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 ...
27 Jul 202336min
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 rise...
26 Jul 202355min
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 dynast...
24 Jul 202336min
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 Rob...
22 Jul 202327min
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, as...
20 Jul 202338min
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 Th...
19 Jul 202340min
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 J...
18 Jul 20231h 7min
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 ...
18 Jul 202330min
