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The Book Club: Thom Gunn's Cool Queer Life
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Michael Nott, author of the new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life. He tells me about the poet's ear…
2 years, 2 months ago
Chinese Whispers: How China's electric cars dominated the world
The EU and US are turning up the pressure on Chinese made electric cars, as Cindy Yu discussed with her guest Finbarr Bermingham on the last episode.…
2 years, 2 months ago
Americano: Elbridge Colby on why America must pivot from Ukraine to Taiwan
The war in Ukraine is only bogging America down, says Elbridge Colby, a former national security adviser to the Trump administration. On this episode…
2 years, 3 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Angus Colwell, Matthew Parris, Flora Watkins and Rory Sutherland
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: after President Biden’s debate disaster, Freddy Gray profiles the one woman who could persuade him to step down, h…
2 years, 3 months ago
Women With Balls: Sophie Winkleman
Actress Sophie Winkleman was born in London, educated at Cambridge, and has appeared in television and film roles across both sides of the Atlantic. …
2 years, 3 months ago
The Edition: the reckoning
This week: the reckoning. Our cover piece brings together the political turmoil facing the West this week: Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, and Joe Bide…
2 years, 3 months ago
Book Club: Kathleen Jamie
In her new book Cairn, the Scots poet Kathleen Jamie sets a capstone of sorts on her trilogy of short prose collections Findings, Surfacing and Sight…
2 years, 3 months ago
Table Talk: Sir David Hempleman-Adams
Where to begin with Sir David! An English industrialist and explorer, he was the first person to complete the ‘Explorer’s Grand Slam’. This means he …
2 years, 3 months ago
Holy Smoke: Walsingham and the musical grief of the Reformation
Damian Thompson: The other day I received a press release about an intriguing album of keyboard music by 16th- and early 17th-century composers, thre…
2 years, 3 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Gavin Mortimer, Sean Thomas, Robert Colvile and Melissa Kite
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls reflects on the UK general election campaign and wonders how bad things could get for the Tories (1:02)…
2 years, 3 months ago