Is America hopelessly divided?
From our UK edition
37 min listen
Freddy Gray speaks to journalist and author George Packer about the thesis of his latest book Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal.
Freddy Gray
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
Monday
Monday
Is vaccine encouragement becoming vaccine coercion?
From our UK edition
27 min listen
From jabs for joints, to peer pressure in schools, to free lap dances, it seems the powers that be are getting more and more aggressive in their mission of getting everyone jabbed as quickly as possible. To discuss this unprecedented vaccination campaign Freddy Gray talks to author of A State of Fear: How the UK
Friday
What does Putin think of Joe Biden?
From our UK edition
17 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to the Spectator’s Russia correspondent Owen Matthews about relations between the two presidents.
Monday
The president of platitudes
Biden’s speeches aren’t disastrous — just listless and flat
Thursday
Boris, Biden and the orange elephant in the room
From our UK edition
Donald who? As Boris Johnson meets Joe Biden in Cornwall this week, the Prime Minister will hope that the President doesn’t dwell on his efforts to woo the last occupant of the Oval Office. Boris’s dalliance with Donald Trump is a bit like his affair with Jennifer Arcuri — an embarrassing fling with a rotund,
Tuesday
Does Bidenomics make sense?
From our UK edition
35 min listen
With Professor Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite.
Wednesday
Will we ever know where Covid came from?
From our UK edition
34 min listen
What was once dismissed by the mainstream media as a right wing conspiracy theory, seems to have made its transition into credible possibility. It now seems very plausible that Covid came from a Chinese lab. But will we ever know for sure? And even if we did, what would we do about it? Freddy Gray
Saturday
Is the sexual counterrevolution coming?
From our UK edition
40 min listen
Freddy Gray discusses the revolt against sexual liberalism with Mary Harrington, Louise Perry and Default Friend.
Friday
Out now: the June edition of The Spectator World
Featuring Bridget Phetasy, Cosmo Landesman, Dominic Green, Mary Harrington, Zoe Strimpel and more
Thursday
TikTok intifada: what’s the role of new media in old conflicts?
From our UK edition
34 min listen
In this week’s podcast, we talk to James Ball, author of this week’s cover story on the ‘TikTok Intifada’ about the themes he uncovers in his analysis of the impact of social media on the conflict in the Middle East. The conversation with James continues with our next guest, Professor Gabriel Weinmann of Haifa University
Friday
Can Democrats criticise Israel?
From our UK edition
12 min listen
Apart from former nominee-candidate Andrew Yang, the Democratic Party has remained relatively quiet about the latest escalations in Israel and Gaza. Why won’t the Party comment? Freddy Gray talks to Dominic Green.
Friday
Why is Liz Cheney still a Republican?
From our UK edition
19 min listen
They saved her once, but it seems that the Congressional Republicans patience with Representative Liz Cheney has run out. The founder of the GOP said ‘a house divided cannot stand’, but maybe it’s not a divided as the media makes it out. Freddy Gray speaks to Grace Curley, host of The Grace Curley Show.
Friday
What’s wrong with American media?
From our UK edition
20 min listen
What’s wrong with American media? The Sunday Times‘s Josh Glancy, formerly Washington correspondent at the newspaper, joins Freddy Gray to discuss the how the last five years have changed the institution.
Tuesday
How COVID-19 killed Hollywood
The pandemic has sped up the decline of glitzy award ceremonies
Monday
Out now: The Spectator’s May 2021 edition
Featuring Daniel McCarthy, Ian Williams, Lionel Shriver, Matt Purple and many more
Friday
Is Biden really going to squeeze the rich?
From our UK edition
17 min listen
The Biden administration has announced that it will hike the highest rate of income tax and almost double capital gains tax to pay for its enormous spending plans. But will they stop there, or are more taxes on the less well off coming down the line? Freddy Gray speaks to Kate Andrews.
Will Joe Biden really squeeze the rich?
‘Rebalancing the American economy’ is not as easy as it sounds
Thursday
Biden’s Rodeo: How were his first 100 days?
From our UK edition
30 min listen
Joe Biden is approaching his first 100 days in office. How has he fared, and has he delivered on his promise to bring about a return to normalcy? (1:15) Plus, the proposed European Super League wasn’t super after all. The six English teams invited to join the league pulled out earlier this week, and the
Biden’s rodeo: the President’s first 100 days have been a wild ride
From our UK edition
Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, has never been able to keep his mouth shut. Throughout his absurdly long career in politics, he has always said too much, made stuff up, gone too far. His friends and fans just shrug it off. ‘That’s our Joe.’ The trouble is, Biden is now America’s
Friday
What’s happening in Minneapolis?
From our UK edition
26 min listen
Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck, is currently on trial in Minneapolis. What does the evidence say, will the city stay peaceful when the verdict is delivered, do violent viral videos do more harm than good, and should the country’s political leaders call for order? Freddy Gray speaks to Scott
