The Book Club: Colum McCann
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the award-winning novelist Colum McCann, whose new book takes him out of the territory of fiction and into something slightly different. American Mother is...
28 Feb 202434min
Americano: A Donald Trump debate
In this special episode of Americano, The Spectator's editor Fraser Nelson explores Trump's candidacy with political commentator Deroy Murdock, and The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews. They ...
28 Feb 202427min
Americano: are pollsters underestimating Joe Biden?
Freddy Gray speaks to James Kanagasooriam who is the chief research officer at Focal Data about the state of the polls. They discuss why vaccines have become a polarising topic for this election; why ...
26 Feb 202430min
Ageing well: becoming a world leader in tackling dementia and Alzheimer’s
With cases of neurodegenerative conditions rising in the UK, it's crucial to re-examine how we tackle these diseases. The Spectator's assistant editor Isabel Hardman speaks to Debbie Abrahams MP (co-c...
26 Feb 202445min
Holy Smoke: How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik?
At a press conference in Rome last week, an ex-nun claiming to have suffered ritual sex abuse at the hands of Fr Marko Rupnik turned the heat on Pope Francis. How much did he know about the stomach-tu...
26 Feb 202416min
Action Men: why women don’t need ‘allies’ fighting male violence – Julie Bindel & Jackson Katz
Julie Bindel speaks to anti-sexist campaigner and author Jackson Katz, who has been part of a growing movement of men working to promote gender equality. On the podcast, Julie and Jackson discuss the ...
24 Feb 202438min
Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Lisa Haseldine, Christopher Howse, Philip Hensher and Calvin Po
This week: Max Jeffery writes from Blackpool where he says you can see the welfare crisis at its worst (01:29); Lisa Haseldine reads her interview with the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, whose husband i...
24 Feb 202443min
Americano: human rights vs democracy
Freddy speaks to journalist and author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Chris Caldwell, about the human rights movement. Can America’s influence be considered imperial? Is how we ...
23 Feb 202420min
