Chinese Whispers: What lies at the root of the India-China rivalry?
India is the fifth largest economy in the world, and now has a population larger than China’s. It’s no surprise, then, that officials in Washington often see India as a powerful non-western bulwark to...
8 Jan 202445min
Why Sturgeon’s trans bill threatens women
Julie Bindel speaks to law academic, Michael Foran who is based at the University of Glasgow. Michael played a key role campaigning against Nicola Sturgeon who attempted to push through the Gender Rec...
7 Jan 202435min
Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, James Heale and Theo Hobson
This week: Svitlana Morenets explains why Ukrainians can't trust Putin's hollow promises (00:57), James Heale reads his politics column on Rishi's January blues (05:42), and Theo Hobson describes the ...
6 Jan 202416min
Americano: has Claudine Gay wrecked Harvard?
For the first Americano episode of 2024, Freddy Gray is joined by Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars to discuss Claudine Gay's resignation from Harvard University. On the po...
5 Jan 202439min
The Edition: Putin’s ‘peace’ is a partitioned Ukraine
On the podcast:In his new year’s address this year Vladimir Putin made no mention of the war in Ukraine – despite missile strikes over the Christmas period – and now Owen Matthews reports in The Spect...
4 Jan 202451min
The Book Club: Anne Applebaum
The Book Club is taking a brief Christmas break, so we have gone back through the archives to spotlight some of our favourite episodes. This week we are revisiting Sam's conversation from 2017 with th...
3 Jan 202425min
Table Talk: Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher is a novelist and regular contributor to The Spectator’s books pages. His books cover a variety of subjects and often deal with important historical change, such as the fall of the Berl...
2 Jan 202430min
The Book Club: Robert Webb
The Book Club is taking a brief Christmas break, so we have gone back through the archives to spotlight some of our favourite episodes. This week we are revisiting Sam's conversation from 2017 with Ro...
27 Dec 202326min
