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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 Moha…
6 months, 3 weeks 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 f…
6 months, 3 weeks 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. …
7 months 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 Spectato…
7 months 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 G…
7 months 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…
7 months ago
Coffee House Shots: the Online Safety Act vs free speech
Is the Online Safety Act protecting children – or threatening free speech? Michael Simmons hosts John Power, who writes the Spectator's cover piece t…
7 months ago
Americano: Lionel Shriver on Trump’s second term
Lionel Shriver on Trump’s vendetta, Mamdani’s ‘stupid’ ideas & sentimental immigration
Deputy US editor Kate Andrews is joined by author and Spectator…
7 months ago
The Edition: Under CTRL, the Epping migrant protests & why is ‘romantasy’ so popular?
First: the new era of censorship
A year ago, John Power notes, the UK was consumed by race riots precipitated by online rumours about the perpetrator …
7 months ago
Book Club: Gary Shteyngart
Sam Leith is joined for this week's Book Club podcast by Gary Shteyngart — whose new novel Vera, or Faith is set in a near-future America whose polit…
7 months ago