The Edition Podcast
1) Introducing... Quite Right!
Michael Gove and Madeline Grant launch ‘Quite right!’, the new podcast from The Spectator that promises sanity and common sense in a world that too often lacks both.Coffee House Shots listeners can en...Show More
2) Reform’s camp following, masculine rage & why do people make up languages?
First: Reform is naff – and that’s why people like itGareth Roberts warns this week that ‘the Overton window is shifting’ but in a very unexpected way. Nigel Farage is ahead in the polls – not only be...Show More
3) The coming crash, a failing foster system & ‘DeathTok’
First: an economic reckoning is looming ‘Britain’s numbers… don’t add up’, says economics editor Michael Simmons. We are ‘an ageing population with too few taxpayers’. ‘If the picture looks bad n...Show More
4) Putin’s trap, the decline of shame & holiday rental hell
First: Putin has set a trap for Europe and Ukraine ‘Though you wouldn’t know from the smiles in the White House this week… a trap has been set by Vladimir Putin to split the United States from it...Show More
5) Border lands, 200 years of British railways & who are the GOATs?
First: how Merkel killed the European dream ‘Ten years ago,’ Lisa Haseldine says, ‘Angela Merkel told the German press what she was going to do about the swell of Syrian refugees heading to Europ...Show More
6) Reform’s motherland, Meloni’s Italian renaissance & the adults learning to swim
First: Nigel Farage is winning over womenDoes – or did – Nigel Farage have a woman problem? ‘Around me there’s always been a perception of a laddish culture,’ he tells political editor Tim Shipman. In...Show More
7) Under CTRL, the Epping migrant protests & why is ‘romantasy’ so popular?
First: the new era of censorship A year ago, John Power notes, the UK was consumed by race riots precipitated by online rumours about the perpetrator of the Southport atrocity. This summer, there...Show More
8) Soul suckers of private equity, Douglas Murray on Epstein & are literary sequels ‘lazy’?
The soul suckers of private equity, Douglas Murray on Epstein and MAGA & are literary sequels ‘lazy’?First up: how private equity is ruining BritainGus Carter writes in the magazine this week about ho...Show More
9) How the Bank broke Britain, Zelensky’s choice & the joys of mudlarking
First up: how the Bank of England wrecked the economyBritain’s economy is teetering on the brink of a deep fiscal hole, created by billions of pounds of unfunded spending – never-ending health promise...Show More
10) Keir's peer purge, how to pick an archbishop & is AI ruining sport?
This week: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peersFor this week’s cover, Charles Moore declares that the hereditary principle in Parliament is dead. Even though he lacks ‘a New Model Army’ to enf...Show More