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What is driving the fraud explosion?
Fraud, by some margin, is the biggest crime in Britain. How did it spin out of control? Who is responsible? And who do we call to tackle and prevent the biggest menace in the digital era? The Spectat…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Melissa Kite, Nigel Biggar and Matt Ridley
This week Melissa Kite mourns the Warwickshire countryside of her childhood, ripped up and torn apart for HS2, and describes how people like her parents have been treated by the doomed project (01:15…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Americano: what's going on in the Republican party?
Freddy speaks to Roger Kimball, editor of the New Criterion and columnist for The Spectator's US edition. After Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker of the House this week, they discuss why the Repub…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Women With Balls: Rosie Duffield
Rosie Duffield is the Labour MP for Canterbury and one of the most well-known faces in British politics. She first became an MP in 2017, a historic win which overturned 99 years of Tory rule. Since b…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
The Edition: Battle begins
This week:
Katy Balls writes in her cover piece that after Tory conference the battle lines have now been drawn between the two main parties. She says we should prepare for a 'presidential campaign'…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Marshall Matters: David Goodhart
This week Winston speaks to David Goodhart, author of The British Dream: Successes And Failures Of Post-War Immigration, which celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. On the podcast they discus…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
The Book Club: Caspar Henderson
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Caspar Henderson, whose new book A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous really is a journey into sound. He tells me why the music of the spheres – at l…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Kate Andrews and Lloyd Evans
This week Freddy Gray takes a trip to Planet Biden and imagines what would happen if little green men invaded earth and found a big orange one back in the White House (01:15), Kate Andrews finds hers…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Americano: who is winning America's class war?
This week Freddy is joined in The Spectator offices by regular contributor and fellow of urban studies at Chapman University, Joel Kotkin. They discuss Biden and Trump's respective attempts to burnis…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
The Edition: Judgment call
On the podcast this week:
Lord Sumption makes the case for leaving the ECHR in The Spectator's cover piece. He says that the UK has strong courts and can pass judgement on human rights by itself and…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago