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The Edition: Labour’s growing pains, survival of the hottest & murder most fascinating
This week: why is economic growth eluding Labour?
‘Growing pains’ declares The Spectator’s cover image this week, as our political editor Katy Balls, our new economics editor Michael Simmons, and G…
Published on 9 months ago
The Book Club: Who is Government?
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the novelist and journalist John Lanchester, one of the contributors to Michael Lewis’s very timely new anthology of reportage on the United States federa…
Published on 9 months ago
Women With Balls: Miatta Fahnbulleh
Miatta Fahnbulleh was elected as the Labour MP for Peckham at the 2024 general election.
Born in Liberia, her family fled west Africa as the region descended into civil war, eventually settling in …
Published on 9 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Colin Freeman, Harry Ritchie, Max Jeffery, Michael Gove and Catriona Olding
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Colin Freeman explains how Islamic State tightened its grip on the Congo (1:23); Harry Ritchie draws attention to the thousands of languages facing extinction this …
Published on 9 months ago
Coffee House Shots: is Keir Starmer a Tory?
Slashing the winter fuel allowance, maintaining the two child benefit cap, cutting international aid, cutting the civil service, axing NHS bureaucracy, possibly slashing welfare expenditure... you'd …
Published on 9 months ago
Americano: can Trump survive a recession?
Freddy Gray is joined by Fox News broadcaster Deroy Murdock to discuss Trump's America. They cover what could be the real reason behind Trump's tariffs, how concerned Americans should be about a rece…
Published on 9 months ago
The Edition: massacre of the innocents, saving endangered languages & Gen Z’s ‘Boom Boom’ aesthetic
This week: sectarian persecution returns
Paul Wood, Colin Freeman and Father Benedict Kiely write in the magazine this week about the religious persecution that minorities are facing across the wor…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Holy Smoke: Christianity, culture wars and J.D. Vance, a conversation with James Orr
James Orr was living the life of a young, high-flying lawyer when, after a few drinks at a New Year's Eve party, he asked for signs that God existed. The signs came; among other things, he narrowly a…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
The Book Club: A Publisher's Memoir
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the publisher Anthony Cheetham, one of the biggest figures in British publishing through the second half of the twentieth century and into this one. In hi…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Table Talk: Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar is a journalist, academic and political activist known for her commentary on social justice and democratic socialism. She is a senior editor at Novara Media, and her work has been publishe…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago