Book Club: Fast Food Nation – revisited
In this week’s Book Club podcast Sam Leith's guest is Eric Schlosser, the investigative journalist whose Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is being reissued as a Penguin Modern ...
12 Feb 41min
Quite right!: 'Keir Starmer is the problem'
To hear to this week's episode in full, search 'Quite right!' wherever you are listening now. This week: Michael and Maddie examine the crisis engulfing the Labour party and ask whether Keir Starmer i...
11 Feb 17min
Americano: what will happen in the mid terms?
The midterm elections in November is shaping up to be one of the most expensive elections yet. Freddy Gray and Ryan Girdusky, author of National Populist Substack to discuss how inflation, crime, and ...
10 Feb 35min
Coffee House Shots: McSweeney resigns – is Starmer next?
Morgan McSweeney resigned yesterday as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and – while it was not a surprise, given his role in appointing Peter Mandelson – the news that the Prime Minister has now lost his...
9 Feb 24min
Spectator Out Loud: Piers Morgan, Melanie McDonagh, Matt Ridley & Rachel Johnson
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Piers Morgan reveals what Donald Trump told him from his hospital bed; Melanie McDonagh ponders the impermanence of email, amidst the Peter Mandelson scandal; Matt R...
9 Feb 23min
Holy Smoke: has AI created its own religion?
What did you most recently use Artificial Intelligence for? For most people, the answer would be as a glorified search function, using services like Chat GPT to ask questions, draft text and even prod...
8 Feb 18min
Coffee House Shots: Jonathan Hinder on Starmer, Mandelson & a 'bad' local elections
On this special edition of Coffee House Shots, Tim Shipman is joined by Jonathan Hinder – a rising star of the back benches and a blue Labour acolyte – for a candid discussion about the state of the L...
7 Feb 34min
The Edition: AI will bring down Keir Starmer – if Peter Mandelson doesn’t first
Is Britain ready for Artificial Intelligence? Well, bluntly, 'no'; that's the verdict if you read several pieces in this week's Spectator – from Tim Shipman, Ross Clark and Palantir UK boss Louis Mosl...
6 Feb 43min
