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
Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly, Gavin Mortimer, Dorian Lynskey, Steve Morris and Lloyd Evans
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly argues that Labour should look to Andy Burnham for inspiration (1:51); Gavin Mortimer asks if Britain is ready for France’s most controversial novel – ...
4 Jul 202526min
The Edition: Claws out for Keir, Mamdani’s poisoned apple & are most wedding toasts awful?
This week: one year of Labour – the verdictIn the magazine this week Tim Shipman declares his verdict on Keir Starmer’s Labour government as we approach the first anniversary of their election victory...
3 Jul 202545min
Book Club: Karin Slaughter
Sam Leith's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is one of the most popular living thriller writers. Karin Slaughter has made her native Georgia her fictional territory, and she joins Sam as she lau...
2 Jul 202535min
Holy Smoke: it’s time for Pope Leo XIV to make some tough decisions
Nearly everyone loves Robert Prevost, the unassuming baseball fan from Chicago who unexpectedly became Pope Leo XIV this year. But as he prepares to spend his summer in Castel Gandolfo he has some dif...
1 Jul 202512min
Table Talk: Thomasina Miers, co-founder of Wahaca
Thomasina Miers is a chef, writer and restaurateur who co-founded Wahaca – the award-winning restaurant group that brought bold, sustainable Mexican street food to the UK. Her new book, Mexican Table,...
1 Jul 202517min
Coffee House Shots: does Starmer still want to be PM?
There have been a number of navel-gazing interviews with the Prime Minister over the weekend. Across thousands and thousands of words, he seems to be saying – if you read between the lines – that he d...
30 Jun 202512min
Coffee House Shots: Steve Baker on how to organise a successful rebellion
As Labour rebels appear to have forced concessions from Keir Starmer over welfare this week, former Conservative MP Steve Baker joins James Heale to reflect on his own time as a rebel, and to provide ...
28 Jun 202524min
