Did the government just nationalise wages?
13 min listen
Fraser Nelson
Fraser Nelson is a Times columnist and a former editor of The Spectator.
Friday
Thursday
Monday
Can the government keep the public’s trust?
16 min listen
Saturday
Mervyn King on Radical Uncertainty
21 min listen
Fraser Nelson talks to Mervyn King about the limits of economics, where the number crunching in 2016 went wrong, and the sort of Brexit we should have.
Thursday
Podcast LIVE: Budget Special
84 min listen
Wednesday
Will Rishi Sunak’s Budget splurge pay off?
16 min listen
Friday
Will this be a coronavirus Budget?
12 min listen
Saturday
How damaging is Philip Rutnam’s resignation?
15 min listen
Is the Heathrow ruling a failure of politics?
13 min listen
Wednesday
Sajid Javid’s parting shot
15 min listen
Tuesday
Internships at The Spectator for 2020: no CVs (or names!) please
The Spectator is now the fastest-growing current affairs magazine not just in Britain but Europe. In April, we’ll become the first magazine in the world to publish a 10,000th issue. Our success is driven by our writers and those who make sparks fly here in 22 Old Queen St. When we hire, we do so
Monday
Thursday
Is Europe’s centre-ground shrinking?
41 min listen
As Sinn Fein enters coalition talks with Fianna Fail, economist Fredrik Erixon writes that the encroachment of fringe parties on the mainstream is a part of a wider European trend. What’s more, he argues that the only the mainstream parties that adapt can survive. On the podcast, Fraser Nelson bats for Fredrik’s thesis, and debates
Why Sajid Javid quit
20 min listen
The Spectator’s sales hit an all-time high of 83,000
A few months ago, The Spectator became the fastest-growing current affairs magazine not just in Britain but in Europe. Magazine industry figures are out today and we’re delighted to announce that in the second half of last year, each issue of The Spectator sold 83,020 copies, up 8.9 per cent on the year. This is
Sunday
The Sinn Fein surge has stunned Varadkar – and transformed Irish politics
You know the story. A Prime Minister takes a tough line on Brexit talks and holds a snap election thinking voters will be impressed – instead, they don’t care and it ends in disaster. It happened to Theresa May in 2017 and it just has happened to Leo Varadkar. The votes are still being counted,
Saturday
It’s a hard “Megxit” – but it might just work
In the end, it took just over a week for Prince Harry to announce and finalise the terms of his exit from the royal family. But Queen seems to have told him that, while he’s free to leave the firm, out means out. He and Meghan have agreed to give up their ‘royal highness’ titles
Thursday
Judge Boris by what he does, not how he does it
The night before our last issue went to press, I received a message from the Prime Minister saying that he was sorry, that he had hoped to write the diary but couldn’t find time. No problem, I replied, he’d just seen off Jeremy Corbyn and had a Queen’s Speech to agree and deliver and our
Wednesday
What categories should we include in our Parliamentarian of the Year awards?
In all the madness of last year, we had to delay The Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards until later this month. The first step is to agree the categories. Last time, we had “Resignation of the Year” – such a hotly-contested category that it had to be shared between David Davis and Dominic Raab, the
