Podcast Episodes

Holy Smoke: Michael Gove on why the Pope's AI intervention shames our politicians

The Spectator's editor Michael Gove ‘was born into a sternly Presbyterian culture’, but – in this week's magazine – is ‘giving thanks to the Pope’ fo…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Book Club: Siri Hustvedt

Sam Leith's guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Siri Hustvedt, talking about her new book, Ghost Stories, a memoir of her long and loving marri…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Quite Right: Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP

Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP & could the Reform-Restore feud hand Burnham Makerfield?

This week: the Peter Murrell scandal and the collapse of the …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Flora Watkins & Nicholas Farrell

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray details his encounter with Labour leadership hopeful Wes Streeting; Flora Watkins explains why the …

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Americano: what Thomas Massie's lost means for the future of the Right

Congressman Thomas Massie, one of the most vocal Republican critics of Donald Trump lost his fight for re-election in Kentucky to a Trump-backed chal…

2 months ago

Coffee House Shots: is Kemi a winner? | with Lee Cain

The Labour leadership contest may be rumbling on in the background, but today Coffee House turns to the Conservatives – and whether Kemi Badenoch can…

2 months ago

The Edition: Why Labour’s fate will be decided in the Strait of Hormuz

For this week’s Edition, Lara Prendergast is joined by The Spectator's John Power, feminist campaigner Julie Bindel and former adviser to Boris Johns…

2 months ago

The Book Club: Alexander the Great's accidental empire

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Edmund Richardson, author of a new biography of Alexander the Great called Alexander: God, King, Man. Ed…

2 months ago

Quite right!: Maurice Glasman's manifesto for 'proper' Labour | Part one

Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and founder of Blue Labour, has spent years warning that Labour has lost touch with the people it was created to represe…

2 months ago

Holy Smoke: Pope Leo one year on – a promising start?

One year on from when Pope Leo became head of the Catholic church and he remains a bit of an enigma. Is he a Conservative or Liberal? What did we lea…

2 months ago