The Edition: womb service
On this week's episode:In her cover piece for The Spectator, journalist Louise Perry questions whether it is moral to separate a newborn child from their surrogate. She is joined by Sarah Jones, head ...
20 Apr 202336min
The Book Club: Luke Jennings
Sam Leith's guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Luke Jennings, the veteran reporter and novelist whose Codename Villanelle trilogy gave rise to the hit TV series Killing Eve. As his new thriller...
19 Apr 202339min
Marshall Matters: Louise Perry
Feminist philosopher, Unherd columnist and author of The Case Against The Sexual Revolution Louise Perry discusses population growth decline, how culture, the state and feminism are failing mothers an...
18 Apr 202348min
Chinese Whispers: Japan's role in the making of modern China
Just before Christmas, it was reported that the billionaire Jack Ma had moved to Tokyo after getting into trouble with the Chinese authorities. If he's still living there, he'd be one of several well ...
17 Apr 202348min
Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Mary Wakefield and Gus Carter
This week: James Heale says the gloves are off as Labour campaigning takes a bitter turn (00:54), Mary Wakefield worries that she’s raising a snowflake (17:47), and Gus Carter tells us about the colou...
15 Apr 202315min
Women With Balls: Baroness Martha Lane Fox
Baroness Martha Lane Fox is a dotcom pioneer having started lastminute.com in 1997. She sits on the board of some of the country's most prominent brands, including Marks & Spencer and Channel 4, and h...
14 Apr 202333min
The Edition: the new elite
On the podcast this week: In his cover piece for The Spectator, Adrian Wooldridge argues that meritocracy is under attack. He says that the traditional societal pyramid – with the upper class at the t...
13 Apr 202340min
Marshall Matters: Charlie Peters
For over forty years, tens of thousands of girls and young women have been abused, raped and some brutally murdered across Britain by grooming gangs. It is a scandal that should shame the nation, yet ...
12 Apr 202349min
