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Spectator Out Loud: Matt Ridley, Martin Newland & Mary Wakefield
This week: Matt Ridley reveals the identity of the Chinese scientists in the lab linked to Covid, Martin Newland makes the moral case for becoming a foster carer, and Mary Wakefield has a plan for he…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Holy Smoke: Inside the world's most vicious liturgy wars
In the ancient Syro-Malabar Church of south India, clergy who try to change the liturgy do so at their peril. At St Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Ernakulam last December, a long-standing dispute over …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
The Edition: home truths
This week:
First up: for the cover piece, The Spectator’s economics editor Kate Andrews has written about Britain’s mortgage timebomb, as the UK faces the sharpest interest rate hike since the 80s. …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Andrew Pontzen: The Universe In A Box
Sam Leith's guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the cosmologist Andrew Pontzen. His The Universe In A Box: A New Cosmic History describes how we have learned to simulate first the weather, and …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Marshall Matters: Exposing the censorship industrial complex
Michael Shellenberger, Twitter Files journalist and founder of Public is in London to discuss the international censorship industrial complex. He explains to Winston how the complex web of government…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Chinese Whispers: how divided is Europe on China?
The word ‘West’ is often used as a shorthand to describe liberal democracies in Europe, and perhaps in Asia too, such that we’ll often talk about ‘the West’s attitude to China’, or the ‘West’s relati…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Paul Wood and Hermione Eyre
This week: James Heale takes us through the runners and riders for the conservative nomination for mayor of London (1:00), Paul Wood discusses how Saudi Arabia is trying to buy the world (06:02), and…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Americano: Will nuclear power heal the climate?
This week, Freddy is joined by a great American filmmaker, Oliver Stone, and a great Argentinian filmmaker, Fernando Sulichin. Their new documentary Nuclear Now proposes nuclear energy as the solutio…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Women With Balls: Isabel Oakeshott
Isabel Oakeshott is a journalist and author of numerous political biographies, formerly the political editor for the Sunday Times. She's known for a number of scoops over the years, including Chris H…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Edition: Get Rishi
This week:
For her cover piece, The Spectator’s political editor Katy Balls writes that Boris Johnson could be attempting to spearhead an insurgency against the prime minister. She joins the podcast…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago