The Edition Podcast
1) The 'boring twenties', population decline & happy new year
A far cry from the ‘roaring twenties' of the early 20th Century, the 2020s can be characterised as the ‘boring twenties’, argue Gus Carter and Rupert Hawksley in our new year edition of the ...Show More
2) From Porn Britannia to Political Chaos: The Spectator’s Year in Review
The Spectator’s senior editorial team – Michael Gove, Freddy Gray, Lara Prendergast and William Moore – sit down to reflect on 2025. From Trump’s inauguration to the calamitous year for Labour, a new ...Show More
3) From The Queen to Bonnie Blue: The Spectator’s Christmas Edition 2025
The Spectator’s bumper Christmas issue is a feast for all, with offerings from Nigel Farage, Matthew McConaughey and Andrew Strauss to Dominic Sandbrook, David Deutsch and Bonnie Blue – and even ...Show More
4) Benefits Britain, mental health & what’s the greatest artwork of the 21st Century?
‘Labour is now the party of welfare, not work’ argues Michael Simmons in the Spectator’s cover article this week. The question ‘why should I bother with work?’ is becoming harder to answer, ...Show More
5) Defending marriage, broken Budgets & the 'original sin’ of industrialisation
'Marriage is the real rebellion’ argues Madeline Grant in the Spectator’s cover article this week. The Office for National Statistics predicts that by 2050 only 30 per cent of adults will be...Show More
Defending marriage, broken Budgets & the 'original sin’ of industrialisation
35:37 | Nov 28th, 2025
6) Labour's toxic budget, Zelensky in trouble & Hitler's genitalia
It’s time to scrap the budget, argues political editor Tim Shipman this week. An annual fiscal event only allows the Chancellor to tinker round the edges, faced with a backdrop of global uncertainty. ...Show More
7) BBC in crisis, the Wes Streeting plot & why 'flakes' are the worst
Can the BBC be fixed? After revelations of bias from a leaked dossier, subsequent resignations and threats of legal action from the US President, the future of the corporation is the subject of this w...Show More
8) Trump’s gilded age, the ‘hell’ of polyamory & is Polanski Britain’s Mamdani?
A year on from his presidential election victory, what lessons can Britain learn from Trump II? Tim Shipman writes this week’s cover piece from Washington D.C., considering where Keir Starmer can ‘go ...Show More
Trump’s gilded age, the ‘hell’ of polyamory & is Polanski Britain’s Mamdani?
31:50 | Nov 6th, 2025
9) Embracing the occult, going underground & lost languages
Big Tech is under the spell of the occult, according to Damian Thompson. Artificial intelligence is now so incredible that even educated westerners are falling back on the occult, and Silicon Valley b...Show More
10) Left-wing Ultras, Reform intellectuals & capitalist sex robots
‘The Ultras’ are the subject of The Spectator’s cover story this week – this is the new Islamo-socialist alliance that has appeared on the left of British politics. Several independent MPs, elected am...Show More