Reality Check: why price caps are pointless
The government have rolled back on plans to impose price caps in supermarkets. Was Reeves wrong to go after them for price gouging? Michael Simmons has the data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
2 Juni 10min
Americano: who is Usha Vance?
Freddy Gray is joined by Sarah Beth Spraggins to discuss her piece on Usha Vance, the wife of JD Vance who could be in line to be the next First Lady. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
1 Juni 23min
Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson, James Delingpole, Daisy Dunn & Margaret Mitchell
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson sends his dispatch from the Shetland Islands; James Delingpole remembers Malcolm, his ‘gloriously unfiltered’ father; Daisy Dunn reviews Mary Beard’...
31 Maj 29min
Coffee House Shots: who has the clearest vision for Labour? | with Rachel Wolf
When it comes to political vision, Keir Starmer’s premiership has been something of a vacuum – and power abhors a vacuum. So cue Tony Blair, who this week has rushed in with a 5,000-word essay on what...
29 Maj 15min
The Edition: The Pope's AI warning – and how Restore split the right, again
For this week’s Edition, Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectator's deputy editor Freddy Gray, associate editor – and host of the Holy Smoke podcast – Damian Thompson and consultant psychiatrist an...
29 Maj 47min
Holy Smoke: Michael Gove on why the Pope's AI intervention shames our politicians
The Spectator's editor Michael Gove ‘was born into a sternly Presbyterian culture’, but – in this week's magazine – is ‘giving thanks to the Pope’ for producing Magnifica Humanitas, his encyclical abo...
28 Maj 14min
The Book Club: Siri Hustvedt
Sam Leith's guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Siri Hustvedt, talking about her new book, Ghost Stories, a memoir of her long and loving marriage to the novelist Paul Auster, and of his death f...
27 Maj 38min
Quite Right: Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP
Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP & could the Reform-Restore feud hand Burnham Makerfield?This week: the Peter Murrell scandal and the collapse of the SNP’s moral authority. After Nicola Sturgeon’s estr...
26 Maj 50min
