Holy Smoke Live: Recovering the Sacred
Last week The Spectator held a live event entitled ‘Recovering the Sacred’ in the glorious surroundings of St Bartholomew the Great, the oldest parish church in the City of London.The speakers include...
14 Jul 20251h 15min
Coffee House Shots: Amanda Spielman on the SEND row and Labour’s Ofsted blind spot
As Labour looks to get a grip on public spending, one rebellion gives way to another with the changes to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system threatening to become welfare roun...
12 Jul 202522min
Spectator Out Loud: Sophia Falkner, Roger Lewis, Olivia Potts, Aidan Hartley and Toby Young
This week: Sophia Falkner profiles some of the eccentric personalities we stand to lose when Keir Starmer purges the hereditary peers; Roger Lewis’s piece on the slow delight of an OAP coach tour is r...
11 Jul 202526min
The Edition: Keir's peer purge, how to pick an archbishop & is AI ruining sport?
This week: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peersFor this week’s cover, Charles Moore declares that the hereditary principle in Parliament is dead. Even though he lacks ‘a New Model Army’ to enf...
10 Jul 202544min
The Book Club: M. John Harrison
My guest this week is the writer M. John Harrison, who joins me to talk about the rerelease of his 1992 novel The Course of the Heart – a deeply strange and riddling story of grief, friendship, memory...
9 Jul 202534min
Coffee House Shots: can Keir defrost the 'entente glaciale'?
Zut alors! The French are in town. Emmanuel Macron is on his state visit this week, spending time today with the King and tomorrow with the Prime Minister. His itinerary includes a state dinner and an...
8 Jul 202513min
Americano: Victor Davis Hanson on left-wing rage, Musk’s grudge, & America’s identity crisis
Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, historian, and author of The End of Everything, joins Freddy Gray to discuss Zoran Mamdani’s shock candidacy win, the future of the Democratic Party, and rising class ...
6 Jul 202547min
Coffee House Shots: Labour’s first year (in review) with Tim Shipman & Quentin Letts
Cast your mind back a year. Labour had just won a storming majority, promising ‘change’ to a stale Tory party that was struggling to govern. But have things got any better?In the magazine this week, T...
5 Jul 202522min
