Coffee House Shots: how 'the progressives' killed Labour – Maurice Glasman
As the full picture of the local elections emerges, Labour faces a dilemma: stick with Keir Starmer, or put forward an alternative?Calls for Starmer to resign have intensified, and we are braced for M...
9 Mai 10min
The Edition: will Labour learn the wrong lessons from the locals?
This week: Lara Pendergast is joined by Tim Shipman, Lionel Barber and Alice Loxton, author of Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen. They unpack Michael Gove’s cover piece which ...
7 Mai 33min
The Book Club: The Poems of Sylvia Plath
My guests on this week’s Book Club podcast are Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil, editors of the new The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a variorum collection of every poem Plath wrote. They tell me what light ...
7 Mai 39min
Quite right!: how antisemitism became a 'national emergency'
To listen to this week's podcast in full, search 'Quite right!' wherever you get your podcasts. This week: antisemitism in Britain, the government’s response – and where Reform may have gone too far.A...
5 Mai 22min
LIVE: Conservatives vs Reform debate
The Conservative party was once the natural political home for those on the right. No longer. The Tories’ vote share collapsed at the 2024 general election and the party, under new leadership, has sin...
4 Mai 28min
Spectator Out Loud: Martin Vander Weyer, Freddy Gray & Arabella Byrne
This week: Martin Vander Weyer on British steel and his chat with Andy Haldane, Freddy Gray has been stateside & Arabella Byrne on why she's no fan of the social climbing dog – whippets. Hosted on A...
3 Mai 19min
Reality check: why Polanski is wrong about drug legalisation
Britain has recorded the highest drug deaths in Europe. Green Party leader Zack Polanski has declared that this means the so called 'war on drugs' is not working, and favours a more liberal approach o...
2 Mai 16min
Americano: how the Declaration of Independence made America
King Charles and his wife Camilla have been on a state visit to the White House meeting Donald Trump and the First Lady. At a state banquet in the evening, both King Charles and Trump gave speeches ce...
1 Mai 51min
