Podcast Episodes

Introducing 'Farage's fillies'

Another day, another Reform party press conference. Following political editor Tim Shipman’s cover piece on how Reform hopes to win over women, this morning’s event was led by the party’s top female …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Motherland: how Reform is winning over women

Does – or did – Nigel Farage have a woman problem? ‘Around me there’s always been a perception of a laddish culture,’ he tells political editor Tim Shipman, for the cover piece of the Spectator this …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Kemi Badenoch's God Delusion

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has given a wide-ranging interview to the BBC’s Amol Rajan in which she touched upon her Nigerian upbringing, her feeling of identity and she even revealed she calle…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Has the Bank of England forgotten what its job is?

Some excitement on Threadneedle Street today after the Bank of England cut interest rates to 4 per cent. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has just voted five to four – after a revote – for …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

What Douglas Murray’s court win means for press freedom

The Spectator and Douglas Murray have comprehensively won a defamation case brought by Mohammed Hegab.

Hegab, a YouTuber who posts under the name Mohammed Hijab, claimed that an article about the Leic…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

What Britain can learn from France on migration

It’s the big day for Starmer’s one-in, one-out migrant deal with France. The scheme, which was agreed during the state visit last month, comes into effect today – but Yvette Cooper and other figures …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Vance & Farage's budding bromance

Nigel Farage hosted a press conference today as part of Reform's summer crime campaign 'Britain is lawless'. He unveiled the latest Tory defector: Leicestershire's Police & Crime Commissioner Rupert …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Online Safety Act: are Labour or the Tories worse on free speech?

Is the Online Safety Act protecting children – or threatening free speech? Michael Simmons hosts John Power, who writes the Spectator's cover piece this week on how the Act has inadvertently created …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Why can't we agree on data?

John O’Neill and Sam McPhail, the Spectator’s research and data team, join economics editor Michael Simmons to re-introduce listeners to the Spectator’s data hub. They take us through the process bet…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Will the junior doctors regret picking a fight with Wes?

The dispute between the British Medical Association (BMA) – a trade union for doctors – and the government continues, following the five-day strike by junior doctors. Doctors argue that pay is still …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago