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• Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Angus Colwell, Lisa Haseldine & Chas Newkey-Burden

  October 6, 2026 · 19 min

  On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: James Heale reflects on Labour party conference; Angus Colwell goes on the hunt for Britain’s wokest bar; Lisa Haseldine reveals what she has been stockpiling; and Chas Newkey-Burden provides his notes on…

• Coffee House Shots LIVE: Antisemitism, Man City & abolishing the Triple Lock

  October 5, 2026 · 34 min

  James Heale, Tim Shipman and Tali Fraser record live from Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. As we pass the two year mark of Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Tory Party, the panel discuss whether she has done enough to win…

• Quite right!: Jeffrey Archer on his extraordinary life – and his biggest regrets

  October 5, 2026 · 47 min

  Michael Gove is joined by novelist and former Conservative Party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer to discuss his final novel, Adam and Eve, and a life spent close to the centre of British politics. Jeffrey explains how the book was inspired…

• Coffee House Shots: can Kemi win the battle for the right?

  October 4, 2026 · 20 min

  James Heale is joined by Tim Shipman and Liam Halligan, Telegraph columnist and the new director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), to look ahead to Conservative party conference, which kicks off today. Kemi Badenoch’s latest attempt…

• Reality Check LIVE: TUC boss Paul Nowak on taxpayers subsidising 'crappy jobs'

  October 3, 2026 · 24 min

  Michael Simmons is joined live at Labour conference by TUC general secretary Paul Nowak to discuss the state of Britain’s labour market. Are higher wages and stronger employment rights making it harder to hire, or are taxpayers subsidising…

• The Edition: how Badenoch plans to follow Burnham – with Poppy Coburn

  October 2, 2026 · 40 min

  For this week’s Edition, Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectator’s political editor Tim Shipman, restaurant critic Angus Colwell and Telegraph associate editor Poppy Coburn. This week: does the country want Kemi Badenoch’s tough love?…

• The Book Club: Steven Pinker

  September 30, 2026 · 37 min

  In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… Pinker explores the powerful idea of ‘common knowledge’ - not simply what we…

• Quite right!: Meet the Labour MP taking on his own party | Jonathan Hinder

  September 30, 2026 · 42 min

  Michael Gove is joined by Jonathan Hinder, MP for Pendle and Clitheroe, one of the leading voices of Blue Labour, to discuss class, borders and the common good in a conversation recorded live at Labour conference. Jonathan, a former police…