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Best of the Spectator

Author: The Spectator
Feed episode count: 2646
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Summary

Home to the Spectator's best podcasts on everything from politics to religion, literature to food and drink, and more. A new podcast every day from writers worth listening to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

Holy Smoke: Mexico, the Catholic Church & the rise of the cartel cults

Duration seconds: 1654
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Jun 7, 2026 · not_requested

Reality Check: can you trust your spouse with your finances?

Duration seconds: 1198
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Jun 6, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: Nigel Farage on the battle for Makerfield

Duration seconds: 578
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Jun 5, 2026 · not_requested

The Edition: Elizabeth Day on the 'beautiful & ironic symmetry' of Reform vs Restore

Duration seconds: 2795
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Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested

The Book Club: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

Duration seconds: 2481
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Jun 2, 2026 · not_requested

Quite right!: Henry Nowak & Britain’s two-tier policing crisis

Duration seconds: 2268
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Jun 2, 2026 · not_requested

Reality Check: why price caps are pointless

Duration seconds: 601
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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Americano: who is Usha Vance?

Duration seconds: 1419
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May 31, 2026 · not_requested

Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson, James Delingpole, Daisy Dunn & Margaret Mitchell

Duration seconds: 1799
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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: who has the clearest vision for Labour? | with Rachel Wolf

Duration seconds: 926
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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

The Edition: The Pope's AI warning – and how Restore split the right, again

Duration seconds: 2879
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May 28, 2026 · not_requested

Holy Smoke: Michael Gove on why the Pope's AI intervention shames our politicians

Duration seconds: 877
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May 27, 2026 · not_requested

The Book Club: Siri Hustvedt

Duration seconds: 2321
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May 26, 2026 · not_requested

Quite Right: Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP

Duration seconds: 3012
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May 25, 2026 · not_requested

Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Flora Watkins & Nicholas Farrell

Duration seconds: 1310
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May 24, 2026 · not_requested

Americano: what Thomas Massie's lost means for the future of the Right

Duration seconds: 2012
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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: is Kemi a winner? | with Lee Cain

Duration seconds: 1883
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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

The Edition: Why Labour’s fate will be decided in the Strait of Hormuz

Duration seconds: 2151
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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

The Book Club: Alexander the Great's accidental empire

Duration seconds: 3149
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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

Quite right!: Maurice Glasman's manifesto for 'proper' Labour | Part one

Duration seconds: 1822
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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

Holy Smoke: Pope Leo one year on – a promising start?

Duration seconds: 2259
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May 17, 2026 · not_requested

Americano: what have Britons got against America?

Duration seconds: 2297
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May 16, 2026 · not_requested

The Book Club: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies

Duration seconds: 3457
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May 15, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: Steve Baker on how to oust a Prime Minister

Duration seconds: 769
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May 14, 2026 · not_requested

The Edition: Labour’s civil war is distracting from the real crisis

Duration seconds: 2771
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May 14, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: inside Labour's leadership crisis

Duration seconds: 1006
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May 12, 2026 · not_requested

Quite right!: Starmer’s last stand

Duration seconds: 1697
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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

Americano: what's going on with the Kennedy Center?

Duration seconds: 1231
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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

Spectator Out Loud: Lisa Haseldine, Roya Nikkah & Lionel Shriver

Duration seconds: 1525
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May 9, 2026 · not_requested

Quite right!: how to stage a leadership coup

Duration seconds: 1278
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May 9, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: how 'the progressives' killed Labour – Maurice Glasman

Duration seconds: 641
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May 7, 2026 · not_requested

The Edition: will Labour learn the wrong lessons from the locals?

Duration seconds: 2000
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May 7, 2026 · not_requested

The Book Club: The Poems of Sylvia Plath

Duration seconds: 2371
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May 5, 2026 · not_requested

Quite right!: how antisemitism became a 'national emergency'

Duration seconds: 1332
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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

LIVE: Conservatives vs Reform debate

Duration seconds: 1702
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May 3, 2026 · not_requested

Spectator Out Loud: Martin Vander Weyer, Freddy Gray & Arabella Byrne

Duration seconds: 1198
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May 2, 2026 · not_requested

Reality check: why Polanski is wrong about drug legalisation

Duration seconds: 997
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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

Americano: how the Declaration of Independence made America

Duration seconds: 3062
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Apr 30, 2026 · not_requested

The Edition: Britain’s fraying social contract – and what comes after Starmer?

Duration seconds: 2582
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Apr 29, 2026 · not_requested

The Book Club: How to Kill a Language

Duration seconds: 2468
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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Quite right!: Katie Lam interview

Duration seconds: 3377
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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: Morgan McSweeney faces the music

Duration seconds: 1079
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Apr 26, 2026 · not_requested

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Peter James, Zoe Strimpel and Graeme Thomson

Duration seconds: 1399
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Apr 25, 2026 · not_requested

Holy Smoke: is Pope Benedict’s Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans finally going to realise its potential?

Duration seconds: 1812
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Apr 25, 2026 · not_requested

Coffee House Shots: is this the end of Labour’s Wales?

Duration seconds: 795
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Apr 23, 2026 · not_requested

The Edition: ‘Keir Starmer has become Boris Johnson!’

Duration seconds: 2401
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Apr 22, 2026 · not_requested

The Book Club: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Duration seconds: 2780
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Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested

Quite right!: Starmer didn’t even want Mandelson – so why appoint him?

Duration seconds: 2418
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