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The Book Club: Colum McCann
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the award-winning novelist Colum McCann, whose new book takes him out of the territory of fiction and into something slightly different. American Mother i…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Americano: A Donald Trump debate
In this special episode of Americano, The Spectator's editor Fraser Nelson explores Trump's candidacy with political commentator Deroy Murdock, and The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews.
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Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Americano: are pollsters underestimating Joe Biden?
Freddy Gray speaks to James Kanagasooriam who is the chief research officer at Focal Data about the state of the polls. They discuss why vaccines have become a polarising topic for this election; why…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Ageing well: becoming a world leader in tackling dementia and Alzheimer’s
With cases of neurodegenerative conditions rising in the UK, it's crucial to re-examine how we tackle these diseases. The Spectator's assistant editor Isabel Hardman speaks to Debbie Abrahams MP (co-…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Holy Smoke: How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik?
At a press conference in Rome last week, an ex-nun claiming to have suffered ritual sex abuse at the hands of Fr Marko Rupnik turned the heat on Pope Francis. How much did he know about the stomach-t…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Action Men: why women don’t need ‘allies’ fighting male violence – Julie Bindel & Jackson Katz
Julie Bindel speaks to anti-sexist campaigner and author Jackson Katz, who has been part of a growing movement of men working to promote gender equality. On the podcast, Julie and Jackson discuss the…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Lisa Haseldine, Christopher Howse, Philip Hensher and Calvin Po
This week: Max Jeffery writes from Blackpool where he says you can see the welfare crisis at its worst (01:29); Lisa Haseldine reads her interview with the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, whose husband …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Americano: human rights vs democracy
Freddy speaks to journalist and author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Chris Caldwell, about the human rights movement. Can America’s influence be considered imperial? Is how we…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
The Edition: why Britain stopped working
Welcome to a slightly new format for the Edition podcast! Each week we will be talking about the magazine – as per usual – but trying to give a little more insight into the process behind putting The…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
The Book Club: Tom Chatfield
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Tom Chatfield, whose new book is Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are. He tells me what we get wrong about technology, what Douglas Adams …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago