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Quite right!: Rory Stewart interview | Part one

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Spectator Out Loud: Tali Fraser, John Power, Sophia Money-Coutts & Angus Colwell

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Holy Smoke: Catholic Burnham barred – should the law change?

4

The Edition: Will Andy drill deep for oil & gas – and is Bayeux in Britain as good as it gets?

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Reality Check: Arthur Laffer vs Aaron Bastani | LIVE

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The Book Club: Hannah Richell

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Quite right!: Danny Kruger interview | LIVE at Reform Conference

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Coffee House Shots: Malcolm Rifkind on Farage, Kemi and Burnham's gift to the Tories

9

Spectator Out Loud: Noa Hoffman, Robert Hardman, Patrick Galbraith, & Matthew Reisz

10

Quite right!: Francis Fukuyama interview

11

The Edition: has Reform UK lost its magic? | with Quentin Letts

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The Book Club: James Marriott

13

Quite right!: Why the Tories are preparing for an early election

14

Americano: why did the CIA director fly to Moscow?

15

Spectator Out Loud: Simon Sebag Montefiore, Vanessa Feltz, Sophia Money-Coutts & Angus Colwell

16

Holy Smoke: are you having a 'nun girl summer'?

17

Coffee House Shots: why I quit government | Al Carns

18

The Edition: how the blob broke teaching | with Francis Foster

19

Reality Check: the ADHD debate we’re not allowed to have

20

The Book Club: Simon Sebag Montefiore – The Cauldron

21

Americano: Just how bad are polls for the Republicans?

22

Spectator Out Loud: Madeline Grant, Harry Mount, Freddie Heffer & Toby Young

23

Holy Smoke: why Quentin Letts fears for the parish church

24

Coffee House Shots: Andy's report card | with Baroness Debbonaire

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The Edition: has the West lost the will to defend itself? | with Maureen Lipman

26

Reality check: the truth about Britain’s water crisis – and what it means for net zero

27

Coffee House Shots: Reform suspends Tim Montgomerie after Spectator interview

28

Holy Smoke: Wandering bishops, rival popes & schismatic churches

29

Reality Check: Britain's AI problem isn't data centres – it's electricity

30

Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman, Arabella Byrne, Alex Burghart & Lloyd Evans

31

Coffee House Shots: has Zack Polanski proven more continuity than change?

32

The Edition: ‘It’s a cesspool!’ — What’s going wrong in Britain’s universities?

33

Americano: is America ready for the new realities of war?

34

Quite right!: Simon Sebag Montefiore explains the making of the modern Middle East

35

Coffee House Shots: Clacton by-election lookahead

36

Holy Smoke: how Project Spire will hurt England's parishes

37

Rod Out Loud: Toby Young, Tim Luckhurst, Lara Prendergast, Mary Wakefield & Freddy Gray

38

Reality Check: why Labour doesn’t understand business

39

The Edition: the real Rod Liddle – with Michael Gove, Toby Young & Freddy Gray

40

Americano: is China winning the AI race now?

41

Spectator Out Loud: Lara Brown, Patrick Kidd, Tali Fraser & Ella Veakins

42

Reality Check: could women be the solution to Britain's prison problem?

43

Americano: How will Team Burnham deal with Team Trump?

44

Coffee House Shots: Britain's First Catholic PM? — with Patrick Maguire

45

The Edition: Rory Sutherland on private schools, early election & death doulas

46

Reality Check: how to reform social care – with David Goodhart

47

Americano: Is the radical left taking over the Democratic Party?

48

Quite right!: Katharine Birbalsingh interview

49

Reality Check: Britain's homelessness & why Burnham won't fix it

50

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Iona Bain, Tali Fraser & James Phillips

51

Americano: how Steve Hilton plans to win California

52

Coffee House Shots: Nick Clegg's coalition regrets

53

The Edition: Burnham’s chaotic takeover

54

The Book Club: 160 years of Beatrix Potter

55

Quite right!: inside Burnham’s brutal Labour purge

56

Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove, Count Binface, Michael Simmons & Graeme Thomson

57

Coffee House: Burnham becomes Prime Minister

58

Reality Check: Fact checking Rupert Lowe on Joe Rogan

59

Americano: what did Lindsey Graham want?

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Coffee House Shots: why MPs must be whipped | Simon Hart

61

The Edition: can Burnham remake Britain – and can Wales decolonise it?

62

The Book Club: Rome's Age of Revolutions

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Quite right!: Burnham is wrong to ditch Palantir | Louis Mosley

64

Americano: How the US views Britain's right-wing circus

65

Spectator Out Loud: Tali Fraser, Damian Thompson, Matthew Wilson & Christa d’Souza

66

Holy Smoke: how religion shapes football

67

Coffee House Shots: how we plan to beat Reform | Conservative chairman

68

The Edition: has Farage lost control?

69

Americano: the truth about Gavin Newsom

70

Quite right!: did Cummings predict Farage’s downfall?

71

Reality Check: Burnham's bid to bridge the North-South divide

72

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Gavin Mortimer, James Delingpole, Aidan Hartley & Angus Colwell

73

Holy Smoke: Was America meant to be a Christian nation?

74

Coffee House Shots: Anthony Scaramucci on Trump, Corruption & America at 250

75

The Edition: Labour's 'total failure' on defence – and why Boris shouldn't come back

76

The Book Club: A History of the United States in 15 Speeches

77

Coffee House Shots: Summer Party Secrets

78

Quite right!: Burnham thinks devolution can fix Britain – is he right?

79

Americano: Why is America’s radical left winning?

80

Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Michael Simmons, Gus Carter & Arabella Byrne

81

Americano: has America really lost to Iran?

82

Coffee House Shots: is Britain ungovernable?

83

The Edition: Burnham's coronation – but does he have a plan for power?

84

The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli

85

Quite right!: Starmer’s fall – and the rise of King Burnham

86

Americano: will AI extinguish humanity? With Nate Soares

87

Inside the £2 billion black market threatening Britain’s high streets

88

Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Matt Ridley, Peter Parker & Lloyd Evans

89

Holy Smoke: are Mormons Christian?

90

Coffee House Shots: the Makerfield by-election, as it happened

91

The Edition: Was Brexit worth it – and can Burnham save Britain?

92

The Book Club: How Our Children Live Now

93

Quite right!: was Enoch Powell right about Britain?

94

Reality Check: is Starmer right to ban social media for children?

95

Americano: can Trump forge a lasting peace with Iran?

96

Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman – with Kemi Badenoch, Justin Marozzi, Christopher Howse & Lara Prendergast

97

Americano: why is Cenk Uygur banned from Britain, really?

98

The Edition: 'We're only months away from the first political assassination by drone'

99

The Book Club: George Forster and the Search for Humanity

100

Quite right!: why Starmer won’t go quietly

101

Americano: the 2026 midterms, immigration & the Democrats

102

Spectator Out Loud: Lisa Haseldine, Michael Simmons, Patrick Smith & Toby Young – with Nigel Farage

103

Holy Smoke: Mexico, the Catholic Church & the rise of the cartel cults

104

Reality Check: can you trust your spouse with your finances?

105

Coffee House Shots: Nigel Farage on the battle for Makerfield

106

The Edition: Elizabeth Day on the 'beautiful & ironic symmetry' of Reform vs Restore

107

The Book Club: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

108

Quite right!: Henry Nowak & Britain’s two-tier policing crisis

109

Reality Check: why price caps are pointless

110

Americano: who is Usha Vance?

111

Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson, James Delingpole, Daisy Dunn & Margaret Mitchell

112

Coffee House Shots: who has the clearest vision for Labour? | with Rachel Wolf

113

The Edition: The Pope's AI warning – and how Restore split the right, again

114

Holy Smoke: Michael Gove on why the Pope's AI intervention shames our politicians

115

The Book Club: Siri Hustvedt

116

Quite Right: Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP

117

Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Flora Watkins & Nicholas Farrell

118

Americano: what Thomas Massie's lost means for the future of the Right

119

Coffee House Shots: is Kemi a winner? | with Lee Cain

120

The Edition: Why Labour’s fate will be decided in the Strait of Hormuz

121

The Book Club: Alexander the Great's accidental empire

122

Quite right!: Maurice Glasman's manifesto for 'proper' Labour | Part one

123

Holy Smoke: Pope Leo one year on – a promising start?

124

Americano: what have Britons got against America?

125

The Book Club: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies

126

Coffee House Shots: Steve Baker on how to oust a Prime Minister

127

The Edition: Labour’s civil war is distracting from the real crisis

128

Coffee House Shots: inside Labour's leadership crisis

129

Quite right!: Starmer’s last stand

130

Americano: what's going on with the Kennedy Center?

131

Spectator Out Loud: Lisa Haseldine, Roya Nikkah & Lionel Shriver

132

Quite right!: how to stage a leadership coup

133

Coffee House Shots: how 'the progressives' killed Labour – Maurice Glasman

134

The Edition: will Labour learn the wrong lessons from the locals?

135

The Book Club: The Poems of Sylvia Plath

136

Quite right!: how antisemitism became a 'national emergency'

137

LIVE: Conservatives vs Reform debate

138

Spectator Out Loud: Martin Vander Weyer, Freddy Gray & Arabella Byrne

139

Reality check: why Polanski is wrong about drug legalisation

140

Americano: how the Declaration of Independence made America

141

The Edition: Britain’s fraying social contract – and what comes after Starmer?

142

The Book Club: How to Kill a Language

143

Quite right!: Katie Lam interview

144

Coffee House Shots: Morgan McSweeney faces the music

145

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Peter James, Zoe Strimpel and Graeme Thomson

146

Holy Smoke: is Pope Benedict’s Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans finally going to realise its potential?

147

Coffee House Shots: is this the end of Labour’s Wales?

148

The Edition: ‘Keir Starmer has become Boris Johnson!’

149

The Book Club: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

150

Quite right!: Starmer didn’t even want Mandelson – so why appoint him?

151

Americano: Iran vs USA – how this could end

152

Spectator Out Loud: Robert Hardman, Melissa Kite, Julian Glover & Sarah Carlson

153

Americano: why has Trump picked a fight with the Pope?

154

Reality Check: how the leasehold mafia screwed a generation of homeowners

155

The Edition: Rowan Williams on America's 'demonic' political climate

156

The Book Club: The Once and Future Riot

157

Quite right!: ‘He is evil’ – why the Southport killer wasn’t stopped

158

Americano: 'The Case for American Power'

159

Book Club: Mason Currey

160

Americano: what's up with Melania Trump?

161

Spectator Out Loud: Catherine Ostler, Paul Wood, John Power & David Whitehouse

162

The Edition: is Britain losing its sense of fairness?

163

Holy Smoke: the truth about the quiet revival – with grounds for optimism

164

Coffee House Shots: why is Starmer so unpopular? with Lewis Goodall

165

Americano: what can Artemis II tell us about the wonders of the moon?

166

Easter Out Loud: Lisa Haseldine, Matthew Parris, Damian Thompson, Peter Pomerantsev, Chas Newkey-Burden & Catriona Olding

167

Holy Smoke: how would you sell Christianity? with Rory Sutherland

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LIVE: Should we defund or defend the BBC? | Michael Gove & Jon Sopel v Charles Moore & Allison Pearson

169

Easter Edition: is politics becoming more religious? With Tom Holland & Jonathan Sumption

170

Book Club: Yann Martel

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Quite right! | Anas Sarwar: why I said Starmer should go

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Americano: podcast wars, Cuba & Corbyn – with Steven Crowder

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Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman, Ben Clerkin, Maxwell Marlow & Hermione Eyre

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Holy Smoke: Prince William resets faith – as Sarah Mullally enthroned

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LIVE: is it time for a Tory-Reform pact?

176

The Edition: does British politics have a problem with the 'omnicause'?

177

The Book Club: inside the world of competitive Scrabble

178

Quite right!: the political Islam debate

179

Holy Smoke: Iran, Shia Islam & its tradition of martyrdom

180

Spectator Out Loud: Ruaridh Nicoll, Angus Colwell, Mary Wakefield, Philip Hensher & Nicholas Farrell

181

Americano: can anyone beat a madman President?

182

Coffee House Shots: Britain’s decline – and how to reverse it | with John Bew

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The Edition: does Nigel Farage really want to be Prime Minister?

184

The Book Club: Howard Jacobson

185

Quite right!: what’s the point of Keir Starmer?

186

Holy Smoke: who is Sarah Mullally?

187

Coffee House Shots: is the government right to restrict jury trials?

188

Spectator Out Loud: Damian Thompson, Francis Pike, Ysenda Maxtone-Graham & Lloyd Evans

189

Coffee House Shots: Keir Starmer's total lack of curiosity

190

The Edition: America's Iran gamble – why the Royals could be Britain's Trump card

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The Book Club: Lionel Shriver

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Quite right!: is Britain still a great power?

193

Reality Check: Oil crisis – the worst we've ever seen?

194

Americano: why Iran marks the end of neoconservatism

195

Coffee House Shots: why we left the Foreign Office | Ben Judah & Ameer Kotecha

196

Book Club: Paris in the Shadow of War

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The Edition: Why Trump's ultimate target in this war is China – with Maurice Glasman

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Americano: what role will Turkey play in the Iran conflict?

199

Quite right!: Trump's plan in Iran explained

200

Coffee House Shots: Spring statement – everything you need to know

201

Americano: will Iran descend into civil war?

202

Spectator Out Loud: Angus Colwell, Paul Wood, Andrew Rule & Jonathan Meades

203

LIVE: The Spectator’s Alternative Covid Inquiry

204

Americano: Trump strikes Iran

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Quite right!: Munira Mirza | part two

206

The Edition: is Labour too close to the City – with Lionel Shriver & Robert Hardman

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Book Club: Francis Spufford

208

Quite right!: Munira Mirza | part one

209

Holy Smoke: how Russia is waging Holy War in Ukraine

210

Coffee House Shots: why by-elections matter

211

Reality Check: the £100 billion problem nobody talks about

212

The Book Club: A Philosophy of Addiction

213

The Edition: Britain is not ready for war – and Labour isn’t doing enough

214

Coffee House Shots: how prepared is Britain for war?

215

Quite right!: who replaces Nigel Farage?

216

Holy Smoke: is there any truth in the Christian revival?

217

Americano: is Trump dismantling Venezuela's socialist state?

218

Spectator Out Loud: Tina Brown, Travis Aaroe, Genevieve Gaunt & Deborah Ross

219

Coffee House Shots: why Gordon Brown has never been so relevant

220

The Edition: Labour turns on Starmer – inside the collapse, with Guto Harri, Tim Shipman & Toby Young

221

Book Club: Fast Food Nation – revisited

222

Quite right!: 'Keir Starmer is the problem'

223

Americano: what will happen in the mid terms?

224

Coffee House Shots: McSweeney resigns – is Starmer next?

225

Spectator Out Loud: Piers Morgan, Melanie McDonagh, Matt Ridley & Rachel Johnson

226

Holy Smoke: has AI created its own religion?

227

Coffee House Shots: Jonathan Hinder on Starmer, Mandelson & a 'bad' local elections

228

The Edition: AI will bring down Keir Starmer – if Peter Mandelson doesn’t first

229

The Book Club: The Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul

230

Quite right!: the Peter Mandelson problem just got worse

231

Americano: who is the real Melania Trump?

232

Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas, Mary Killen, Owen Matthews & Patrick Kidd

233

Reality Check: Andy Burnham, abolishing the OBR & why Rishi was right

234

Coffee House Shots: what should the UK's relationship with China be?

235

The Edition: Britain’s guilty men, Labour’s reset & do people care about ICE more than Iran?

236

Coffee House Shots: is centrism dead? | with David Gauke

237

Quite right!: is it nearly over for Keir Starmer?

238

Spectator Out Loud: Gavin Mortimer, John Campbell, Mark Piesing & Daisy Dunn

239

LIVE: Reasons to be optimistic | with Michael Gove, Tim Stanley, Steve Baker & David Goodhart

240

Holy Smoke: the historic value of English churches

241

Coffee House Shots: does British politics reward traitors or faithfuls?

