Who was the best American president?
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16 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Iain Dale about his new book ‘The Presidents’, which takes a look at every holder of the office from George Washington to Joe Biden.
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Tuesday
Saturday
Has fame eaten America alive?
From our UK edition
22 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Michael Wolff about his latest book ‘Too Famous’, and looks back at how the quest for fame has affected politics over the last two decades.
Sunday
What do last week’s defeats mean for the Democrats?
From our UK edition
20 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Amber Athey and Matt McDonald about the results of the race for the governorship of Virginia and more.
Thursday
Superbad: Joe Biden’s plummeting presidency
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41 min listen
In this week’s episode: Has the Biden Presidency stalled or crashed? In our cover story this week, Freddy Gray assesses the state of the Biden presidency. With steadily lowering approval ratings, a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, and this week’s failure of the Democrats to hold on to the Virginia Governorship, how much trouble is the US’s
Superbad: Joe Biden’s plummeting presidency
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Who can blame President Biden for nodding off at the COP26 summit on Monday? It was an astronomically boring session — opening statement after opening statement, pompous speaker after pompous speaker, insisting that the time for words on climate change is over. Now is the time for… zzzzzzzzzzzz. It’s a miracle the jet-lagged, 78-year-old leader
Saturday
What do we know about Joe Biden’s family dealings?
From our UK edition
24 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Ben Schreckinger, political correspondent at Politico, about his new book, The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power.
Tuesday
Frances Haugen: a very convenient whistleblower
From our UK edition
Facebook wants to move its business model towards the metaverse, that virtual future in which we will all hang out online through headsets and pretend it isn’t weird. The trouble is, we already appear to live in an alternate reality created by communications specialists with highly political agendas. Just look at the clearly PR-orchestrated Online Safety
Thursday
Plan Z: the rise of Éric Zemmour
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34 min listen
In this week’s episode: Who is Eric Zemmour – can he take on President Macron? In our cover story this week, Freddy Gray looks at the rise of Eric Zemmour, the TV presenter who looks set to stir up French politics ahead of next year’s election. Freddy is joined on the podcast by Sophie Pedder,
Are progressive elites destroying the idea of America?
From our UK edition
26 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to the academic Victor Davis Hanson about his latest book The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America.
Plan Z: the rise of Éric Zemmour
From our UK edition
The fact that Éric Zemmour hasn’t yet declared himself a candidate in next year’s French presidential election is a bit of a joke. A Harris poll last week put him on 17 per cent, ahead of all other rivals to President Emmanuel Macron. And he’s holding rallies across France at which adoring fans in ‘Zemmour
Sunday
The never-ending terror of Islamism
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It is no huge surprise Ali Harbi Ali, the man arrested on suspicion of the murder of David Amess, had reportedly been referred to the anti-terrorism ‘Prevent’ programme some years ago. We don’t yet know if he was a ‘lone wolf’ type made psychotic by cannabis use and then radicalised online, as the new generation
Friday
How could an adoption case threaten Native American sovereignty?
From our UK edition
19 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Rebecca Nagle, the host of the This Land podcast, about issues affecting native Americans, including a potentially seismic Supreme Court case on adoption.
Monday
Why did Trump’s CIA want Assange killed?
From our UK edition
26 min listen
On the 15th anniversary of Wikileaks, Freddy Gray speaks to its Editor in Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson about the recent Yahoo article that exposed the fact that the Trump Administration along with the CIA was working on plans to either kidnap or kill Julian Assange while he was still in hiding at the Ecuadorian embassy in
Saturday
The rise and rise of hate hoaxing
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Last week, some racist graffiti was found at Parkway North and Parkway Central schools in the Midwest American state of Missouri. Somebody had scrawled ‘HOPE ALL BLACK PEOPLE DIE’ and the n-word across the bathrooms. A protest erupted. Students ‘boycotted’ classes to show their disgust. But then the sense of outrage suddenly fell flat after
Friday
Is America spending too much money?
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17 min listen
Freddy Gray speaks to the Spectator’s Economics Editor Kate Andrews about President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill and the US debt ceiling.
Wednesday
Joe Biden’s presidency is unravelling
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Joe Biden’s presidency appears to be unravelling at remarkable speed. Back in January, in the days after his inauguration, Biden enjoyed considerable public support. His job-approval score was 58 per cent, with only 35 per cent disapproving. That could be put down to a widespread sense of relief that the sturm and drang of the
Friday
Is Joe Biden OK?
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10 min listen
President Biden has spent the week meeting with foreign leaders including Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Now, the number of people starting to speculate about the state Joe Biden’s health is growing. Freddy Gray sits down with Amber Athey, the Washington Editor for The Spectator to discuss where the cracks are beginning to show and what
Wednesday
No, Biden didn’t just snub Brexit Britain
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For European Union enthusiasts, the ‘trade deal with America’ has joined ‘£350 million pledge on a bus’ as one of the great Brexit lies. A certain amount of gloating has therefore greeted the news that Joe Biden last night ‘downplayed’ the possibility of a US-U.K. Free Trade Agreement. It’s a ‘snub’, Brexiteer hopes are dashed,
Tuesday
Boris is a mini-Biden
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It’s been said far too many times that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Trump himself called the Prime Minister ‘Britain Trump’ – to Donald’s mind, the greatest compliment any man could give. Others use the Trump-Boris analogy to pour scorn. French newspapers have called him ‘mini-Trump’. Or ‘Trump with a
Tuesday
What will inflation mean for Biden and America?
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17 min listen
Freddy Gray sits down with The Spectator‘s economics editor Kate Andrews to discuss the American economy. During the pandemic, inflation grew rapidly – but the latest reports show that it is on its way down again. Is this just a dip before another spike? And is the Met Gala the right venue for championing the
