The Edition: gender wars
On the podcast this week: In his cover piece for the magazine Iain Macwhirter writes in the aftermath of the government’s decision to block the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill from gaining Roy...
19 Jan 202338min
The Book Club: Ashley Ward
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Ashley Ward, author of Sensational: A New Story of our Senses, which takes us on a cultural, historical and neurobiological tour of the sensorium. Along th...
18 Jan 202359min
Table Talk: Luke Farrell
Luke Farrell is a restauranteur and founder of two of London's fieriest new openings, Plaza Khao Gaeng and Speedboat Bar. He has spent the last few years dividing his time between Thailand and his nur...
17 Jan 202328min
Americano: is university the enemy of American progress?
Freddy Gray speaks to author and founder of the venture capitalist fund 1517 Michael Gibson, about his new book Paper Belt on Fire. On the podcast they discuss the parallels between universities and t...
16 Jan 202347min
The Week in 60 Minutes: Harry's 'truth' and the case for Keir
On the show, journalist Petronella Wyatt and historian David Abulafia discuss Prince Harry’s new book, Spare, journalist Owen Matthews explains why Putin’s plan to freeze Europe failed, Spectator edit...
15 Jan 202359min
Spectator Out Loud: Lionel Shriver, Theo Hobson and John Maier
This week: Lionel Shriver asks whether we are kidding ourselves over Ukraine (00:56), Theo Hobson discusses Martin Luther King and the demise of liberal Protestantism (09:28), and John Maier reads his...
14 Jan 202324min
The Edition: who's afraid of Keir Starmer?
This week:Who's afraid of Keir Starmer?In his cover piece for the magazine, The Spectator's Editor Fraser Nelson says that without a Labour demon to point at the Tories stand little chance in the next...
12 Jan 202340min
The Book Club: A. E. Stallings
In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the distinguished poet A. E. Stallings, whose new selected poems This Afterlife marks her first UK publication in book form. She tells me why the idea tha...
11 Jan 202338min
