Americano: how authoritarian is Trump 2.0?
On this episode, Nick Gillespie, Reason's editor at large, joins Freddy to discuss whether Trump 2.0 is really as authoritarian as people say. Is he closer to a gangster than a dictator? They also dis...
9 Sep 202532min
Coffee House Shots: Reform's Zia Yusuf in conversation with Michael Gove
At the Reform conference in Birmingham, the Spectator's editor Michael Gove sat down with Reform UK's head of their department of government efficiency Zia Yusuf. They discussed Labour's track record ...
8 Sep 20251h 10min
Holy Smoke: why the canonisation of the first millennial saint is a cause to celebrate
The Catholic Church will acquire its first millennial saint today, when Pope Leo XIV canonises someone who, if he were alive today, would be young enough to be his son. Carlo Acutis, a ‘computer geek’...
7 Sep 202536min
Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman, Colin Freeman, Rachel Clarke, Michael Gove & Melanie Ferbreach
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman interviews shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick (plus – Tim explains the significance of Jenrick’s arguments in a special introduction); Colin Freeman...
6 Sep 202539min
The Edition: Reform’s camp following, masculine rage & why do people make up languages?
First: Reform is naff – and that’s why people like itGareth Roberts warns this week that ‘the Overton window is shifting’ but in a very unexpected way. Nigel Farage is ahead in the polls – not only be...
5 Sep 202550min
The Book Club: Lea Ypi
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the Albanian-born political philosopher Lea Ypi, whose new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined reconstructs the story of her grandmother’s early life amid th...
4 Sep 202547min
Quite right!: Farage steals summer, Starmer’s reset flop & should we 'raise the colours'?
Michael Gove and Madeline Grant launch ‘Quite right!’, the new podcast from The Spectator that promises sanity and common sense in a world that too often lacks both.In their first episode, they take s...
2 Sep 202548min
Americano: do mass shootings begin online?
Freddy Gray is joined by writer and internet ethnographer Katherine Dee. She's written about the Minneapolis school shooting and Robin Westman for Spectator World. Two children were killed and 17 othe...
2 Sep 202531min
