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The Edition: Bankrolled
In this week’s cover story, The Spectator’s political editor Katy Balls writes about Labour’s new paymasters – Keir Starmer’s party now receives more money from private donors than it does from trade…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The Book Club: James Ball
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the investigative and tech writer James Ball, to talk about his new book The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World. In it, James traces the ris…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Chinese Whispers: did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?
In the 1800s, Qing China’s final century, European powers were expanding eastwards. The industrialised West, with its gunboats and muskets, and the soft power of Christianity, pushed around the dynas…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Mary Wakefield, Gareth Roberts and Rachel Johnson
This week (01.13) Freddy Gray, on why Ron De Santis is no longer ‘de future’ in the race for the Presidency, (09.50) Mary Wakefield recounts the train journey from hell,
(16.10) we hear from Gareth R…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The Edition: Road rage
This week:
In his cover piece for the magazine Ross Clark writes about ‘the war on motorists'. He argues that the backlash against London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s expansion of Ulez is just the beginning,…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The Book Club: Ferdinand Mount
In this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Ferdinand Mount who in his long career has been literary and political editor of this very magazine, as well as editor of the TLS and head of Margaret T…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Marshall Matters: Yeonmi Park
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector who from fled home country through China where she was saved by Christian missionaries. She is the author of two books, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Americano: What went wrong for Ron DeSantis?
Freddy is joined this week by Roger Kimball, editor of the New Criterion to talk about the diminishing power of Ron DeSantis. It wasn't so long ago he looked like a serious challenger that could beat…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Can Britain’s grid take the strain?
The way we use energy is changing. As electric heat pumps and electric vehicles become more popular, and as the government tries to phase out fossil fuels to reach its net zero target, some estimate …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
The Week in 60: Barbie Britain & Yudkowsky on death by AI
James Heale is joined by Tom Hunt MP and Tim Farron MP to debate the illegal migration bill. Also on the show, will AI kill us all? Eliezer Yudkowsky and James Phillips discuss; Katy Balls and Stephe…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago