# Best of the Spectator

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Author: The Spectator
Episodes: 2646

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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.

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## Episodes
- [Holy Smoke: Mexico, the Catholic Church & the rise of the cartel cults](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/holy-smoke-mexico-the-catholic-church-the-rise-of-the-cartel-cults) — 2026-06-08T09:00:00+00:00
- [Reality Check: can you trust your spouse with your finances?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/reality-check-can-you-trust-your-spouse-with-your-finances) — 2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: Nigel Farage on the battle for Makerfield](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-nigel-farage-on-the-battle-for-makerfield) — 2026-06-06T01:00:00+00:00
- [The Edition: Elizabeth Day on the 'beautiful & ironic symmetry' of Reform vs Restore](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-edition-elizabeth-day-on-the-beautiful-ironic-symmetry-of-reform-vs-restore) — 2026-06-05T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Book Club: Journeys Through Ancient Literature](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-journeys-through-ancient-literature) — 2026-06-03T23:01:00+00:00
- [Quite right!: Henry Nowak & Britain’s two-tier policing crisis](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-henry-nowak-britain-s-two-tier-policing-crisis) — 2026-06-02T23:01:00+00:00
- [Reality Check: why price caps are pointless](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/reality-check-why-price-caps-are-pointless) — 2026-06-02T08:00:00+00:00
- [Americano: who is Usha Vance?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/americano-who-is-usha-vance) — 2026-06-01T12:40:49+00:00
- [Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson, James Delingpole, Daisy Dunn & Margaret Mitchell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/spectator-out-loud-william-atkinson-james-delingpole-daisy-dunn-margaret-mitchell) — 2026-05-31T00:00:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: who has the clearest vision for Labour? | with Rachel Wolf](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-who-has-the-clearest-vision-for-labour-with-rachel-wolf) — 2026-05-29T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Edition: The Pope's AI warning – and how Restore split the right, again](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-edition-the-pope-s-ai-warning-and-how-restore-split-the-right-again) — 2026-05-29T00:00:00+00:00
- [Holy Smoke: Michael Gove on why the Pope's AI intervention shames our politicians](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/holy-smoke-michael-gove-on-why-the-pope-s-ai-intervention-shames-our-politicians) — 2026-05-28T10:56:14+00:00
- [The Book Club: Siri Hustvedt](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-siri-hustvedt) — 2026-05-27T00:01:00+00:00
- [Quite Right: Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-peter-murrell-s-mafia-style-snp) — 2026-05-26T19:00:00+00:00
- [Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Flora Watkins & Nicholas Farrell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/spectator-out-loud-douglas-murray-flora-watkins-nicholas-farrell) — 2026-05-25T09:00:00+00:00
- [Americano: what Thomas Massie's lost means for the future of the Right](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/americano-what-thomas-massie-s-lost-means-for-the-future-of-the-right) — 2026-05-24T08:00:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: is Kemi a winner? | with Lee Cain](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-is-kemi-a-winner-with-lee-cain) — 2026-05-22T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Edition: Why Labour’s fate will be decided in the Strait of Hormuz](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-edition-why-labour-s-fate-will-be-decided-in-the-strait-of-hormuz) — 2026-05-22T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Book Club: Alexander the Great's accidental empire](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-alexander-the-great-s-accidental-empire) — 2026-05-20T23:01:00+00:00
- [Quite right!: Maurice Glasman's manifesto for 'proper' Labour | Part one](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-maurice-glasman-s-manifesto-for-proper-labour-part-one) — 2026-05-19T23:01:00+00:00
- [Holy Smoke: Pope Leo one year on – a promising start?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/holy-smoke-pope-leo-one-year-on-a-promising-start) — 2026-05-18T23:00:00+00:00
