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The 'beautiful & ironic symmetry' of Reform vs Restore – with Elizabeth Day
For this week’s Edition , Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectator 's political editor Tim Shipman, the writer Guy Stagg and the author a...
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...
Why Labour’s fate will be decided in the Strait of Hormuz
For this week’s Edition , Lara Prendergast is joined by The Spectator 's John Power, feminist campaigner Julie Bindel and former adviser to...
‘This is deranged!’: Labour’s civil war is distracting from the real crisis
This week: William Moore is joined by The Spectator’s political correspondent Noa Hoffman, Telegraph columnist and Planet Normal co-host Lia...
Starmergeddon? How the locals will change Labour – with Alice Loxton & Lionel Barber
This week: Lara Pendergast is joined by Tim Shipman, Lionel Barber and Alice Loxton, author of Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England...
‘Bring back shame!’ – is Britain’s social contract broken? | with Trevor Phillips
In this week’s podcast, William Moore is joined by The Spectator ’s economics editor Michael Simmons, assistant editor Isabel Hardman and Ti...
‘Keir Starmer has become Boris Johnson!’ with Prue Leith & Peter Frankopan
In this week’s podcast, the panel unpacks Tim Shipman’s explosive cover story, including a leaked message suggesting just how closely Starme...
Trump vs the Pope: Rowan Williams on America's 'demonic' political climate
The Pope is 'WEAK on crime and terrible on foreign policy' – this was the verdict of the President of the United States this week, as he app...
Is Britain losing its sense of fairness?
Has Britain become a freeloader’s paradise, asks the Spectator ’s economics editor Michael Simmons in our cover piece this week. Michael ana...
Is politics becoming more religious? With Tom Holland & Jonathan Sumption
Is British politics becoming more religious? Madeline Grant certainly thinks so, arguing – in the Spectator ’s cover article – that the next...
Does British politics have a problem with the 'omnicause'?
It is undoubtable that – under the leadership of Zack Polanski – the Green Party have soared to new heights. Having won their first parliame...
Does Nigel Farage really want to be Prime Minister?
Nigel Farage is a shark – hell bent on devouring Britain's political class, as illustrated with the Spectator 's cover story this week, co-a...
America's Iran gamble – why the Royals could be Britain's Trump card
As oil prices rise, the Spectator ’s cover story this week – written by deputy editor Freddy Gray – wonders if Trump’s gamble has backfired,...
Iran: Why Trump's ultimate target in this war is China – with Maurice Glasman
As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, what is Trump’s game plan? The Spectator ’s cover piece this week, by Geoffrey Cain, argues th...
Is Labour too close to the City – with Lionel Shriver & Robert Hardman
Britain’s banks have a hold over Rachel Reeves, declares Michael Simmons in the Spectator’s cover piece this week. Almost two decades on fro...
Britain is not ready for war – and Labour isn’t doing enough
Britain is defenceless, declares the Spectator's cover piece this week. From the size of the armed forces to protection against cyber warfar...
Labour turns on Starmer – inside the collapse, with Guto Harri, Tim Shipman & Toby Young
‘Authority is like virginity. Once it’s gone, it’s gone’ – that's just one of the damning quotes about Keir Starmer that Tim Shipman has ext...
AI will bring down Keir Starmer – if Peter Mandelson doesn’t first
Is Britain ready for Artificial Intelligence? Well, bluntly, 'no'; that's the verdict if you read several pieces in this week's Spectator –...
‘No-one voted for them’ – Douglas Murray on the men actually running Britain
Who really runs Britain: the government, foreign courts or international lawyers? This question is at the heart of Michael Gove’s cover piec...