242

The Edition: Trump's Arctic madness, political treachery & banning social media

243

Reality Check: SNP budget – the smallest tax cut in history

244

Quite right!: Trump, Greenland and the special relationship 'myth'

245

Spectator Out Loud: Mickey Down, Charlie Gammell, Sean Thomas & Douglas Murray

246

Reality Check: who's to blame for Britain's water crisis?

247

Holy Smoke: why theocracies survive – with Peter Frankopan

248

Coffee House Shots: what's the point of the Lib Dems?

249

The Edition: Iran’s useful idiots, Gordon Brown’s second term & the Right’s race obsession

250

The Book Club: How To Play A Game Without Rules

251

Quite right!: why Nadhim Zahawi (and Reform) are making a mistake

252

Americano: does America really need Venezuela's oil?

253

Spectator Out Loud: Justin Marozzi, Lisa Haseldine, William Atkinson & Toby Young

254

Americano: is Trump going for Iran next?

255

Coffee House Shots: mums for Reform?

256

The Edition: Stormy seas, Trump’s revolution & Gen Z’s sex recession

257

Americano: which Latin American narco-state will Trump topple next?

258

Quite right!: what Britain can learn from America's 'audacity' in Venezuela

259

Coffee House Shots: is 2026 Kemi's year?

260

Spectator Out Loud: Cosmo Landesman, Alex Diggins, Lucy Dunn & Richard Bratby

261

Americano: what is the Donroe Doctrine's plan for Venezuela?

262

Coffee House Shots: John Curtice – what to expect in 2026

263

The Edition: 'Boring twenties', population decline & happy new year

264

Quite right!: Dominic Cummings – part two

265

The Book Club: Books of the Year 2025

266

Quite right!: Dominic Cummings interview – part one out now

267

Coffee House Shots Live: Year in Review 2025

268

Reality Check: 2025 – tears, tariffs & taxes

269

From Porn Britannia to Political Chaos: The Spectator’s Year in Review

270

Spectator Out Loud: Slipshod – by Sarah Perry

271

Holy Smoke: how transformative has 2025 been for Christianity?

272

Coffee House Shots: Stephen Flynn on Reform, Sturgeon & a second referendum

273

Table Talk: Michael Gove

274

Christmas Out Loud II: Dominic Sandbrook, Philip Hensher, Steve Morris, Christopher Howse, Michael Hann & Mary Killen

275

Coffee House Shots: who won 2025? with Quentin Letts

276

Americano: why did Susie Wiles talk to Vanity Fair?

277

Speaker series: Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Storm

278

Quite right!: where does Islamism come from?

279

Holy Smoke: why religious societies succeed – with Rory Sutherland

280

Americano: how is Trump's counter revolution going?

281

Christmas Out Loud I: James Heale, Gyles Brandreth, Avi Loeb, Melanie McDonagh, Mary Wakefield, Richard Bratby & Rupert Hawksley

282

Coffee House Shots: will Scotland switch course in 2026? with Gordon McKee

283

The Christmas Edition: From The Queen to Bonnie Blue

284

The Book Club: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger

285

Post-Budget briefing: what will it mean for your finances?

286

Table Talk: Tom Gilbey

287

Americano: will anyone miss the Boomers?

288

Spectator Out Loud: what's the greatest artwork of the century so far?

289

Coffee House Shots: who really runs No.10?

290

The Edition: Benefits Britain, mental health & what’s the greatest artwork of the 21st Century?

291

The Book Club: A Brief History of the Aphorism

292

Quite right!: should Rachel Reeves go?

293

Americano: why is the US obsessed with British 'decline'?

294

Nicotine pouches: solution or smokescreen?

295

Holy Smoke: Trump highlights the persecution of Christians in Nigeria

296

Coffee House Shots: Budget booze from Disraeli to Reeves

297

The Edition: defending marriage, broken Budgets & the 'original sin’ of industrialisation

298

The Book Club: The Decadence

299

Quite right!: the 'wickedness' of Labour's gender war

300

Spectator Out Loud: William Atkinson, Andreas Roth, Philip Womack, Mary Wakefield & Muriel Zagha

301

Quite right!: Is it time to abolish the Treasury? – Q&A

302

Holy Smoke: is the Anglican Communion dead?

303

Coffee House Shots: why Britain needs more Yimbys

304

The Edition: Labour's toxic budget, Zelensky in trouble & Hitler's genitalia

305

Book Club: Ben Myers on Kinski

306

Quite right!: Labour’s migration crackdown & why the Rwanda plan was ‘ahead of its time’

307

Reality Check: Rory Sutherland: Britain isn’t working – here’s how to fix it

308

Quite right!: Who could replace Keir Starmer? – Q&A

309

Americano: Alan Dershowitz on Epstein & the client list

310

Coffee House Shots: H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons on accidental prison release

311

The Edition: BBC in crisis, the Wes Streeting plot & why 'flakes' are the worst

312

The Book Club: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

313

Quite right!: BBC bias & Bridget ‘Philistine’s’ war on education

314

Reality Check: Britain's stats have become dangerously unreliable

315

Quite right!: Boris, Cameron or May? – Q&A

316

Holy Smoke: have the culture wars gone spiritual?

317

Coffee House Shots: what Trump II can teach Britain

318

The Edition: Trump’s gilded age, the ‘hell’ of polyamory & is Polanski Britain’s Mamdani?

319

Book Club: Graham Robb

320

Quite right!: Rachel Reeves’s Budget ‘bollocks’ & Britain’s everyday crime crisis

321

Spectator Out Loud: Luke Coppen, Mary Wakefield, Daniel McCarthy, Michael Simmons & Hugh Thomson

322

Americano: James Orr on J.D. Vance

323

Reality Check: the rich are leaving Britain – and making you poorer

324

Coffee House Shots: the inside story of Kemi's first year

325

The Edition: embracing the occult, going underground & lost languages

326

Book Club: Comet in Moominland turns 80

327

Quite right!: 'I was reported for bullying!' – inside the Home Office dysfunction

328

Speaker series: Piers Morgan – Woke is Dead

329

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Sam Leith, Michael Henderson, Madeline Grant & Julie Bindel

330

Holy Smoke: how did faith shape Thatcher?

331

Americano: will peace in Ukraine elude Trump?

332

The Edition: left-wing Ultras, Reform intellectuals & capitalist sex robots

333

NEW Reality Check: Britain is taxing itself to death – Arthur Laffer

334

Book Club: Peter James

335

Quite right!: ‘If he won’t jump, he needs to be shoved’ – should Prince Andrew be exiled?

336

Spectator Out Loud: Best of Notes on...

337

Americano: is Trump on a roll?

338

Table Talk: Gyles Brandreth

339

Coffee House Shots: Thatcher & Reagan's special relationship

340

Spectator Out Loud: Nick Boles, James Ball, Andrew Rosenheim, Arabella Byrne & Rory Sutherland

341

The Edition: Chinese spies, Vance’s rise & is French parenting supreme?

342

Quite right!: was Cameron wrong about China?

343

Holy Smoke: what does it mean 'to forgive'?

344

Americano: Trump's war on the cartels

345

Coffee House Shots: who is the greatest ever conservative?

346

Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman, Ian Williams, Theo Hobson, Lara Prendergast & Lisa Haseldine

347

Coffee House Shots Live: can the Tories turn it around?

348

The Edition: Jewish fear, 'the elimination of motherhood' & remembering Jilly Cooper

349

The Book Club: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language

350

Quite right! live: Kemi Badenoch's last conference?

351

Coffee House Shots live: who's listening to the Tories?

352

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, William Atkinson, David Shipley, Angus Colwell and Aidan Hartley

353

Speaker series: Jeffrey Archer – End Game

354

Coffee House Shots: what next for the British right?

355

Holy Smoke: the first female Archbishop of Canterbury

356

Book Club: Philippa Gregory

357

The Edition: Kemi's fightback, the cult of Thatcher & debunking British myths

358

Quite right!: is Labour 'racist' too?

359

Americano: Prof Mearsheimer on why Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ won’t work

360

Coffee House Shots: Shabana Mahmood in conversation with Michael Gove

361

Americano: is James Comey going to jail?

362

Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Parris, Stephen J. Shaw, Henry Jeffreys, Tessa Dunlop and Angus Colwell

363

Reparations: the tyranny of imaginary guilt, with Nigel Biggar & Katie Lam

364

Coffee House Shots: Michael Gove interviews Steve Reed

365

The Edition: Labour’s Terminator, Silicon Valley’s ‘Antichrist’ obsession & can charity shops survive?

366

The Book Club: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

367

Quite right!: Blair's ID card dystopia & the 'hell' of conference season

368

Americano: how scary is China's military?

369

Spectator Out Loud: John Power, Nick Carter, Elisabeth Dampier, Maggie Fergusson & Mark Mason

370

Holy Smoke: 800 years on, why is Aquinas Gen Z’s favourite philosopher?

371

Coffee House Shots: should Britain recognise Palestine?

372

The Edition: Weimar Britain, the war on science & are you a competitive reader?

373

Book Club: Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers

374

Quite right!: Why Danny Kruger's defection changes everything & could Boris Johnson be next?

375

Table Talk: Raymond Blanc

376

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Robert Hardman, Francis Pike, Henrietta Harding & Mary Wakefield

377

Americano: what’s driving political violence?

378

Holy Smoke: the next Archbishop of Canterbury

379

The Edition: Royal treatment, neurodiverse history & is everyone on Ozempic?

380

Americano: Eyewitness – inside the shooting of Charlie Kirk

381

Quite right!: Why Mandelson had to go & the legacy of Charlie Kirk

382

Book Club: Andrew Bayliss

383

Quite right!: Labour’s deputy drama, Macron’s mess & was Thatcher autistic?

384

Americano: how authoritarian is Trump 2.0?

385

Coffee House Shots: Reform's Zia Yusuf in conversation with Michael Gove

386

Holy Smoke: why the canonisation of the first millennial saint is a cause to celebrate

387

Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman, Colin Freeman, Rachel Clarke, Michael Gove & Melanie Ferbreach

388

The Edition: Reform’s camp following, masculine rage & why do people make up languages?

389

The Book Club: Lea Ypi

390

Quite right!: Farage steals summer, Starmer’s reset flop & should we 'raise the colours'?

391

Americano: do mass shootings begin online?

392

Coffee House Shots: how have the 2024 intake found frontline politics?

393

Holy Smoke: the Twelve Churches that made Christianity

394

Coffee House Shots: why Angela Rayner is so iconic

395

Spectator Out Loud: Tom Slater, Justin Marozzi, Iben Thranholm, Angus Colwell & Philip Womack

396

The Edition: the coming crash, a failing foster system & ‘DeathTok’

397

Book Club, from the archives: 80 years of Brideshead Revisited

398

Coffee House Shots: is Britain becoming more sectarian?

399

Coffee House Shots: Farage finally unveils his deportation plan

400

Americano: how progressivism killed American Protestantism

401

Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, Michael Simmons, Ursula Buchan, Igor Toronyi-Lalic, Richard Morris & Mark Mason

402

Coffee House Shots: Starmer’s authoritarian turn – with Ash Sarkar

403

Americano: how dangerous is Washington, D.C.?

404

The Edition: Putin’s trap, the decline of shame & holiday rental hell

405

Book Club Live: Max Hastings

406

Coffee House Shots: how do we get more working class people into politics?

407

Americano: did Putin get the upper hand in Alaska?

408

Holy Smoke: from the Bible to Tolkien, the risks & rewards of collecting rare books

409

Coffee House Shots: is the world safer than in 1945?

410

Spectator Out Loud: Patrick Kidd, Madeline Grant, Simon Heffer, Lloyd Evans & Toby Young

411

The Edition: Border lands, 200 years of British railways & who are the GOATs?

412

Book Club: Joanna Pocock

413

Table Talk: Brett Graham

414

Americano: what's the matter with Candace Owens?

415

Holy Smoke: how has John Henry Newman inspired Pope Leo XIV?

416

Americano: Ann Coulter on why Trump wins & why Reform can win

417

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Cosmo Landesman, Henry Blofeld, David Honigmann & Rachel Johnson

418

The Edition: Reform’s motherland, Meloni’s Italian renaissance & the adults learning to swim

419

Coffee House Shots: what Douglas Murray’s court win means for press freedom

420

Book Club: Nicola Barker

421

Americano: Trump, MAGA and US foreign policy

422

Coffee House Shots: why can't we agree on data?

423

Spectator Out Loud: Michael Simmons, Kapil Komireddi, Margaret Mitchell, David Abulafia and Melissa Kite

424

Holy Smoke: Massacres in Syria and the Congo

425

Coffee House Shots: the Online Safety Act vs free speech

426

Americano: Lionel Shriver on Trump’s second term

427

The Edition: Under CTRL, the Epping migrant protests & why is ‘romantasy’ so popular?

428

Book Club: Gary Shteyngart

429

Americano: what should we make of Trump's trip to the UK?

430

Table Talk: Charlotte Ivers

431

Americano: Douglas Murray on conspiracy America, Epstein & the new age of suspicion

432

Spectator Out Loud: Ian Thomson, Patrick Kidd, Mike Cormack, Ursula Buchan and Richard Bratby

433

Coffee House Shots: Katie Lam on immigration, benefits and the border

434

Americano: did Condé Nast shape the world?

435

The Edition: soul suckers of private equity, Douglas Murray on Epstein & are literary sequels ‘lazy’?

436

Book Club: Frances Wilson

437

Coffee House Shots: what's left of the Tories? with Michael Gove and Tim Shipman

438

Americano: is Epstein the new Russiagate?

439

Americano: will AI have rights?

440

Spectator Out Loud: Mark Mason, Mary Wakefield, Matthew Parris and Philip Patrick

441

Coffee House Shots Live: are the Tories toast?

442

Americano: Trump – the conventional foreign policy President?

443

The Edition: how the Bank broke Britain, Zelensky’s choice & the joys of mudlarking

444

The Book Club: Irvine Welsh on the new Trainspotting sequel

445

Table Talk: Candice Chung

446

Holy Smoke Live: Recovering the Sacred

447

Coffee House Shots: Amanda Spielman on the SEND row and Labour’s Ofsted blind spot

448

Spectator Out Loud: Sophia Falkner, Roger Lewis, Olivia Potts, Aidan Hartley and Toby Young

449

The Edition: Keir's peer purge, how to pick an archbishop & is AI ruining sport?

450

The Book Club: M. John Harrison

451

Coffee House Shots: can Keir defrost the 'entente glaciale'?

452

Americano: Victor Davis Hanson on left-wing rage, Musk’s grudge, & America’s identity crisis

453

Coffee House Shots: Labour’s first year (in review) with Tim Shipman & Quentin Letts

454

Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly, Gavin Mortimer, Dorian Lynskey, Steve Morris and Lloyd Evans

455

The Edition: Claws out for Keir, Mamdani’s poisoned apple & are most wedding toasts awful?

456

Book Club: Karin Slaughter

457

Holy Smoke: it’s time for Pope Leo XIV to make some tough decisions

458

Table Talk: Thomasina Miers, co-founder of Wahaca

459

Coffee House Shots: does Starmer still want to be PM?

460

Coffee House Shots: Steve Baker on how to organise a successful rebellion

461

Spectator Out Loud: Peter Frankopan, Tim Shipman, Francis Pike, Hermione Eyre and George Young

462

Americano: how did Zohran Mamdani win?

463

The Edition: war and peace, why restaurants are going halal & the great brown furniture transfer

464

The Book Club: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

465

Coffee House Shots: 'what the f***' is going on in Iran?

466

Holy Smoke: why are young Christians returning to tradition?

467

Coffee House Shots: Jeremy Hunt on Trump, Budgets and Welsh whisky

468

Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews, Bijan Omrani, Andrew Hankinson, Laurie Penny & Andrew Watts

469

The Edition: Starmer at sea, Iran on the brink & the importance of shame

470

The Book Club: William Dalrymple

471

Table Talk: Nadine Dorries

472

Americano: will Trump get dragged into the Israel-Iran conflict?

473

Book Club, from the archives: Frederick Forsyth

474

Coffee House Shots: why is Britain's economy so unhealthy?

475

Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas, John Power, Susie Mesure, Olivia Potts and Rory Sutherland

476

The Edition: Porn Britannia, Xi’s absence & no more lonely hearts?

477

The Book Club: Lucy Mangan

478

Holy Smoke: a Jewish guide to arguing

479

Americano: left-wing violence is being normalised

480

Holy Smoke: finding spiritual treasure in César Franck

481

Rupert Lowe on Reform turmoil, Chagos ‘treason’ and taking the Tory whip

482

Americano: did the swamp drain Elon Musk?

483

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Tanya Gold, Madeline Grant, Matthew Parris and Calvin Po

484

The Edition: Nigel wants YOU, secularism vs spirituality & how novel is experimental fiction?

485

The Book Club: Alice Loxton

486

Table Talk: Jun Tanaka

487

Americano: America's white guilt hangover

488

Holy Smoke: is God an Englishman?

489

Coffee House Shots: should cannabis be decriminalised?

490

Spectator Out Loud: Arabella Byrne, Sean Thomas, Mathew Lyons, Bryan Appleyard & Chas Newkey-Burden

491

The Edition: end of the rainbow, rising illiteracy & swimming pool etiquette

492

Americano: what does Sam Altman want?

493

Book Club: Robert Macfarlane

494

Holy Smoke: the mystifying process – and problems – behind choosing the next Archbishop of Canterbury

495

Coffee House Shots: why is antisemitism so pervasive? Irving v Lipstadt 25 years on

496

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Angus Colwell, Alice Loxton, Lloyd Evans, Richard Bratby, Christopher Howse and Catriona Olding

497

Women With Balls, from the archives: Jo Coburn

498

Coffee House Shots: David Gauke on prisons, probation & the political reaction to his review

499

The Edition: the real Brexit betrayal, bite-sized history & is being a bridesmaid brutal?

500

The Book Club: Geoff Dyer, the Proust of prog rock and Airfix

501

Low Life: The Spectator columns of Jeremy Clarke

502

Table Talk: Daria Lavelle, author of 'Aftertaste'

503

Americano: was Zbigniew Brzezinski a Cold War prophet?

504

Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove, Max Jeffery, Paul Wood, Susannah Jowitt and Leyla Sanai

505

Coffee House Shots: should Kemi Badenoch go?

506

Americano: what is Trump doing in the Middle East?

507

The Edition: Britain's billionaire exodus, Michael Gove interviews Shabana Mahmood & Hampstead's 'terf war'

508

The Book Club: Julie Bindel

509

Americano: how to revive the American mind

510

Americano: is the trade deal a coup for Starmer?

511

Olenka Hamilton, Melanie McDonagh, Hannah Moore, James Delingpole and William Atkinson

512

Coffee House Shots Live: Zia Yusuf and Jacob Rees-Mogg

513

Holy Smoke: Does Pope Leo XIV represent continuity or change?

514

The Edition: Scuzz Nation, the death of English literature & are you a bad house guest?

515

The Book Club: The Making of William Shakespeare

516

Table Talk: Mary-Ellen McTague

517

A compilation of Chinese Whispers: understanding China

518

Holy Smoke: who is likely to succeed Francis?

519

Coffee House Shots: is Reform unstoppable?

520

Spectator Out Loud: Ian Williams, Philip Patrick, Guy Stagg, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Mark Mason and Catriona Olding

521

Americano: Victor Davis Hanson on DEI, counter revolutions and why Trump is a 'tragic hero'

522

The Edition: Chambers of horrors, the ‘Dubai-ification’ of London & the enduring obsession with Diana

523

The Book Club: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

524

Coffee House Shots: Revenge of the centrists – Carney wins in Canada

525

Women With Balls: Kirsty Wark

526

Holy Smoke: What can we expect from the papal conclave?

527

Coffee House Shots: John Curtice on the local elections

528

Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews, Matthew Parris, Marcus Nevitt, Angus Colwell and Sean Thomas

529

The Edition: See change, A.I. ghouls & long live the long lunch!

530

The Book Club: why are Gen Z turning to Christianity?

531

Table Talk: Roger Pizey, Head of Pastry at Fortnum and Mason

532

Women With Balls: Deborah Mattinson

533

Holy Smoke: Pope Francis dies – what will his legacy be?

534

Coffee House Shots: How the Liberal Democrats conquered Middle England

535

Holy Smoke Easter special: in praise of faithful dissent, a conversation with Nigel Biggar and Mary Wakefield

536

Coffee House Shots: 10 years of politics as Balls bows out

537

Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Katy Balls, Olivia Potts, Benedict Allen, Cosmo Landesman and Aidan Hartley

538

The Edition: Easter special – assisted dying, ‘bunny ebola’ & how do you eat your creme egg?

539

Book Club: Philippe Sands

540

Americano: Trump v Harvard

541

Women With Balls: Lindsey Hilsum

542

Holy Smoke: Was Simeon of Jerusalem the first Christian in recorded history?

543

Coffee House Shots: Tariff turmoil – the end of globalisation or a blip in history?

544

Spectator Out Loud: Petroc Trelawny, Gareth Roberts, Tom Lee, Leyla Sanai and Iram Ramzan

545

The Edition: Trump shock, cousin marriage & would you steal from a restaurant?

546

The Book Club: What Is Free Speech?

547

Americano: has trump stopped the oligarchy?

548

Table Talk: Gok Wan

549

Chinese Whispers: what does it take to be an 'old friend of the Chinese people'?

550

Women With Balls: Katie Lam

551

Spectator Out Loud: Gavin Mortimer, Colin Freeman, Lawrence Osborne, Lionel Shriver and Anthony Cummins

552

Coffee House Shots: Marine Le Pen – justice or lawfare?

553

Americano: Trump's tariffs – madman or mastermind?

554

The Edition: Cruel Labour, the decline of sacred spaces & Clandon Park’s controversial restoration

555

Americano: will Trump’s tariffs unravel the neoliberal global order?

556

The Book Club: Joe Dunthorne

557

Holy Smoke: the tin ear of Justin Welby

558

Americano: Douglas Murray on JFK, Covid-19 & conspiracy culture

559

Women With Balls: Kim Leadbeater

560

Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews, James Heale, Francis Pike, Christian House and Mark Mason

561

Coffee House Shots: Michael Heseltine on Thatcher, Boris and Badenoch

562

Holy Smoke: who is actually running the Catholic Church?

563

Coffee House Shots Live with Maurice Glasman, David Frost and James Kanagasooriam

564

The Edition: The age of the strongman, Tesla under attack & matinee revivals

565

The Book Club: Francesca Simon

566

Americano: what did we learn from the war chat leaks?

567

Table Talk: Loyd Grossman

568

Chinese Whispers: from Chimerica to Cold War II

569

Women With Balls: Caroline Lucas

570

Spectator Out Loud: Henry Jeffreys, Marcus Walker, Angus Colwell, Nicolas Farrell and Rory Sutherland

571

Coffee House Shots: were we right to lock down? Michael Gove vs Toby Young

572

Americano: has Putin played Trump?

573

The Edition: Labour’s growing pains, survival of the hottest & murder most fascinating

574

The Book Club: Who is Government?

575

Women With Balls: Miatta Fahnbulleh

576

Spectator Out Loud: Colin Freeman, Harry Ritchie, Max Jeffery, Michael Gove and Catriona Olding

577

Coffee House Shots: is Keir Starmer a Tory?

578

Americano: can Trump survive a recession?

579

The Edition: massacre of the innocents, saving endangered languages & Gen Z’s ‘Boom Boom’ aesthetic

580

Holy Smoke: Christianity, culture wars and J.D. Vance, a conversation with James Orr

581

The Book Club: A Publisher's Memoir

582

Table Talk: Ash Sarkar

583

Chinese Whispers: Rana Mitter on the legacy of Sun Yat-sen

584

Americano: is China serious about 'war' with America?

585

Spectator Out Loud: Harry Cole, Zoe Strimpel, Michael Simmons, Nigel Warburton and Justin Marozzi

586

Coffee House Shots: who would be a Conservative? – Kate Andrews vs Michael Gove

587

Women With Balls: Julia Lopez

588

The Edition: why Ukraine's minerals matter, the NHS's sterilisation problem & remembering the worst poet in history

589

The Book Club: Michael Wolff

590

Americano: the case for energy humanism

591

Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Matthew Parris, Ian Buruma, Hermione Eyre and Francis Young

592

Coffee House Shots Live: A Look To The Year Ahead

593

Americano: how successful was Keir Starmer's visit to Washington?

594

Women With Balls: Alexandra Shulman, former Vogue Editor

595

The Edition: inside Nigel’s gang, my day as a ‘missing person’ & how to save James Bond

596

The Book Club: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

597

Holy Smoke: Conclave - what really happens when a Pope dies?

598

Table Talk: Emma Fox, CEO of Berry Bros & Rudd

599

Chinese Whispers: What China's planned mega-dam means for Asia

600

Americano: was 'free trade' really working?

601

Spectator Out Loud: Hugh Schofield, Igor Toronyi-Lalic & Michael Simmons, Lisa Haseldine, Alice Loxton and Aidan Hartley

602

Coffee House Shots: How the Whips' office really works

603

Holy Smoke: Holy War and Antichrist, the rise of extremist rhetoric inside the Russian Orthodox Church

604

The Edition: new world disorder, cholesterol pseudoscience vs scepticism & the magic of Dickens

605

The Book Club: The World in the Ocean

606

Americano: Rob Henderson on Musk, monogamy & meritocracy

607

Holy Smoke: Why militant atheists don’t understand religion, a conversation with Alister McGrath

608

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Andrew Kenny, Lara Prendergast, Ysenda Maxtone Graham and Nina Power

609

Coffee House Shots: Kemi vs Nigel - who would Thatcher have backed?

610

Americano: does Trump’s foreign policy make any sense? with Prof John Mearsheimer

611

The Edition: Britain’s bureaucratic bloat, debating surrogacy & is smoking ‘sexy’?

612

Coffee House Shots: Keir Starmer and the lost art of political oratory

613

Book Club: Radiohead's Colin Greenwood

614

Americano: could Trump target Britain with tariffs?

615

Table Talk: Groove Armada's Andy Cato

616

Chinese Whispers: Have America's chips controls backfired?

617

Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Alexander Raubo, Damian Thompson, Daisy Dunn and Mark Mason

618

Coffee House Shots: The inside story of Labour under Starmer

619

Women With Balls: Kay Burley, from the archives

620

The Edition: Labour's Irish insurgent, Germany's 'firewall' falls & finding joy in obituaries

621

Americano: Will Trump make Gaza great again?

622

The Book Club: Under A Metal Sky

623

Coffee House Shots: Reform in 'poll' position

624

Americano: are Trump's tariffs really that bad?

625

Table Talk: Jeremy Chan

626

Holy Smoke: are Syrian Christians who speak the language of Jesus about to disappear after 2,000 years?

627

Spectator Out Loud: Loyd Grossman, Tanya Gold, Harry Halem, Angus Colwell, Philippe Sands and Michael Simmons

628

Americano: are the Democrats paralysed?

629

The Edition: migration mystery, Ipso’s trans muddle & are you a ‘trad dad’?

630

Americano: how is round one of Trump’s deportations plan going?

631

The Book Club: The Surreal Joys of Father Ted

632

Chinese Whispers: What is China's 'United Front' agenda?

633

Americano: what will Trump's crypto world look like?

634

Holy Smoke: Could Trump 2.0. herald a new era of religious liberty in America?

635

Coffee House Shots: what Labour and the Tories can learn from Pierre Poilievre

636

Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Tanya Gold, Rose George, Toby Young and Rory Sutherland

637

Women With Balls: Rachael Maskell

638

The Edition: Industry tragedy, Trump vs the Pope & the depressing reality of sex parties

639

The Book Club: what we get wrong about The Great Gatsby

640

Americano: 'I'm a Democrat who will give him a chance' - Lionel Shriver on Trump's inauguration

641

Coffee House Shots: Could Trump 2.0 derail the Starmer project?

642

Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove, Mary Wakefield, Mitchell Reiss, Max Jeffery and Nicholas Farrell

643

Coffee House Shots: Reeves's worst week so far?

644

Holy Smoke: did Muslim leaders help conceal the grooming gangs scandal? A fierce exchange of views

645

The Edition: Empire of Trump, the creep of child-free influencers & is fact-checking a fiction?

646

Americano: have the wildfires exposed America's class divide?

647

The Book Club: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost

648

Table Talk: Julian Baggini, on the 'philosophy of food'

649

Chinese Whispers: Eva Dou on 'The House of Huawei'

650

Americano: is Ron De Santis right about 'classical education'?

651

Spectator Out Loud: Catherine Lafferty, Michael Simmons, Paul Wood, Philip Hensher, Isabel Hardman and Damian Thompson

652

Coffee House Shots: what's the point of public inquiries?

653

Americano: how will Trump change the world? With the FT's Gideon Rachman

654

The Edition: the truth about grooming gangs, 'why I'm voting for the AfD' & exploring YouTube rabbit holes

655

The Book Club: Rachel Cooke

656

Coffee House Shots: Farage vs Musk

657

Women With Balls: Sarah Storey

658

Spectator Out Loud: James MacMillan, Sebastian Morello, Amy Wilentz, Sam Leith and Lloyd Evans

659

Table Talk: 'Caviar Queen', Laura King

660

The Edition: the West's right turn, Michael Gove interviews Jordan Peterson & the ADHD trap

661

Coffee House Shots: is 2025 Farage’s year?

662

The Book Club: Orhan Pamuk

663

Americano: what will Jimmy Carter be remembered for?

664

Holy Smoke: how abuse scandals shattered the Church of England but were hidden by the Vatican

665

Coffee House Shots: why 2025 could redefine politics

666

Americano: did 2024 save the American dream?

667

Book Club, from the archives: Annie Nightingale

668

2024 Out Loud: Cindy Yu, Michael Simmons, Angus Colwell, Igor Toronyi-Lalic, Mary Wakefield, Fraser Nelson and Michael Gove

669

Coffee House Shots: have we been too quick to judge Kemi Badenoch?

670

The Edition: Best of 2024, with Dominic Sandbrook, Mary Beard and Harriet Harman

671

Holy Smoke: why was C.S. Lewis such a killjoy at Christmas? with Alister McGrath

672

Chinese Whispers: Peter Hessler on what English names can reveal about China

673

Christmas Out Loud II: Andrews Watts, Marcus Walker, Ali Kefford, Roger Lewis, Ayaan Hirsh Ali and Christopher Howse

674

Coffee House Shots: Year in Review 2024

675

Women With Balls: Maureen Lipman

676

Americano: are migrants 'self-deporting' in fear of Trump?

677

The Book Club: Chris Ware

678

Table Talk: Elif Shafak

679

Coffee House Shots: would Brexit voters really accept the return of freedom of movement?

680

Holy Smoke: is the end of Christendom nigh? with A.N. Wilson

681

Christmas Out Loud I: Katy Balls, Craig Brown, Kate Weinberg, Craig Raine, Lisa Haseldine and Melissa Kite

682

Americano: has Trump already become President?

683

The Edition: Christmas Special 2024 with Rod Liddle, Lionel Shriver, Matthew Parris and Mary Wakefield

684

The Book Club: Daniel Tammet

685

Americano: is Assad’s downfall a ‘catastrophic success’?

686

Chinese Whispers: Xi Jinping's PLA purges

687

Holy Smoke: Defender of the Faith - how have the King’s religious beliefs changed?

688

Spectator Out Loud: Alexandra Shulman, Sean Thomas, Matthew Parris, Adrian Dannatt and Philip Hensher

689

Coffee House Shots: exclusive interview with Sunak’s chief of staff

690

The Edition: how twee triumphed, Graham Brady on Tory turmoil & celebrating pigs in blankets

691

The Book Club: Jonathan Coe

692

Table Talk: Richard Madeley

693

Coffee House Shots: is Keir Starmer turning into Rishi Sunak?

694

Innovator of the Year Awards: The winners

695

Spectator Out Loud: Kate Andrews, Mark Galeotti, Adrian Pascu-Tulbure, Michael Hann and Olivia Potts

696

Americano: what's going on at Mar-a-Lago?

697

The Edition: SAS betrayal, the battle for Odesa & in defence of film flops

698

Coffee House Shots: Boris Johnson on Covid failures, the Nanny State & his advice for ‘Snoozefest’ Starmer

699

Holy Smoke: should assisted dying be legalised?

700

The Book Club: Nick Harkaway

701

Americano: John Bolton on Trump's 'crackpot' cabinet

702

Chinese Whispers: what's behind the Chinese migrant surge at the Darien Gap?

703

Women With Balls: Claire Ainsley

704

Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Parris, Joanna Bell, Peter Frankopan, Mary Wakefield and Flora Watkins

705

Americano: the ‘experts’ who enabled RFK Jr’s rise

706

The Edition: Streeting vs Starmer, medical misinformation & the surprising history of phallic graffiti

707

The Book Club: Josh Cohen

708

Americano: what is Trump 2.0 going to do with the world?

709

Table Talk: Julian Metcalfe, founder of Itsu

710

Americano: Douglas Murray on Elon Musk - will he make America great again?

711

Taxes, tariffs and Trump: What lies ahead for Labour?

712

Spectator Out Loud: Nadine Dorries, Katy Balls, Edmund West, Sam Dalrymple, and Tanjil Rashid

713

Americano: can Donald Trump deliver on his pledge to fix the border?

714

The Edition: Elon's America, Welby's legacy & celebrating Beaujolais Day

715

The Book Club: Michael Moorcock

716

Americano: can Trump really end the war in Ukraine?

717

Holy Smoke: Welby resigns - crisis at the Church of England

718

Chinese Whispers: Why Beijing is wary of a Russo-North Korean alliance

719

Americano: will Trump make good on his election promises?

720

Holy Smoke: Did Christianity create secular humanism?

721

Americano: are we about to see Trump unleashed?

722

Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Sean Thomas, Imogen Yates, Books of the Year II, and Alan Steadman

723

Women With Balls: Shivani Raja

724

The Edition: Trump's comeback, Labour's rural divide, and World of Warcraft

725

Americano: why Donald Trump won and the real reason Kamala Harris lost

726

Book Club: 100th anniversary of A A Milne and E H Shepard

727

Table Talk: Terry Wiggins, Parliament Chef

728

Americano: is the last minute momentum really with Kamala Harris?

729

Bespoke batteries, recyclable electronics and drone ports – Britain's manufacturing and engineering Innovators of the Year

730

Americano: America's impossible election choice

731

AI studios, ethical advertising and software for defence – Britain's business services Innovator of the Year

732

Coffee House Shots: Badenoch wins, what next?

733

Spectator Out Loud: Christopher Caldwell, Gus Carter, Ruaridh Nicoll, Tanya Gold, and Books of the Year I

734

Americano: why are Trump and Harris campaigning in safe States?

735

The Edition: Team Trump, astrologers versus pollsters & debating history

736

The Book Club: John Suchet

737

Wonky fruits, supplements for pets and smart walking sticks – Britain's consumer Innovators of the Year

738

Chinese Whispers: is China in decline?

739

Carbon capture, vertical farming and coding for girls – Britain's environmental and social purpose Innovators of the Year

740

Holy Smoke: why is the Kirk selling off hundreds of churches so cheaply?

741

Spectator Out Loud: Philip Womack, Ian Thomson, Silkie Carlo, Francis Young and Rory Sutherland

742

Americano: Nigel Farage live on Trump, Labour, and why he’s the ‘natural candidate’ for US ambassador

743

Women With Balls: Daisy Cooper

744

The Edition: Cambridge in crisis, Trump’s wicked humour & the beauty of AI ceramics

745

Americano: is Labour interfering in the US election?

746

The Book Club: Rachel Clarke

747

Table Talk: Tim Spector

748

AI, gene therapy and challenges of the NHS – Britain's health Innovators of the Year

749

Spectator Out Loud: Richard Dawkins, Nicholas Farrell, Mary Wakefield, Lisa Hilton and Philip Hensher

750

Coffee House Shots: should bishops be booted out of the Lords?

751

Holy Smoke: The Pope announces 21 new cardinals – is he trying to pack the conclave?

752

The Edition: Reeves's gambit, a debate on assisted dying & queer life in postwar Britain

753

Americano: could the Catholic vote decide the US election?

754

Book Club: Sue Prideaux

755

Americano: which campaign has the better ground game?

756

Chinese Whispers: tycoon Desmond Shum on corruption, power and his wife’s disappearance

757

Women With Balls: Tracy-Ann Oberman

758

Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove, Max Jeffery, Christopher Howse, Robert Jackman and Mark Mason

759

Americano: should a true populist not support Trump?

760

The Edition: Labour’s China pivot, Yvette Cooper’s extremism crackdown & the ladies who punch

761

The Book Club: Alan Johnson

762

Table Talk: Claire Dinhut

763

Eylon Levy: is the world still with Israel?

764

Holy Smoke: could religious voters in the swing states decide the US election?

765

Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson, Cindy Yu, Mary Wakefield, Anthony Sattin, and Toby Young

766

Americano: Could America go to war with Iran?

767

The Edition: Israel's revenge, farewell Fraser & the demise of invitations

768

The Book Club: Malcolm Gladwell

769

Coffee House Shots live: the struggle for the future of conservatism

770

Americano: what happens if the election is a tie?

771

Chinese Whispers: will AI be the next arms race?

772

Americano: could Pennsylvania decide the US election?

773

Spectator Out Loud: Rachel Johnson, James Heale, Paul Wood, Rowan Pelling and Graeme Thomson

774

Women With Balls: Bridget Phillipson, live at Labour conference

775

The Edition: Tory wars, the reality of trail hunting & is Sally Rooney-mania over?

776

The Book Club: Alan Garner

777

Table Talk: Charlie Bigham

778

Americano: Are Big Tech monopolies the biggest threat to democracy?

779

Holy Smoke: How pistols in St Paul’s Cathedral shaped the science of sound

780

Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Ross Clark, Andrew Lycett, Laura Gascoigne and Henry Jeffreys

781

The Book Club: Lindsey Hilsum

782

The Edition: Farage's plan, the ethics of euthanasia & Xi's football failure

783

Coffee House Shots: should Labour ditch the ‘doom and gloom’ narrative?

784

Americano: Are Democrats to blame for the repeated attempts to kill Trump?

785

Chinese Whispers: a father and son at the edge of the Chinese empire

786

Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson, David Whitehouse, Imogen Yates, Sean McGlynn and Ruari Clark

787

Women With Balls: Lucy Powell

788

The Edition: Trump’s debate woes, how to catch a paedo & the politics of the hotel breakfast buffet

789

Book Club: Craig Brown

790

Americano: Andrew Neil & Piers Morgan on America's 2024 election

791

Table Talk: Simon Raymonde

792

Americano: Has everyone got election fatigue?

793

Holy Smoke: Losing faith - will Labour’s VAT policy hit religious schools hardest?

794

Spectator Out Loud: Ian Thomson, Andrew Watts, Sam Leith, Helen Barrett and Catriona Olding

795

Americano: Nate Silver on risk-takers, the US election & the power of luck in politics

796

The Edition: Miliband's net zero madness, meet Reform’s new poster boy & the plight of the restaurant critic

797

The Book Club: Amy Jeffs

798

Americano: Will Kamala actually build the wall?

799

Chinese Whispers: Investigating China's 'historic' claims in the South China Sea

800

Holy Smoke, from the archives: An atheist goes on a Christian pilgrimage. Why?

801

Spectator Out Loud: Joan Collins, Owen Matthews, Sara Wheeler, Igor Toronyi-Lalic and Tanya Gold

802

Women With Balls: Dame Karen Pierce, from the archives

803

The Edition: Alt reich - is Germany's far right about to go mainstream?

804

Book Club: Ian Sansom, from the archives

805

Table Talk: Will Beckett

806

Americano: Mearsheimer on Ukraine, Israel-Gaza and the US election

807

Spectator Out Loud: William Cash, Marcus Nevitt, Nina Power, Christopher Howse and Olivia Potts

808

Americano: Live from the DNC

809

The Edition: All hail Harris!