- [Americano: what have Britons got against America?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/americano-what-have-britons-got-against-america) — 2026-05-17T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Book Club: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-how-oligarchs-dominate-our-democracies) — 2026-05-16T23:01:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: Steve Baker on how to oust a Prime Minister](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-steve-baker-on-how-to-oust-a-prime-minister) — 2026-05-15T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Edition: Labour’s civil war is distracting from the real crisis](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-edition-labour-s-civil-war-is-distracting-from-the-real-crisis) — 2026-05-14T23:01:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: inside Labour's leadership crisis](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-inside-labour-s-leadership-crisis) — 2026-05-14T13:07:19+00:00
- [Quite right!: Starmer’s last stand](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-starmer-s-last-stand) — 2026-05-12T23:01:00+00:00
- [Americano: what's going on with the Kennedy Center?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/americano-what-s-going-on-with-the-kennedy-center) — 2026-05-11T23:01:00+00:00
- [Spectator Out Loud: Lisa Haseldine, Roya Nikkah & Lionel Shriver](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/spectator-out-loud-lisa-haseldine-roya-nikkah-lionel-shriver) — 2026-05-11T13:45:19+00:00
- [Quite right!: how to stage a leadership coup](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-how-to-stage-a-leadership-coup) — 2026-05-09T23:01:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: how 'the progressives' killed Labour – Maurice Glasman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-how-the-progressives-killed-labour-maurice-glasman) — 2026-05-09T09:00:00+00:00
- [The Edition: will Labour learn the wrong lessons from the locals?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-edition-will-labour-learn-the-wrong-lessons-from-the-locals) — 2026-05-07T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Book Club: The Poems of Sylvia Plath](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-the-poems-of-sylvia-plath) — 2026-05-07T09:13:12+00:00
- [Quite right!: how antisemitism became a 'national emergency'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-how-antisemitism-became-a-national-emergency) — 2026-05-05T23:01:00+00:00
- [LIVE: Conservatives vs Reform debate](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/live-conservatives-vs-reform-debate) — 2026-05-04T23:01:00+00:00
- [Spectator Out Loud: Martin Vander Weyer, Freddy Gray & Arabella Byrne](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/spectator-out-loud-martin-vander-weyer-freddy-gray-arabella-byrne) — 2026-05-03T23:01:00+00:00
- [Reality check: why Polanski is wrong about drug legalisation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/reality-check-why-polanski-is-wrong-about-drug-legalisation) — 2026-05-02T23:01:00+00:00
- [Americano: how the Declaration of Independence made America](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/americano-how-the-declaration-of-independence-made-america) — 2026-05-01T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Edition: Britain’s fraying social contract – and what comes after Starmer?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-edition-britain-s-fraying-social-contract-and-what-comes-after-starmer) — 2026-04-30T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Book Club: How to Kill a Language](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-how-to-kill-a-language) — 2026-04-29T23:01:00+00:00
- [Quite right!: Katie Lam interview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-katie-lam-interview) — 2026-04-28T23:01:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: Morgan McSweeney faces the music](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-morgan-mcsweeney-faces-the-music) — 2026-04-28T13:29:57+00:00
- [Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Peter James, Zoe Strimpel and Graeme Thomson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/spectator-out-loud-max-jeffery-peter-james-zoe-strimpel-and-graeme-thomson) — 2026-04-26T23:01:00+00:00
- [Holy Smoke: is Pope Benedict’s Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans finally going to realise its potential?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/holy-smoke-is-pope-benedict-s-ordinariate-for-ex-anglicans-finally-going-to-realise-its-potential) — 2026-04-25T23:01:00+00:00
- [Coffee House Shots: is this the end of Labour’s Wales?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/coffee-house-shots-is-this-the-end-of-labour-s-wales) — 2026-04-25T09:48:09+00:00
- [The Edition: ‘Keir Starmer has become Boris Johnson!’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-edition-keir-starmer-has-become-boris-johnson) — 2026-04-23T23:01:00+00:00
- [The Book Club: My Year of Fear with Stephen King](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-my-year-of-fear-with-stephen-king) — 2026-04-22T23:01:00+00:00
- [Quite right!: Starmer didn’t even want Mandelson – so why appoint him?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/quite-right-starmer-didn-t-even-want-mandelson-so-why-appoint-him) — 2026-04-21T23:01:00+00:00

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