Coffee House Shots: why can't we agree on data?
John O’Neill and Sam McPhail, the Spectator’s research and data team, join economics editor Michael Simmons to re-introduce listeners to the Spectator’s data hub. They take us through the process betw...
4 Aug 202511min
Spectator Out Loud: Michael Simmons, Kapil Komireddi, Margaret Mitchell, David Abulafia and Melissa Kite
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Michael Simmons argues that Trump is winning the tariff war with China; Kapil Komireddi reviews Robert Ivermee’s Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Im...
4 Aug 202526min
Holy Smoke: Massacres in Syria and the Congo
Massacres in Syria and the Congo: why aren't Western elites, including the Churches, drawing attention to religious persecution?After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, many people voiced fears th...
3 Aug 202527min
Coffee House Shots: the Online Safety Act vs free speech
Is the Online Safety Act protecting children – or threatening free speech? Michael Simmons hosts John Power, who writes the Spectator's cover piece this week on how the Act has inadvertently created o...
2 Aug 202526min
Americano: Lionel Shriver on Trump’s second term
Lionel Shriver on Trump’s vendetta, Mamdani’s ‘stupid’ ideas & sentimental immigrationDeputy US editor Kate Andrews is joined by author and Spectator columnist Lionel Shriver to assess Donald Trump’s ...
1 Aug 202535min
The Edition: Under CTRL, the Epping migrant protests & why is ‘romantasy’ so popular?
First: the new era of censorshipA year ago, John Power notes, the UK was consumed by race riots precipitated by online rumours about the perpetrator of the Southport atrocity. This summer, there have ...
31 Jul 202538min
Book Club: Gary Shteyngart
Sam Leith is joined for this week's Book Club podcast by Gary Shteyngart — whose new novel Vera, or Faith is set in a near-future America whose politics seems to be less science-fictional by the day. ...
30 Jul 202534min
Americano: what should we make of Trump's trip to the UK?
Donald Trump is in Scotland, holding court at Turnberry. He's welcomed Sir Keir and Lady Victoria Starmer to his golf course, and had a long discussion with reporters at a wide ranging press conferenc...
29 Jul 202526min
