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
Americano: Will Mexico help Biden stop illegal immigration?
President Biden is visiting Mexico this week to meet with President Obrador, and Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada. Biden is expected to bring up illegal immigration with Obrador, and hopes that he can...
10 Jan 202326min
Chinese Whispers: should Confucius Institutes be shut down?
Should Confucius Institutes be shut down? There are hundreds of these centres across six continents, funded by the Ministry of Education, with the stated goal of public education on and cultural promo...
9 Jan 202330min
Americano: What’s the matter with Kevin McCarthy?
Kevin McCarthy’s hopes to be voted House Speaker reaches day four still without a resolution. How much will he have to concede in order to win over the Republican rebels? Freddy Gray speaks to Amber A...
8 Jan 202323min
Spectator Out Loud: Stuart Ritchie, Mary Wakefield and Toby Young
This week: Stuart Ritchie asks how worried we should be about falling sperm counts (0:29). Mary Wakefield wants to end the term ‘making memories’. (9:00), and Toby Young shares his disastrous Airbnb e...
7 Jan 202320min
The Edition: Six more years
On the podcast this week: The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray writes the cover piece looking ahead to the possibility of another 6 years of President Biden. He is joined by Amie Parnes, senior s...
5 Jan 202343min
Table Talk: Amber Guinness
Amber Guinness is a cook, author, journalist and co-founder of The Arniano Painting School. Her first book, A House Party in Tuscany, is out now. On the podcast she discusses growing up in Tuscany, ho...
3 Jan 202322min
