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The Book Club: James Comey
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the former FBI director James Comey, who is making his debut as a thriller writer with an engrossing police procedural, Central Park West. Jim tells me ho…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Marshall Matters: Tony Diver
Tony Diver is part of the investigations team at the Telegraph who exposed the Government Counter-Disinformation Unit. The unit operated during the pandemic to suppress speech deemed dangerous. Tony …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Week in 60 Minutes: Harry vs the press & Oxfam attacks terfs
Cindy Yu is joined by Neil Wallis and Freddy Gray to discuss Prince Harry’s lone crusade in the hacking trial against the Mirror. Also on the show, Katy Balls on the Prime Minister’s trip to Washingt…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Michela Wrong, Emily Rhodes and Cindy Yu
This week: Michela Wrong asks whether anywhere is safe for Kagame's critics (00:58), Emily Rhodes charts the rise of fake libraries (07:54), and Cindy Yu reviews a new exhibition at the British Museu…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Americano: what happened to Kim Darroch?
Freddy Gray is joined by Steve Edginton, video comment editor at the Telegraph and host of the Off Script podcast to discuss curious case of Sir Kim Darroch. A former civil servant has accused the go…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Edition: Harry’s crusade
This week:
Prince Harry has taken the stand to give evidence in the Mirror Group phone hacking trial which The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray talks about in his cover piece for the magazine.…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Book Club: Peter Turchin
In this week's Book Club podcast I talk to Peter Turchin about his new book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration. He proposes a scientific theory of history, map…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Chinese Whispers: why China won't invade Taiwan
In much of the conversation surrounding China and Taiwan, the question of invasion seems to be a ‘when’ not an ‘if’. But is an invasion really so inevitable?
No one knows for sure, of course, but th…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Spectator Out Loud: Lionel Shriver, Ian Williams & Matthew Dennison
This week: Lionel Shriver argues that we should rise up in our road rage (00:52), Ian Williams discusses the crackdown on China’s stand-up comics (09:42) and Matthew Dennison explains why we shouldn’…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Women With Balls: Penny Junor
Penny Junor is a journalist, biographer and author of several books. She began writing at the Evening Standard. Soon into her career, Penny was given an opportunity to write a book about Princess Dia…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago