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Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove, Mary Wakefield, Mitchell Reiss, Max Jeffery and Nicholas Farrell
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove offers up some advice to Keir Starmer (1:33); Mary Wakefield examines the rise of the ‘divorce party’ (7:28); Mitchell Reiss looks at the promise and p…
Published on 11 months ago
Coffee House Shots: Reeves's worst week so far?
It's been a tricky week for Rachel Reeves: an onslaught of criticism for the levels of borrowing costs, GDP at 0.1 per cent, and stagflation still gripping the UK economy. Remarkably she has come out…
Published on 11 months ago
Holy Smoke: did Muslim leaders help conceal the grooming gangs scandal? A fierce exchange of views
Welcome to one of the most heated exchanges of views in the history of the Holy Smoke podcast. In this episode, Damian Thompson talks to the distinguished Islamic scholar Dr Musharraf Hussain about t…
Published on 11 months ago
The Edition: Empire of Trump, the creep of child-free influencers & is fact-checking a fiction?
This week: President Trump’s plan to Make America Greater
In the cover piece for the magazine, our deputy editor and host of the Americano podcast, Freddy Gray, delves into Trump’s plans. He speaks…
Published on 11 months ago
Americano: have the wildfires exposed America's class divide?
** Americano is nominated in the Political Podcast Awards 2025. Vote for it to win the People's Choice category here **
The LA wildfires have been mostly extinguished, but there is growing concern t…
Published on 11 months ago
The Book Club: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Orlando Reade, whose book What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost describes the life and afterlife of one of the greatest poems in the…
Published on 11 months ago
Table Talk: Julian Baggini, on the 'philosophy of food'
Julian is a philosopher, journalist and author. He has served as the academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and is a member of the Food Ethics Council. His new book, How the World Eat…
Published on 11 months ago
Chinese Whispers: Eva Dou on 'The House of Huawei'
** Chinese Whispers is nominated in the Political Podcast Awards 2025. Vote for it to win the People's Choice category here **
Among the casualties of Donald Trump’s trade war with China in his firs…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Americano: is Ron De Santis right about 'classical education'?
** Americano is nominated in the Political Podcast Awards 2025. Vote for it to win the People's Choice category here **
Freddy Gray is joined by Amy Wax who is a professor at Penn University to disc…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Spectator Out Loud: Catherine Lafferty, Michael Simmons, Paul Wood, Philip Hensher, Isabel Hardman and Damian Thompson
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Catherine Lafferty argues that the drive to reduce teenage pregnancies enabled grooming gangs (1:27); following Luke Littler’s world championship victory, Michael S…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago