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The Book Club: what we get wrong about The Great Gatsby
In this week’s Book Club podcast, we’re contemplating the astounding achievement of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in its 100th year. My gues…
1 year, 4 months ago
Americano: 'I'm a Democrat who will give him a chance' - Lionel Shriver on Trump's inauguration
** Americano is nominated in the Political Podcast Awards 2025. Vote for it to win the People's Choice category here **
Donald Trump has been sworn …
1 year, 4 months ago
Coffee House Shots: Could Trump 2.0 derail the Starmer project?
The parties - and protests - have already kicked off, as Trump's inauguration gets underway in Washington D.C. today. Katy Balls speaks to Michael Go…
1 year, 4 months ago
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’…
1 year, 4 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 gr…
1 year, 4 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 distingu…
1 year, 4 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,…
1 year, 4 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 m…
1 year, 4 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…
1 year, 4 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 Fo…
1 year, 4 months ago