Americano: Will Mexico help Biden stop illegal immigration?
President Biden is visiting Mexico this week to meet with President Obrador, and Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada. Biden is expected to bring up illegal immigration with Obrador, and hopes that he can...
10 Jan 202326min
Chinese Whispers: should Confucius Institutes be shut down?
Should Confucius Institutes be shut down? There are hundreds of these centres across six continents, funded by the Ministry of Education, with the stated goal of public education on and cultural promo...
9 Jan 202330min
Americano: What’s the matter with Kevin McCarthy?
Kevin McCarthy’s hopes to be voted House Speaker reaches day four still without a resolution. How much will he have to concede in order to win over the Republican rebels? Freddy Gray speaks to Amber A...
8 Jan 202323min
Spectator Out Loud: Stuart Ritchie, Mary Wakefield and Toby Young
This week: Stuart Ritchie asks how worried we should be about falling sperm counts (0:29). Mary Wakefield wants to end the term ‘making memories’. (9:00), and Toby Young shares his disastrous Airbnb e...
7 Jan 202320min
The Edition: Six more years
On the podcast this week: The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray writes the cover piece looking ahead to the possibility of another 6 years of President Biden. He is joined by Amie Parnes, senior s...
5 Jan 202343min
Table Talk: Amber Guinness
Amber Guinness is a cook, author, journalist and co-founder of The Arniano Painting School. Her first book, A House Party in Tuscany, is out now. On the podcast she discusses growing up in Tuscany, ho...
3 Jan 202322min
Podcast special: Britain’s role in the global economic recovery
Covid 19 has been a crisis without borders. In a highly interconnected world, every country has felt the impacts of the pandemic, from supply chain disruption to low productivity and high inflationary...
31 Des 202235min
Do women still face barriers in the workplace?
Since the pandemic, the nature of working has changed, and in some cases, revealed the weaknesses in the experience of work for women. With some companies eager to get back to business as usual, women...
30 Des 202228min
