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Coffee House Shots: Keir Starmer and the lost art of political oratory
From Churchill to Thatcher to Blair to Farage, Parliament has seen some truly fantastic rhetoricians over the years. But last week came the news that – in a bid to improve his own oratorical skill – …
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Book Club: Radiohead's Colin Greenwood
Sam Leith's guest on today’s Book Club podcast is the musician, writer and photographer Colin Greenwood, who joins me to discuss his new book of photographs and memoir How To Disappear: A Portrait of…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Americano: could Trump target Britain with tariffs?
Angus Hanton, author of Vassal State: How America Runs Britain, joins Freddy Gray to talk about the economic relationship between Britain and America. As the world adjusts to the new US administratio…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Table Talk: Groove Armada's Andy Cato
Andy Cato is a musician, record producer and DJ, and is perhaps best known as one half of the Grammy Award-winning electronic music duo Groove Armada.
Andy is also a farmer and now puts his energy i…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Chinese Whispers: Have America's chips controls backfired?
Beginning in the first Trump presidency and expanded under Joe Biden, the US has taken a strategy of technologically containing China through restricting its access to cutting edge semiconductors. As…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Alexander Raubo, Damian Thompson, Daisy Dunn and Mark Mason
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls analyses the threat Reform pose to the Conservatives (1:20); Alexander Raubo talks us through the MAGA social scene and the art collective Remilia (6:42)…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Coffee House Shots: The inside story of Labour under Starmer
This week saw the publication of Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund’s new book Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer. It’s the second in their tell-all series of books on the Labour Party…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Women With Balls: Kay Burley, from the archives
Kay Burley announced her retirement from Sky News this week, after 36 years, having presented more than a million minutes of live television news – more than any other presenter in the world.
To mar…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
The Edition: Labour's Irish insurgent, Germany's 'firewall' falls & finding joy in obituaries
As a man with the instincts of an insurgent, Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has found Labour’s first six months in office a frustrating time, writes The Spectator’s editor Michael G…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Americano: Will Trump make Gaza great again?
When Netanyahu visited the White House, Donald Trump said in a press conference that the US could take over the Gaza Strip and suggested the permanent resettlement of its 1.8 million residents to nei…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago