Frightened people love their leaders
Leader approval ratings are ticking up — similar to those terrifying COVID charts
Freddy Gray
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
Tuesday
Sunday
Let’s applaud mothers — the real key workers
From our UK edition
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: ‘We aren’t very good at talking about death’
The Fox News host on the media, Trump, Biden and the theological implications of the current crisis
Tucker Carlson on coronavirus, Trump, and Biden
From our UK edition
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?
From our UK edition
22 min listen
Are you feeling stimulated?
Perhaps you shouldn’t be
Saturday
Why you should subscribe to The Spectator
A letter from US editor Freddy Gray
Friday
Could coronavirus trigger war between America and China?
From our UK edition
30 min listen
Tuesday
How is America coping with the coronavirus?
From our UK edition
18 min listen
Monday
Saturday
America has a choice between two kinds of crazy
From our UK edition
‘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?
From our UK edition
18 min listen
Wednesday
Can Bernie stop Biden?
From our UK edition
24 min listen
Tuesday
It’s time to take Joe Biden seriously
The nature of his success — never mind the obvious flaws — suggests the Trump campaign should be somewhat alarmed
Monday
Trump toys with hubris
When political campaigns become overconfident, they start to make errors
Saturday
My worrying encounter with Joe Biden
From our UK edition
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?
From our UK edition
18 min listen
Monday
Why has Mayor Pete dropped out?
From our UK edition
22 min listen
Saturday
The best news for Bernie is that his rivals are so weak
From our UK edition
‘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?
From our UK edition
15 min listen
