Why did Bernie Sanders drop out?
32 min listen
Freddy Gray
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
Friday
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Sunday
Let’s applaud mothers — the real key workers
Our daughter Clementine, 5, has just decided what she wants to be when she grows up. ‘A cleaner …. and a mother,’ she says, in that order. Her mother, my wife Taffeta, winces at Clemmie’s ambition. Middle-class rules dictate that we should try to knock such traditional notions out of little girls’ brains. It’s not
Friday
Tucker Carlson on coronavirus, Trump, and Biden
42 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Fox News host Tucker Carlson about the coronavirus, his meeting with President Trump and whether Joe Biden will make it as far as the Oval Office.
Wednesday
Who would be Biden’s vice president?
22 min listen
Friday
Tuesday
How is America coping with the coronavirus?
18 min listen
Saturday
America has a choice between two kinds of crazy
‘We are the United States of Amnesia,’ said Gore Vidal in 2004. These days, it’s more the United States of Dementia. In 2020, the country seems determined to choose between two elderly men who, it is fair to say, are some distance from sanity. Joe Biden, the 77-year-old who even aides admit has lost his
Friday
Has coronavirus killed Trump’s presidency?
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Wednesday
Can Bernie stop Biden?
24 min listen
Saturday
My worrying encounter with Joe Biden
I met Joe Biden last month, after one of his town hall events in New Hampshire. His team had turned the music up loud, presumably so that 77-year-old Joe — the gaffe machine from Scranton, Pennsylvania — would not be recorded saying something stupid as he mingled with the fans and reporters. I shook Biden’s
Wednesday
What’s behind Biden’s Super Tuesday victory?
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Monday
Why has Mayor Pete dropped out?
22 min listen
Saturday
The best news for Bernie is that his rivals are so weak
‘Bernie beats Trump! Bernie beats Trump!’ That’s what Bernie Sanders’s fans keep chanting, and they have the polls to prove it. Survey after survey suggests that, of all the leading candidates for the Democratic party’s nomination, Sanders is most likely to defeat Donald Trump in the election in November. Voters like Bernie. Some 46 per
Friday
Could the coronavirus cost Trump the presidency?
15 min listen
Saturday
Battle of the billionaires: Trump vs Bloomberg could be the nastiest election ever
‘There are two things that are important in politics,’ said Mark Hanna, the American senator, in 1895. ‘The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.’ In 2020, Hanna’s maxim could be updated: the second thing is being an old white guy from New York. The presidential election is 36 weeks
Thursday
Here comes Bloomberg
39 min listen
This week, has Mike Bloomberg blown his presidential hopes with a disastrous TV debate (00:50)? Plus, has the BBC really gone downhill (12:05)? And last, Toby Young reveals all about his first stand up comedy gig (26:30).
Saturday
Is Trump scared of Crazy Bernie Sanders?
Manchester, New Hampshire Democrats almost all agree that Donald Trump is ruining America and must be removed from the White House in November. The trouble is, nobody is sure who can or should do that. Democratic or Democrat-leaning voters talk nervously about the various candidates using their first names, as if trying to pick a
Tuesday
New Hampshire ahead of the primary
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Saturday
After Iowa, Donald Trump looks invincible
Any future history of the decline and fall of the American Republic ought to include a page or two on the Iowa caucuses of 3 February 2020. It’s a meltdown story for the ages. The Democratic party, desperate to undo the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, somehow managed utterly to cock up its first
