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Reality Check: Britain's stats have become dangerously unreliable
Britain is facing a quiet crisis — its data is breaking down, and the government’s numbers are increasingly unreliable.
In this episode of Reality Che…
11 months ago
Quite right!: Boris, Cameron or May? – Q&A
To submit your urgent questions to Michael and Maddie, go to: spectator.co.uk/quiteright
This week on the first ever Quite right! Q&A: What’s your mos…
11 months ago
Holy Smoke: have the culture wars gone spiritual?
Why are Silicon Valley billionaires obsessing over Heaven & Hell, and what does it tell us about American society today? Spectator World's Arts Edito…
11 months ago
Coffee House Shots: what Trump II can teach Britain
What lessons does America have for our politics? While progressives look to Zohran Mamdani for inspiration on how to get elected successfully, the re…
11 months ago
The Edition: Trump’s gilded age, the ‘hell’ of polyamory & is Polanski Britain’s Mamdani?
A year on from his presidential election victory, what lessons can Britain learn from Trump II? Tim Shipman writes this week’s cover piece from Washi…
11 months ago
Book Club: Graham Robb
Sam Leith's guest this week is Graham Robb. In his new book The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History, Graham takes us on a time-travelling bic…
11 months ago
Quite right!: Rachel Reeves’s Budget ‘bollocks’ & Britain’s everyday crime crisis
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 Quit…
11 months, 1 week ago
Spectator Out Loud: Luke Coppen, Mary Wakefield, Daniel McCarthy, Michael Simmons & Hugh Thomson
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Luke Coppen looks at a new musical subgenre of Roman Catholic black metal; Mary Wakefield celebrates cartoonist Mi…
11 months, 1 week ago
Americano: James Orr on J.D. Vance
Freddy Gray sits down with academic James Orr at the Battle of Ideas in London for a live Americano podcast to discuss Vice President J.D. Vance. Hav…
11 months, 1 week ago
Reality Check: the rich are leaving Britain – and making you poorer
Are the rich fleeing Britain? That's what the numbers suggest, but some activist groups have hit back that the data is dodgy. For the second episode …
11 months, 1 week ago