Please Twitter, stop playing ‘Guess the Killer’s Race’
It shows no empathy, scant concern at best for the victims
Freddy Gray
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
Friday
Thursday
Did Matt Gaetz do nothing wrong?
From our UK edition
37 min listen
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that congressman Matt Gaetz is being investigated over whether he had sex with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. Freddy Gray speaks to Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump and a friend of Gaetz, about the story.
Monday
The alarming rise of Big Dope
From our UK edition
18 min listen
Young people are now more likely to consume marijuana than smoke tobacco. Is weed just a benign stimulant, or is Big Dope pushing a drug that could lead to a schizophrenia epidemic? Freddy Gray speaks to Madeleine Kearns, staff writer at National Review and the author of the cover piece in the new US edition
Wednesday
What’s driving the NFT digital art boom?
From our UK edition
20 min listen
A piece of digital art by the illustrator Beeple has sold for $69 million. Is it worth the cash, or just a picture on a screen? Freddy Gray talks to Nima Sagharchi, director of Middle Eastern, Islamic and South Asian art at Bonhams auctioneers.
Monday
What’s behind the violence against Asian-Americans?
From our UK edition
22 min listen
In the wake of the Atlanta shootings, Freddy Gray talks to Andy Ngo, journalist and author of Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy about Ngo’s experiences of racism as an Asian-American and what’s behind the rise in violence against the group.
Thursday
Is Biden tougher on China than Trump?
From our UK edition
31 min listen
With historian Michael Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Tuesday
No, Meghan Markle isn’t going to be president
The more people see her, the less they like
Hot off the press — what’s in the April issue
Our April edition concerns the alarming power of the cannabis industry
Friday
What do Americans really think about the royal family?
From our UK edition
19 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to historian Patrick Allitt, the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University, about how much the Harry and Meghan interview has really cut through to the American public.
Thursday
Battle royal: Harry and Meghan’s brand of revenge
From our UK edition
36 min listen
Is it fair to blame Meghan for the Royal Family’s problems? (00:55) Why is China censoring a book of Dante’s poetry? (12:40) Would you go to moon? (24:50) With The Spectator‘s US editor Freddy Gray; The Spectator’s restaurant critic Tanya Gold; author Ian Thomson; Kerry Brown, professor of Chinese Studies at King’s College London; The
Battle royal: Harry and Meghan’s modern brand of revenge
From our UK edition
Remember the Heads Together campaign? It was back in 2017. Prince William, his wife Kate and his brother Prince Harry, who’d recently begun dating a conspicuously woke actress called Meghan Markle, launched a charitable endeavour to raise awareness about mental health. The princes gave interviews in which they ‘opened up’ about their struggles. Such public
Thursday
Is HR 1 an existential threat to American democracy?
From our UK edition
12 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to National Review and Fox columnist John Fund about the Democrat HR 1 bill on voting practices. Will it pass, and could it be an existential threat to American democracy?
Monday
He’s back: what Trump said at CPAC
From our UK edition
16 min listen
In the first public appearance since Biden’s inauguration, Donald Trump has spoken to CPAC, the annual conservative conference. Freddy Gray reviews his speech with Kate Andrews.
Sunday
Is CPAC now TPAC?
From our UK edition
14 min listen
Freddy Gray, Amber Athey and Matt McDonald discuss 2021’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, ahead of Donald Trump’s appearance tomorrow.
Thursday
Joe Biden is a China patsy
But the Russiagate media see no evil in the big guy
Sunday
Eight handy phrases for bluffing your way through the crypto-currency boom
‘It’s no coincidence this is happening in the middle of a pandemic’
Friday
The demise of the Lincoln Project
From our UK edition
25 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Republican political consultant Luke Thompson about the demise of the Lincoln Project, the political action committee set up to oppose Donald Trump’s re-election.
Wednesday
The Trump Show enters its final season
From our UK edition
There is no point denying it — The Trump Show, the craziest comedy the God of TV has ever produced, has been fizzling out. Yes, the ‘Storming of the Capitol’ episode was a dramatic denouement. The absurd sight of ridiculously dressed QAnoners stumbling into an accidental attempt at a government coup was shockingly hilarious. But the
Friday
Is Marjorie Taylor Greene the future of the Republican party?
From our UK edition
13 min listen
The House of Representatives has removed Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from two committees for promoting incendiary conspiracy theories about paedophile rings and Jewish-controlled space lasers. Does she represent the future of the GOP, and are both parties losing their grip on reality? Freddy Gray speaks to Dominic Green, the Spectator‘s deputy US editor.
Friday
Has wallstreetbets changed the stock market forever?
From our UK edition
27 min listen
Freddy Gray talks to Joe Weisenthal, co-host of the Odd Lots podcast and presenter of What’d You Miss on Bloomberg TV, about the GameStop short squeeze. Where did wallstreetbets start, have they revolutionised the stock market, and do they know what they’re doing?
