The Book Club: The Poems of Sylvia Plath
My guests on this week’s Book Club podcast are Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil, editors of the new The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a variorum collection of every poem Plath wrote. They tell me what light ...
7 Maj 39min
Quite right!: how antisemitism became a 'national emergency'
To listen to this week's podcast in full, search 'Quite right!' wherever you get your podcasts. This week: antisemitism in Britain, the government’s response – and where Reform may have gone too far.A...
5 Maj 22min
LIVE: Conservatives vs Reform debate
The Conservative party was once the natural political home for those on the right. No longer. The Tories’ vote share collapsed at the 2024 general election and the party, under new leadership, has sin...
4 Maj 28min
Spectator Out Loud: Martin Vander Weyer, Freddy Gray & Arabella Byrne
This week: Martin Vander Weyer on British steel and his chat with Andy Haldane, Freddy Gray has been stateside & Arabella Byrne on why she's no fan of the social climbing dog – whippets. Hosted on A...
3 Maj 19min
Reality check: why Polanski is wrong about drug legalisation
Britain has recorded the highest drug deaths in Europe. Green Party leader Zack Polanski has declared that this means the so called 'war on drugs' is not working, and favours a more liberal approach o...
2 Maj 16min
Americano: how the Declaration of Independence made America
King Charles and his wife Camilla have been on a state visit to the White House meeting Donald Trump and the First Lady. At a state banquet in the evening, both King Charles and Trump gave speeches ce...
1 Maj 51min
The Edition: Britain’s fraying social contract – and what comes after Starmer?
In this week’s podcast, William Moore is joined by The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons, assistant editor Isabel Hardman and Times columnist and Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips. The pan...
30 Apr 43min
The Book Club: How to Kill a Language
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Sophia Smith-Galer, talking about her new book How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words. Sophia tells me why languages are...
29 Apr 41min
