The Edition: how will it end?
On the podcast this week:How will the war on Ukraine end?This is the question that Russia correspondent Owen Matthews asks in his cover piece for The Spectator. He is joined by Rose Gottemoeller, form...
2 Feb 202341min
The Book Club: Tania Branigan
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the reporter Tania Branigan, whose experience as a correspondent in China led her to believe that the trauma of the Cultural Revolution was the story behin...
1 Feb 202356min
Can the UK secure its precarious energy supply?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the insecurity of the UK’s energy supply. We may not have been reliant on Russian gas like our European neighbours, but that didn’t mean we avoided higher energy b...
30 Jan 202332min
The Week in 60 Minutes: Tory sleaze & Biden's docudrama
Katy Balls, The Spectator’s political editor is joined by Isabel Hardman and John Curtice to talk about her cover piece on the latest Tory sleaze scandals. Also on the show, Mike Martin and Richard Ba...
29 Jan 202352min
Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Parris, Lionel Shriver and Gus Carter
On this week’s episode, Matthew Parris wonders what ‘winning’ in Ukraine really means (00:52), Lionel Shriver says she’s fighting her own war against words (08:43), and Gus Carter wonders whether it’s...
28 Jan 202324min
Americano: Will America smash its debt ceiling?
Freddy Gray talks to the Bloomberg journalist and podcaster Joseph Weisenthal about the likely rise America’s debt ceiling… once again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
27 Jan 202328min
The Edition: Rolling in it
On this week's podcast, Katy Balls, The Spectator’s political editor, writes about the return of Tory sleaze. She’s joined by Jill Rutter, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, to discuss t...
26 Jan 202343min
The Book Club: Thomas Halliday
Sam's guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday, whose book Otherlands: A World In The Making takes us on an extraordinary journey through the whole history of life...
25 Jan 202353min
