Podcast Episodes

Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas, John Power, Susie Mesure, Olivia Potts and Rory Sutherland

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas reflects on the era of lads mags (1:07); John Power reveals those unfairly gaming the social housing system (6:15); Susie Moss reviews Ripeness by Sarah…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Edition: Porn Britannia, Xi’s absence & no more lonely hearts?

OnlyFans is giving the Treasury what it wants – but should we be concerned?

‘OnlyFans,’ writes Louise Perry, ‘is the most profitable content subscription service in the world.’ Yet ‘the vast majority …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Book Club: Lucy Mangan

In this week’s Book Club podcast I am joined by Lucy Mangan, author of Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives. She tells me what teenagers did before they had Young Adult books to read, the bizarre de…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Holy Smoke: a Jewish guide to arguing

Daniel Taub, former Israeli Ambassador to the UK, joins Damian Thompson to talk about his new book Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish art of constructive disagreement. In a fast-moving intervie…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Americano: left-wing violence is being normalised

In the new edition of Spectator World, author and anthropologist Max Horder argues that the US is experiencing a change in its psyche, and left-wing violence is being normalised. He joins Freddy Gray…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Holy Smoke: finding spiritual treasure in César Franck

The Belgian composer César Franck – unfairly associated with kitsch and sentimentality by certain cultural sophisticates – wrote some of the most spiritually inspiring music of the late 19th century.…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Rupert Lowe on Reform turmoil, Chagos ‘treason’ and taking the Tory whip

The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove and assistant editor Madeline Grant interview Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth and notorious Westminster provocateur. Earlier this year, Lowe was suspended from …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Americano: did the swamp drain Elon Musk?

Billionaire Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump have had a very public falling out. Musk, whose time running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) came to an end last month, publicly cri…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Tanya Gold, Madeline Grant, Matthew Parris and Calvin Po

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery tracks down the Cambridge bike bandit (1:10); Tanya Gold says that selling bathwater is an easy way to exploit a sad male fetish (5:38); Madeline Grant …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Edition: Nigel wants YOU, secularism vs spirituality & how novel is experimental fiction?

How Reform plans to win

Just a year ago, Nigel Farage ended his self-imposed exile from politics and returned to lead Reform. Since then, Reform have won more MPs than the Green Party, two new mayoral…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago