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The Edition: Rishi Sunak’s election gamble
It’s a bumper edition of The Edition this week. After Rishi Suank called a surprise – and perhaps misguided – snap election just a couple of hours after our press deadline, we had to frantically come…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
The Book Club: Conn Iggulden
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Conn Iggulden, probably the best selling author of historical fiction of our day. This week Conn publishes Nero, the first in a new trilogy about the noto…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Table Talk: Tim Hayward
Tom Hayward is an award-winning food writer, a broadcaster, and proprietor of the bakery Fitzbillies in Cambridge. He writes regularly for the FT Magazine and often appears on BBC Radio 4. Following …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Americano: is Biden losing the swing states?
Matt McDonald, managing editor of the US edition of The Spectator, joins Freddy Gray to discuss whether Biden is losing the swing states, the potential outcome of the Trump-Biden TV debates, and who …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, David Shipley, Patrick Kidd, Cindy Yu, and Hugh Thomson
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery interviews Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Massoud (1:13); former prisoner David Shipley ponders the power of restorative justice (8:23); Patrick Kidd ar…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Women With Balls: the Shabana Mahmood Edition
Shabana Mahmood is the shadow secretary of state for justice. She was born in Birmingham to migrant parents. After studying Law at Lincoln College, Oxford, where Rishi Sunak was a contemporary, she q…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
The Edition: who will Trump pick for his running mate?
This week:
Veep show: who will Trump pick for his running mate? Freddy Gray goes through the contenders – and what they say about America (and its most likely next president). ‘Another thought might…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Americano: Who could be Trump's VP?
Freddy Gray talks to American columnist and commentator Guy Benson about who is in the running to be Trump's VP. Who does Trump want? But more importantly what does the Trump ticket need?
Also: Bid…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
The Book Club: Olivia Laing
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Olivia Laing to talk about her new book The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise. Olivia explores …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Chinese Whispers: China's vendetta against Nato
Last week, President Xi Jinping visited Serbia. An unexpected destination, you might think, but in fact the links between Beijing and Belgrade go back decades. One event, in particular, has linked th…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago