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The Edition: war and peace, why restaurants are going halal & the great brown furniture transfer
This week: war and peace
Despite initial concerns, the ‘Complete and Total CEASEFIRE’ – according to Donald Trump – appears to be holding. Tom Gross w…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Book Club: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is science writer Carl Zimmer, whose new book Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe explores…
1 year, 3 months ago
Coffee House Shots: 'what the f***' is going on in Iran?
It is rare to see the President so visibly frustrated (see The Apprentice, circa 2004), but after Iran and Israel seemingly ignored his ceasefire ann…
1 year, 3 months ago
Holy Smoke: why are young Christians returning to tradition?
Today’s Holy Smoke is a curtain-raiser for ‘Recovering the Sacred’, a Spectator event at St Bartholow-the-Great in the City of London in which a pane…
1 year, 4 months ago
Coffee House Shots: Jeremy Hunt on Trump, Budgets and Welsh whisky
On this week’s special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots, James Heale sits down with Jeremy Hunt to discuss his new book, Can We Be Great Again?…
1 year, 4 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews, Bijan Omrani, Andrew Hankinson, Laurie Penny & Andrew Watts
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews says that Venice’s residents never stop complaining (1:11); Bijan Omrani reads his church notebook (…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Edition: Starmer at sea, Iran on the brink & the importance of shame
Starmer’s war zone: the Prime Minister’s perilous position
This week, our new political editor Tim Shipman takes the helm and, in his cover piece, exa…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Book Club: William Dalrymple
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian William Dalrymple, whose bestselling account of ancient India’s cultural and economic infl…
1 year, 4 months ago
Table Talk: Nadine Dorries
Nadine Dorries is one of the most recognisable Conservative politicians from the past two decades. Elected as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, sh…
1 year, 4 months ago
Americano: will Trump get dragged into the Israel-Iran conflict?
Relations between Iran and Israel are deteriorating rapidly, with comparisons being drawn to Israel’s 1981 strike on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. I…
1 year, 4 months ago