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Spectator Out Loud: Sophia Falkner, Roger Lewis, Olivia Potts, Aidan Hartley and Toby Young
This week: Sophia Falkner profiles some of the eccentric personalities we stand to lose when Keir Starmer purges the hereditary peers; Roger Lewis’s …
1 year, 3 months ago
The Edition: Keir's peer purge, how to pick an archbishop & is AI ruining sport?
This week: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peers
For this week’s cover, Charles Moore declares that the hereditary principle in Parliament is d…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Book Club: M. John Harrison
My guest this week is the writer M. John Harrison, who joins me to talk about the rerelease of his 1992 novel The Course of the Heart – a deeply stra…
1 year, 3 months ago
Coffee House Shots: can Keir defrost the 'entente glaciale'?
Zut alors! The French are in town. Emmanuel Macron is on his state visit this week, spending time today with the King and tomorrow with the Prime Min…
1 year, 3 months ago
Americano: Victor Davis Hanson on left-wing rage, Musk’s grudge, & America’s identity crisis
Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, historian, and author of The End of Everything, joins Freddy Gray to discuss Zoran Mamdani’s shock candidacy win, th…
1 year, 3 months ago
Coffee House Shots: Labour’s first year (in review) with Tim Shipman & Quentin Letts
Cast your mind back a year. Labour had just won a storming majority, promising ‘change’ to a stale Tory party that was struggling to govern. But have…
1 year, 3 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly, Gavin Mortimer, Dorian Lynskey, Steve Morris and Lloyd Evans
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly argues that Labour should look to Andy Burnham for inspiration (1:51); Gavin Mortimer asks if Britai…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Edition: Claws out for Keir, Mamdani’s poisoned apple & are most wedding toasts awful?
This week: one year of Labour – the verdict
In the magazine this week Tim Shipman declares his verdict on Keir Starmer’s Labour government as we appro…
1 year, 3 months ago
Book Club: Karin Slaughter
Sam Leith's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is one of the most popular living thriller writers. Karin Slaughter has made her native Georgia he…
1 year, 3 months ago
Holy Smoke: it’s time for Pope Leo XIV to make some tough decisions
Nearly everyone loves Robert Prevost, the unassuming baseball fan from Chicago who unexpectedly became Pope Leo XIV this year. But as he prepares to …
1 year, 3 months ago