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Holy Smoke: Why militant atheists don’t understand religion, a conversation with Alister McGrath
In his new book Why We Believe: Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times, Prof Alister McGrath rejects the notion that belief is a relic of the past and ta…
1 year ago
Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Andrew Kenny, Lara Prendergast, Ysenda Maxtone Graham and Nina Power
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: James Heale wonders what Margaret Thatcher would make of today’s Conservatives (1:28); Andrew Kenny analyses South…
1 year ago
Coffee House Shots: Kemi vs Nigel - who would Thatcher have backed?
It is 50 years since Margaret Thatcher was elected Conservative leader, and at this week’s shadow cabinet meeting, Lord Forsyth was invited as a gues…
1 year ago
Americano: does Trump’s foreign policy make any sense? with Prof John Mearsheimer
Professor John Mearsheimer comes back on the Americano show with Freddy Gray to discuss how seriously we should take Trump's foreign policy. They cov…
1 year ago
The Edition: Britain’s bureaucratic bloat, debating surrogacy & is smoking ‘sexy’?
This week: The Spectator launches SPAFF
The civil service does one thing right, writes The Spectator’s data editor Michael Simmons: spaffing money …
1 year ago
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…
1 year 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 phot…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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 restric…
1 year ago