Podcast Episodes

The Book Club: The Decadence

On this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by debut author Leon Craig to talk about her novel The Decadence – a story of millennial debauchery in a haunted house which uses a knowing patchwork of li…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Quite right!: the 'wickedness' of Labour's gender war

This week: After leaked EHRC guidance threw Labour’s position on biological sex into disarray, Michael and Maddie ask whether Bridget Phillipson is deliberately delaying clarity on the law – and why …

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson, Andreas Roth, Philip Womack, Mary Wakefield & Muriel Zagha

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson reveals his teenage brush with a micropenis; Andreas Roth bemoans the dumbing down of German education; Philip Womack wonders how the hyphen turned…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Quite right!: Is it time to abolish the Treasury? – Q&A

To submit your urgent questions to Michael and Maddie, go to: spectator.co.uk/quiteright

This week on Quite right! Q&A: Is the Treasury still fit for purpose – or has ‘Treasury brain’ taken over White…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Holy Smoke: is the Anglican Communion dead?

In the space of a month, the Church of England acquired its first female Archbishop of Canterbury, a majority of the world’s Anglicans have left the Anglican Communion in protest at the mother Church…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Coffee House Shots: why Britain needs more Yimbys

Chris Curtis and Maxwell Marlow may have different political ideologies, but they agree on one key diagnosis: Britain is broken. Their solution can be found on baseball caps and bucket hats across so…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

The Edition: Labour's toxic budget, Zelensky in trouble & Hitler's genitalia

It’s time to scrap the budget, argues political editor Tim Shipman this week. An annual fiscal event only allows the Chancellor to tinker round the edges, faced with a backdrop of global uncertainty.…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Book Club: Ben Myers on Kinski

Ben Myers joins Sam Leith to discuss his book Jesus Christ Kinski, which he describes as a ‘novel about a film about a performance about Jesus’. Klaus Kinski was one of Germany’s biggest actors of th…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Quite right!: Labour’s migration crackdown & why the Rwanda plan was ‘ahead of its time’

Listeners on the Best of Spectator playlist can enjoy a section of the latest episode of Quite right! but for the full thing please seek out the Quite right! channel. Just search ‘Quite right!’ where…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Reality Check: Rory Sutherland: Britain isn’t working – here’s how to fix it

Advertising legend and Spectator columnist Rory Sutherland joins Michael Simmons to explain why he thinks Britain’s economic problem isn’t income, tax rates or even inequality — it’s property, rent e…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago