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Chinese Whispers: What China's planned mega-dam means for Asia
Just before the end of 2024, Chinese state media Xinhua slipped out an announcement – the long discussed mega-dam in Medog County, Tibet, has been gr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Americano: was 'free trade' really working?
Oren Cass, founder and chief economist of think-tank American Compass, sits down with Freddy Gray at the ARC conference in London. They react to the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Hugh Schofield, Igor Toronyi-Lalic & Michael Simmons, Lisa Haseldine, Alice Loxton and Aidan Hartley
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Hugh Schofield asks why there is no campaign to free the novelist Boualem Sansal (1:26); The Spectator’s arts edit…
1 year, 3 months ago
Coffee House Shots: How the Whips' office really works
Simon Hart joins James Heale to talk about his new book Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip. Having stepped down at the 2024 election…
1 year, 3 months ago
Holy Smoke: Holy War and Antichrist, the rise of extremist rhetoric inside the Russian Orthodox Church
The subject of Ukraine shattered the unity of Eastern Orthodoxy long before Russia’s full-scale invasion began. In 2018 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Edition: new world disorder, cholesterol pseudoscience vs scepticism & the magic of Dickens
This week: the world needs a realist reset
Donald Trump’s presidency is the harbinger of many things, writes The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove, o…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Book Club: The World in the Ocean
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist and critic James Bradley whose new book is Deep Water: The World in the Ocean. He tells me …
1 year, 3 months ago
Americano: Rob Henderson on Musk, monogamy & meritocracy
Political commentator, and author of Troubled, Rob Henderson joins Freddy Gray from the ARC conference in London. They discuss the political reaction…
1 year, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago