Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Michael Simmons and Mary Wakefield
This week: James Heale reads his politics column on Sunak's migration minefield (00:55), Michael Simmons says that Scotland's 'progressive' teaching methods have badly backfired (05:53), and Mary Wake...
9 Dec 202317min
Women With Balls: Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith was born in Malvern, where she joined the Labour party aged 16. After graduating from Oxford, Jacqui moved to London and worked briefly as a parliamentary researcher but trained to be a t...
8 Dec 202333min
The Edition: does Keir Starmer stack up?
In her cover piece for the magazine this week, The Spectator’s political editor Katy Balls writes that whilst Keir Starmer’s accession seems certain, his agenda is less so. She tries to piece together...
7 Dec 202338min
The 26 million: how to care for people living with long-term health conditions
How should we think of the 26 million people in the UK living with a long-term health condition? Under the current system, only a handful of long-term conditions are prioritised. This leads to a huge ...
7 Dec 20231h 4min
The Book Club: Andrew Lycett
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Arthur Conan Doyle's biographer (and historical consultant to the new BBC TV programme Killing Sherlock) Andrew Lycett. Introducing his new book The Worlds...
6 Dec 202338min
Table Talk: Tara Wigley
Tara Wigley is the in-house writer for the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, she also has a weekly column in the Guardian and a monthly column in the New York Times which she shares with Yotam Ottolenghi.On th...
5 Dec 202331min
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Lionel Shriver and Marcus Walker
This week: Katy Balls on what the Elgin Marbles row is really about (00:56); Lionel Shriver on feckless politicians when it comes to immigration (06:43) and Marcus Walker on his rage against multi-fai...
2 Dec 202322min
The Edition: carbon capture
On the podcast:In her cover piece for the magazine, The Spectator's assistant editor Cindy Yu – writing ahead of the COP28 summit this weekend – describes how China has cornered the renewables market....
30 Nov 202329min
