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The Spectator's flagship podcast featuring discussions and debates on the best features from the week's edition. Presented by Lara Prendergast and William Moore.

Recent Episodes
  • See change, A.I. ghouls & long live the long lunch!
    Apr 24, 2025 – 37:43
  • Easter special: assisted dying, ‘bunny ebola’ & how do you eat your creme egg?
    Apr 17, 2025 – 34:08
  • Trump shock, cousin marriage & would you steal from a restaurant?
    Apr 10, 2025 – 38:44
  • Cruel Labour, the decline of sacred spaces & Clandon Park’s controversial restoration
    Apr 3, 2025 – 50:51
  • The age of the strongman, Tesla under attack & matinee revivals
    Mar 27, 2025 – 34:37
  • Labour’s growing pains, survival of the hottest & murder most fascinating
    Mar 20, 2025 – 42:56
  • Massacre of the innocents, saving endangered languages & Gen Z’s ‘Boom Boom’ aesthetic
    Mar 13, 2025 – 37:21
  • Why Ukraine's minerals matter, the NHS's sterilisation problem & remembering the worst poet in history
    Mar 6, 2025 – 42:20
  • Inside Nigel’s gang, my day as a ‘missing person’ & how to save James Bond
    Feb 27, 2025 – 37:39
  • New world disorder, cholesterol pseudoscience vs scepticism & the magic of Dickens
    Feb 20, 2025 – 48:23
  • Britain’s bureaucratic bloat, debating surrogacy & is smoking ‘sexy’?
    Feb 13, 2025 – 39:14
  • Labour's Irish insurgent, Germany's 'firewall' falls & finding joy in obituaries
    Feb 6, 2025 – 47:44
  • Migration mystery, Ipso’s trans muddle & are you a ‘trad dad’?
    Jan 30, 2025 – 45:38
  • Industry tragedy, Trump vs the Pope & the depressing reality of sex parties
    Jan 23, 2025 – 42:01
  • Empire of Trump, the creep of child-free influencers & is fact-checking a fiction?
    Jan 16, 2025 – 42:19
  • The truth about grooming gangs, 'why I'm voting for the AfD' & exploring YouTube rabbit holes
    Jan 9, 2025 – 47:00
  • The West's right turn, Michael Gove interviews Jordan Peterson & the ADHD trap
    Jan 2, 2025 – 46:11
  • Best of 2024 with Dominic Sandbrook, Mary Beard and Harriet Harman
    Dec 26, 2024 – 01:14:55
  • Christmas Special 2024 with Rod Liddle, Lionel Shriver, Matthew Parris and Mary Wakefield
    Dec 12, 2024 – 01:10:36
  • How twee triumphed, Graham Brady on Tory turmoil & celebrating pigs in blankets
    Dec 5, 2024 – 37:08
  • SAS betrayal, the battle for Odesa & in defence of film flops
    Nov 28, 2024 – 47:31
  • Streeting vs Starmer, medical misinformation & the surprising history of phallic graffiti
    Nov 21, 2024 – 43:15
  • Elon's America, Welby's legacy & celebrating Beaujolais Day
    Nov 14, 2024 – 44:58
  • Trump's comeback, Labour's rural divide, and World of Warcraft
    Nov 7, 2024 – 36:38
  • Team Trump, astrologers versus pollsters & debating history
    Oct 31, 2024 – 43:03
  • Cambridge in crisis, Trump’s wicked humour & the beauty of AI ceramics
    Oct 24, 2024 – 52:33
  • Reeves's gambit, a debate on assisted dying & queer life in postwar Britain
    Oct 17, 2024 – 52:07
  • Labour’s China pivot, Yvette Cooper’s extremism crackdown & the ladies who punch
    Oct 10, 2024 – 48:09
  • Israel's revenge, farewell Fraser & the demise of invitations
    Oct 3, 2024 – 37:02
  • Tory wars, the reality of trail hunting & is Sally Rooney-mania over?
    Sep 26, 2024 – 42:30
  • Farage's plan, the ethics of euthanasia & Xi's football failure
    Sep 19, 2024 – 44:54
  • Trump’s debate woes, how to catch a paedo & the politics of the hotel breakfast buffet
    Sep 12, 2024 – 38:35
  • Miliband's net zero madness, meet Reform’s new poster boy & the plight of the restaurant critic
    Sep 5, 2024 – 38:30
  • Alt reich: Is Germany's far right about to go mainstream?
    Aug 29, 2024 – 45:27
  • All hail Harris! Can Kamala bluff her way to the top?
    Aug 22, 2024 – 35:47
  • Power play: Zelensky's plan for his Russian conquests
    Aug 15, 2024 – 40:12
  • Why Britain riots
    Aug 8, 2024 – 33:00
  • Keir Starmer’s plan to soften Brexit
    Aug 1, 2024 – 41:56
  • The curious rise of Kamala Harris
    Jul 25, 2024 – 47:51
  • Is Donald Trump now unstoppable?
    Jul 18, 2024 – 37:02
  • Keir's reformation: Labour's radical plans
    Jul 11, 2024 – 48:21
  • The reckoning: it's payback time for voters
    Jul 4, 2024 – 38:18
  • Downfall: how Nigel Farage became the left's greatest weapon
    Jun 27, 2024 – 43:42
  • Lawfare: how Starmer will govern through the courts
    Jun 20, 2024 – 40:25
  • Macron's game: can he still outplay Le Pen?
    Jun 13, 2024 – 45:31
  • The Farage factor
    Jun 6, 2024 – 44:44
  • Wannabes: are any of them ready?
    May 30, 2024 – 35:07
  • The deluge: Rishi Sunak’s election gamble
    May 23, 2024 – 52:40
  • Veep show: who will Trump pick for his running mate?
    May 16, 2024 – 47:23
  • Drama students: how universities raised a generation of activists
    May 9, 2024 – 38:40
Recent Reviews
  • Cvmaddux
    Freddy “the Fraudulent” Grey
    In the July 25 edition, Freddy Gray attacks President Joe Biden as a “fraud” (he nearly spits as he’s saying it with pronounced contempt) but slavishly drools over former President Trump, who attempted to steal an election and to this day falsely claims that he wom the 2020 election. Grey is a Brit, not an American no matter how hard he tries to convince his snobby bosses how much he knows about American politics. He doesn’t know. He calls MAGA people in the US and calls it reporting. Grey is the (journalistic) fraud. I’ve unsubscribed and cancelled my Spectator subscriptions.
  • C. Thomas Mitchell
    Not a change for the better, in my view
    I preferred the previous format for the show, not a fan of the “inside baseball” approach to the production of the magazine. Still, I very much appreciate the magazine, writers and content.
  • Be a Triz
    Kate the uninformed
    Find a better US analyst. I won’t listen to that Kate lady anymore. Everything else is fine.
  • Sc wahoo
    A must for every day
    Smart, exacting, unrepentant — a breath of fresh, clear air in an otherwise loud and distracted marketplace of ideas.
  • Daniel Berlin Brigade
    🇬🇧🇬🇧it’s a new must
    For me. In our blizzard of stupidity these voices soothe my soul.
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