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The Book Club: William Dalrymple
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian William Dalrymple, whose bestselling account of ancient India’s cultural and economic infl…
8 months, 1 week ago
Table Talk: Nadine Dorries
Nadine Dorries is one of the most recognisable Conservative politicians from the past two decades. Elected as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, sh…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Americano: will Trump get dragged into the Israel-Iran conflict?
Relations between Iran and Israel are deteriorating rapidly, with comparisons being drawn to Israel’s 1981 strike on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. I…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Book Club, from the archives: Frederick Forsyth
In honour of the author Frederick Forsyth, who died early this week, please enjoy this episode of the Book Club podcast, from the archives, in which …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Coffee House Shots: why is Britain's economy so unhealthy?
The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons is joined by the outgoing boss of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson and the CEO of the R…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
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 s…
8 months, 2 weeks 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 subscript…
8 months, 2 weeks 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 …
8 months, 2 weeks 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 co…
8 months, 3 weeks 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 …
8 months, 3 weeks ago