purge, how to pick an archbishop & is AI ruining sport?

This week: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peers

For this week’s cover, Charles Moore declares that the hereditary principle in Parliament is dead. Even though he lacks ‘a New Model Army’ to en…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Book Club: M. John Harrison

My guest this week is the writer M. John Harrison, who joins me to talk about the rerelease of his 1992 novel The Course of the Heart – a deeply strange and riddling story of grief, friendship, memor…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Coffee House Shots: can Keir defrost the 'entente glaciale'?

Zut alors! The French are in town. Emmanuel Macron is on his state visit this week, spending time today with the King and tomorrow with the Prime Minister. His itinerary includes a state dinner and a…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Americano: Victor Davis Hanson on left-wing rage, Musk’s grudge, & America’s identity crisis

Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, historian, and author of The End of Everything, joins Freddy Gray to discuss Zoran Mamdani’s shock candidacy win, the future of the Democratic Party, and rising class…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Coffee House Shots: Labour’s first year (in review) with Tim Shipman & Quentin Letts

Cast your mind back a year. Labour had just won a storming majority, promising ‘change’ to a stale Tory party that was struggling to govern. But have things got any better?

In the magazine this week, …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly, Gavin Mortimer, Dorian Lynskey, Steve Morris and Lloyd Evans

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly argues that Labour should look to Andy Burnham for inspiration (1:51); Gavin Mortimer asks if Britain is ready for France’s most controversial novel –…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago