Podcast Episodes

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Cosmo Landesman, Henry Blofeld, David Honigmann & Rachel Johnson

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery reports from court as the Spectator and Douglas Murray win the defamation cause brought against them by Mohammed Hijab; Cosmo Landesman defends those wh…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

The Edition: Reform’s motherland, Meloni’s Italian renaissance & the adults learning to swim

First: Nigel Farage is winning over women

Does – or did – Nigel Farage have a woman problem? ‘Around me there’s always been a perception of a laddish culture,’ he tells political editor Tim Shipman. I…

Published on 3 weeks ago

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 Mohammed Hijab, claimed that an article about the Leic…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day 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 free jazz concert becomes a viral sensation on soci…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day 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. They examine Donald Trump’s surprising foreign pol…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days 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 Spectator’s data hub. They take us through the process bet…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days 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 Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French I…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days 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 Assad regime in Syria, many people voiced fears t…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days 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 this week on how the Act has inadvertently created …

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days 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 columnist Lionel Shriver to assess Donald Trump’s…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago