The Edition: new world disorder, cholesterol pseudoscience vs scepticism & the magic of Dickens
This week: the world needs a realist resetDonald Trump’s presidency is the harbinger of many things, writes The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove, one of which is a return to a more pitiless world lands...
20 Feb 202548min
The Book Club: The World in the Ocean
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist and critic James Bradley whose new book is Deep Water: The World in the Ocean. He tells me how we need to rethink our relationship with the se...
19 Feb 202548min
Americano: Rob Henderson on Musk, monogamy & meritocracy
Political commentator, and author of Troubled, Rob Henderson joins Freddy Gray from the ARC conference in London. They discuss the political reaction to the news that Elon Musk has allegedly had his 1...
18 Feb 202535min
Holy Smoke: Why militant atheists don’t understand religion, a conversation with Alister McGrath
In his new book Why We Believe: Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times, Prof Alister McGrath rejects the notion that belief is a relic of the past and takes aim at the ‘new atheists’ who attack religion w...
17 Feb 202535min
Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Andrew Kenny, Lara Prendergast, Ysenda Maxtone Graham and Nina Power
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: James Heale wonders what Margaret Thatcher would make of today’s Conservatives (1:28); Andrew Kenny analyses South Africa’s expropriation act (6:13); Lara Prendergas...
16 Feb 202540min
Coffee House Shots: Kemi vs Nigel - who would Thatcher have backed?
It is 50 years since Margaret Thatcher was elected Conservative leader, and at this week’s shadow cabinet meeting, Lord Forsyth was invited as a guest speaker to mark the occasion. He noted the simila...
15 Feb 202514min
Americano: does Trump’s foreign policy make any sense? with Prof John Mearsheimer
Professor John Mearsheimer comes back on the Americano show with Freddy Gray to discuss how seriously we should take Trump's foreign policy. They cover the President's plans to rebuild Gaza, why Netan...
14 Feb 202556min
The Edition: Britain’s bureaucratic bloat, debating surrogacy & is smoking ‘sexy’?
This week: The Spectator launches SPAFFThe civil service does one thing right, writes The Spectator’s data editor Michael Simmons: spaffing money away. The advent of Elon Musk’s DOGE in the US has ins...
13 Feb 202539min
