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. In ...
22 Jun 202337min
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 t...
21 Jun 202353min
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,...
20 Jun 20231h 15min
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 relatio...
19 Jun 202338min
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 ...
17 Jun 202320min
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 solution...
16 Jun 202351min
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 Hu...
16 Jun 202346min
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 al...
15 Jun 202334min
