Chinese Whispers: Mythbusting the social credit system
China's social credit system is notorious. This Black Mirror-esque network supposedly gives citizens a score, based on an opaque algorithm that feeds on data from each person's digital and physical li...
13 Jun 202254min
Boris scrapes through and Africa's grain crisis – The Week in 60 Minutes
John Connolly, The Spectator’s news editor, speaks to historian Anthony Seldon about whether Boris Johnson might resign: ‘Why on earth would he want to carry on and have more of this humiliation? Why ...
12 Jun 20221h 3min
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, John Connolly and Gus Carter
On this week's episode: Katy Balls reads her article on the cadets gunning for the Tory leadership. (00:52)John Connolly reads his investigation into the new warehouse ghettos where Britain is sending...
11 Jun 202216min
Americano: What is the point of the January 6th committee?
Freddy Gray talks to journalists Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of The National Interest, and John Daniel Davidson, senior editor of The Federalist, about the beginning of public hearings at the House Se...
10 Jun 202229min
Women With Balls: Julie Bindel
Julie Bindel is a radical feminist, journalist and activist. Growing up in Darlington, she left school aged 15, and at 16 moved to Leeds in search of – in her own words – 'scary-sounding feminists'. I...
10 Jun 202231min
The Edition: How the rebels plan to finish off Boris
In this week’s episode:Is the Prime Minister a dead man walking? Spectator Political Editor James Forsyth and MP Jesse Norman who expressed no confidence in Monday's vote discuss the future of Boris J...
9 Jun 202245min
The Book Club: China Miéville: A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto
In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by the writer China Miéville to talk about his new book A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto. China makes the case for why this 1848 document de...
8 Jun 202249min
Table Talk: Nell Hudson
Nell Hudson has starred in Outlander, Victoria and the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. Her debut novel, Just for Today, is out now: it’s about a group of twenty-somethings in London, having “head...
7 Jun 202220min
