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2,109 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 134 ratingsInstant political analysis from the Spectator's top team of writers, including Fraser Nelson, Isabel Hardman, Katy Balls, James Heale and many others.
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Episodes
Is the government failing on testing?
March 31, 2020 19:11 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBWith Stephen Bush, the New Statesman's Political Editor, and Katy Balls. Presented by John Connolly.
Is social distancing working?
March 30, 2020 16:26 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup - 29/03/20
March 29, 2020 16:56 - 9 minutes - 8.76 MBIsabel Hardman presents the highlights from Sunday's interview shows, today featuring Michael Gove, Tony Blair and Rebecca Long-Bailey.
Is the West failing to rise to the coronavirus challenge?
March 28, 2020 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBKaty Balls talks to Sophia Gaston, Director of the British Foreign Policy Group, and Cindy Yu about the Western and Chinese responses to the coronavirus.
What Boris's coronavirus diagnosis means for the government
March 27, 2020 13:41 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Cindy Yu.
What is Sunak's stimulus for the self-employed?
March 26, 2020 18:49 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBWith Kate Andrews and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls. Find this week's The Edition podcast with William Hague here.
Is an immunity test around the corner?
March 25, 2020 18:41 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBWith Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
Who's to blame for the tube overcrowding?
March 24, 2020 20:10 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBWith Stephen Bush, Political Editor of the New Statesman, and Katy Balls. Presented by John Connolly.
Britain enters lockdown
March 23, 2020 21:40 - 11 minutes - 11 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Is the government's coronavirus approach confused?
March 23, 2020 14:49 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBWith Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup - 22/03/20
March 22, 2020 18:52 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MBIsabel Hardman hosts the highlights from Sunday's interview programmes, with Robert Jenrick and Jeremy Corbyn.
What does coronavirus mean for Britain's prisons?
March 21, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBWith Professor Ian Acheson, former prison officer and senior advisor at the Counter Extremism Project, and Chris Atkins, filmmaker and author of A Bit of a Stretch, a memoir detailing his incarceration in HMP Wandsworth. To hear more from Chris about his prison experience, he talked to Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts on their Table Talk podcast. Presented by Katy Balls.
Did the government just nationalise wages?
March 20, 2020 18:51 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBWith Kate Andrews and Fraser Nelson. Presented by Katy Balls.
Can this virus really be beaten within 12 weeks?
March 19, 2020 19:08 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBWith Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
The unanswerable question on coronavirus
March 18, 2020 19:08 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by John Connolly.
The Sunak stimulus
March 17, 2020 19:10 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBWith Kate Andrews and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
Is the country ready for life under coronavirus?
March 16, 2020 19:27 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Can the government keep the public's trust?
March 16, 2020 12:53 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBWith Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup - 15/03/20
March 15, 2020 19:19 - 9 minutes - 8.8 MBIsabel Hardman hosts the highlights from today's political shows, featuring Matt Hancock, Jonathan Ashworth, Lisa Nandy and Italian Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta.
Mervyn King on Radical Uncertainty
March 14, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBFraser Nelson talks to Mervyn King about the limits of economics, where the number crunching in 2016 went wrong, and the sort of Brexit we should have.
Will coronavirus cause a Brexit delay?
March 13, 2020 13:42 - 10 minutes - 9.72 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Cindy Yu.
The political risk of Boris's coronavirus strategy
March 12, 2020 18:32 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by John Connolly.
Podcast LIVE: Budget Special
March 12, 2020 11:31 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBWhat does Rishi Sunak’s first Budget tell us about the future of this government – and the direction of conservatism? Fraser, James, and Katy were joined by Rachel Wolf, co-author of the 2019 Conservative manifesto, to give their reactions and analysis of the Budget.
Will Rishi Sunak's Budget splurge pay off?
March 11, 2020 15:53 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBWith Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
How Boris's Brexit team plan to avoid repeating May's mistake
March 10, 2020 13:29 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Is No 10 ready for the financial hit of coronavirus?
March 09, 2020 12:29 - 9 minutes - 8.78 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by John Connolly.
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup - 08/03/20
March 08, 2020 17:48 - 9 minutes - 8.44 MBIsabel Hardman presents the highlights from Sunday's political interviews, with clips from Rishi Sunak, Rosie Duffield and Layla Moran.
What would Keir Starmer's first 100 days look like?
March 07, 2020 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBWith Ailbhe Rea, Political Correspondent at the New Statesman, and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Will this be a coronavirus Budget?
March 06, 2020 12:41 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBWith Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
Why won't Keir Starmer reveal his donors?
March 05, 2020 18:08 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls. Presented by John Connolly.
Why Boris Johnson still backs Priti Patel
March 04, 2020 14:31 - 10 minutes - 9.61 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.
What is the government's coronavirus battle plan?
March 03, 2020 12:12 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Has Priti Patel lost control of the Home Office?
March 02, 2020 13:22 - 9 minutes - 8.35 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup - 01/03/20
March 01, 2020 16:33 - 9 minutes - 8.27 MBIsabel Hardman presents the highlights from the Sunday shows, featuring John McDonnell, Matt Hancock, Amélie de Montchalin and Richard Burgon.
How damaging is Philip Rutnam's resignation?
February 29, 2020 11:57 - 14 minutes - 13.9 MBWith Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Is the Heathrow ruling a failure of politics?
February 29, 2020 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBWith Tim Shipman, Political Editor of the Sunday Times, and Fraser Nelson. Presented by Katy Balls.
Can the government contain a coronavirus outbreak?
February 28, 2020 12:54 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by John Connolly.
Is the UK really prepared to walk away with no deal?
February 27, 2020 13:56 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
Sajid Javid's parting shot
February 26, 2020 14:38 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBWith Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Presented by Cindy Yu.
What's on the EU's Brexit wishlist?
February 25, 2020 15:58 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by John Connolly.
Is No 10 going to war against the civil service?
February 24, 2020 12:33 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBWith Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup - 23/02/20
February 23, 2020 17:47 - 9 minutes - 9.12 MBIsabel Hardman hosts the roundup of Sunday's political shows, with highlights from David Davis, Nicola Sturgeon, George Eustice and Diane Abbott.
Can feminism be capitalist?
February 22, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutes - 9.72 MBKate Andrews speaks to economist Deirdre McCloskey about Britain's comparative advantage, liberalism's contribution to women's rights, and why equality of permission is more important than equality of opportunity.
What will Rishi Sunak's Budget look like?
February 21, 2020 14:49 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Should Labour form an electoral pact with the Lib Dems?
February 20, 2020 19:26 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBWith Katy Balls and James Mills. Presented by John Connolly.
Is the government's points system really taking back control?
February 19, 2020 13:09 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBWith Kate Andrews and James Forsyth. Presented by Katy Balls.
Is the UK-EU Brexit gap unbridgeable?
February 18, 2020 12:17 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBWith Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Cindy Yu.
Are we heading for another Brexit stand off?
February 17, 2020 13:00 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls. Presented by John Connolly.
Katy Balls' Sunday Interviews Roundup - 16/02/20
February 16, 2020 18:44 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBKaty Balls presents the highlights from this week's Sunday roundup. On the podcast today are clips from Grant Shapps, Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Richard Burgon.
Who are Boris's new Cabinet ministers?
February 15, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBWith James Forsyth and Katy Balls. Presented by Cindy Yu.