810

Book Club: Carlo Rovelli, from the archives

811

Americano: Douglas Murray on free speech in the UK and US

812

Chinese Whispers: what would a second Trump presidency bring for China?

813

Women With Balls: Kemi Badenoch, from the archives

814

Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Cindy Yu, Lara Prendergast, Pen Vogler and James Delingpole

815

Americano: is Elon Musk a great man of history?

816

The Edition: Power play

817

Book Club: Adam Higginbotham

818

Table Talk: Romy Gill

819

Spectator Out Loud: Gus Carter, Paul Wood, Jonathan Aitken, Laura Gascoigne and Flora Watkins

820

The Edition: why Britain riots

821

The Book Club: Nathan Thrall

822

Chinese Whispers: how oil became the latest food scandal

823

Americano: How long will Kamalamania last?

824

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Lara Prendergast, Patrick Marnham, Laura Gascoigne and Michael Simmons

825

Women With Balls: Rachel Reeves, from the archives

826

The Edition: Keir Starmer’s plan to soften Brexit

827

The Book Club: David Baddiel

828

Table Talk: with Fred Smith

829

Spectator Out Loud: Damian Thompson, Paola Romero, Stuart Jeffries, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, and Nicholas Farrell

830

Americano: Will Kamala's campaign implode?

831

The Edition: the curious rise of Kamala Harris

832

Book Club: Neil Jordan

833

Chinese Whispers: why China loves Taylor Swift

834

Spectator Out Loud: Kate Andrews, Adam Frank, David Hempleman-Adams, Svitlana Morenets and Michael Beloff

835

Holy Smoke: A Habsburg Archduke explains how not to be nasty on Twitter

836

The Edition: is Donald Trump now unstoppable?

837

The Book Club: Collected Poems of Roger McGough

838

Americano: Will JD Vance bridge America's class divide?

839

Americano: Why did the Secret Service fail Donald Trump?

840

Americano: Trump shot – what next?

841

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Svitlana Morenets, Philip Hensher, Francis Beckett and Rupert Christiansen

842

Americano: Eric Kaufmann on DEI, the contagion effect and free speech

843

The Edition: Keir's reformation

844

The Book Club: Thom Gunn's Cool Queer Life

845

Chinese Whispers: How China's electric cars dominated the world

846

Americano: Elbridge Colby on why America must pivot from Ukraine to Taiwan

847

Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Angus Colwell, Matthew Parris, Flora Watkins and Rory Sutherland

848

Women With Balls: Sophie Winkleman

849

The Edition: the reckoning

850

Book Club: Kathleen Jamie

851

Table Talk: Sir David Hempleman-Adams

852

Holy Smoke: Walsingham and the musical grief of the Reformation

853

Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Gavin Mortimer, Sean Thomas, Robert Colvile and Melissa Kite

854

Americano: Biden's debate disaster

855

The Edition: how Nigel Farage became the left's greatest weapon

856

The Book Club: Åsne Seierstad

857

Chinese Whispers: Can the EU fend off the threat of China's electric cars?

858

Spectator Out Loud: Matt Ridley, William Cook, Owen Matthews and Agnes Poirier

859

Americano: how to save liberalism

860

The Edition: how Keir Starmer plans to rule through the courts

861

The Book Club: Mark Bostridge

862

Table Talk: Hadley Freeman

863

Americano: is anti-white racism tearing America apart?

864

Spectator Out Loud: Natasha Feroze, Robert Ades, Lucasta Miller, Sam McPhail, Toby Young and Catriona Olding

865

Women With Balls: Harriet Harman

866

The Edition: can Macron still outplay Le Pen?

867

The Book Club: Marlon James

868

Chinese Whispers: How would Britain's Labour party change UK-China relations?

869

Americano: how can you stop Donald Trump?

870

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Melanie McDonagh, Matthew Parris, Iain MacGregor and Petronella Wyatt

871

Women With Balls: Nickie Aiken

872

Americano: what's the matter with America's media?

873

The Edition: The Farage factor

874

The Book Club: Richard Flanagan

875

Table Talk: Theo Randall

876

Women With Balls: Claudia Mendoza

877

Spectator Out Loud: Peter Parker, Wayne Hunt, Nicholas Lezard, Mark Mason and Nicholas Farrell

878

Americano: Trump found guilty but will it matter?

879

Americano: John Mearsheimer on Ukraine, Gaza & escalation dominance

880

The Edition: Wannabes

881

The Book Club: The legacy of Franz Kafka

882

Holy Smoke: Calm fire - the consolation of listening to Bruckner

883

Chinese Whispers: Life in a changing China

884

Americano: Would a conviction hurt Trump?

885

Americano: What is Trump’s new foreign policy?

886

Spectator Out Loud: Quentin Letts, Owen Matthews, Michael Hann, Laura Gascoigne, and Michael Simmons

887

Americano: Why is Biden so unpopular?

888

The Edition: Rishi Sunak’s election gamble

889

The Book Club: Conn Iggulden

890

Table Talk: Tim Hayward

891

Americano: is Biden losing the swing states?

892

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, David Shipley, Patrick Kidd, Cindy Yu, and Hugh Thomson

893

Women With Balls: the Shabana Mahmood Edition

894

The Edition: who will Trump pick for his running mate?

895

Americano: Who could be Trump's VP?

896

The Book Club: Olivia Laing

897

Chinese Whispers: China's vendetta against Nato

898

Americano: Should America have a Monarch?

899

Americano: What's this revolution really about?

900

Spectator Out Loud: Slavoj Zizek, Angus Colwell, Svitlana Morenets, Cindy Yu, and Philip Hensher

901

Women With Balls: Lisa Cameron

902

The Edition: how universities raised a generation of activists

903

The Book Club: Jackie Kay

904

Table Talk: Michael Zee

905

Americano: Is Donald Trump really going to be a dictator?

906

Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas, Kara Kennedy, Philip Hensher, Damian Thompson and Toby Young

907

Americano: is the West heading towards annihilation?

908

The Edition: is Rishi ready for the rebels?

909

The Book Club: Ariane Bankes

910

Americano: Coleman Hughes on neo-racism, US election, and The View

911

Chinese Whispers: How China is quietly cutting out American tech

912

Americano: does America run Britain?

913

Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Lionel Shriver, Mark Mason and Graeme Thomson

914

Women With Balls: how can Britain back women-led businesses?

915

The Edition: China's global spy network

916

The Book Club: Kathryn Hughes

917

Table Talk: Joel Golby

918

Americano: what Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial tells us about the American legal system

919

Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, Mary Wakefield, Max Jeffery, Sam Leith and Richard Bratby

920

Americano: is the criticism of Biden's Middle East policy fair?

921

The Edition: the dangers of political prosecution

922

The Book Club: Percival Everett

923

Liz Truss on who really runs Britain

924

Chinese Whispers: Was Marco Polo a 'sexpat'?

925

Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Parris, Laurie Graham, Rachel Johnson, Laura Gascoigne and Angus Colwell

926

Americano: will abortion decide the 2024 election?

927

Women With Balls: Laura Farris

928

The Edition: will Biden support Ukraine’s attacks on Russia?

929

Americano: why did Mike Johnson snub David Cameron?

930

The Book Club: Dorian Lynskey

931

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Madeleine Teahan, Tanya Gold and William Moore

932

Americano: What's Biden's strategy in the Middle East?

933

The Edition: The Starmer supremacy

934

The Book Club: Annie Jacobsen

935

Chinese Whispers: what China's hackers want

936

Spectator Out Loud: Sophie Winkleman, Svitlana Morenets, Candida Crewe and Ysenda Maxtone Graham

937

Americano: what's happening in the Darien Gap?

938

Women With Balls: Anne Jenkin

939

The Edition: Easter special

940

The Book Club: Viet Thanh Nguyen

941

Table Talk: Gennaro Contaldo

942

Americano: why do Trump’s enemies always overreach?

943

Americano: is America in decline?

944

Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Kate Andrews, Lloyd Evans, Sam McPhail and Graeme Thomson

945

Americano: Trump vs luxury beliefs

946

The Edition: Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act is fraught with danger

947

The Book Club: Joel Morris

948

Americano: are we suffering from 'Trump outrage fatigue'?

949

Chinese Whispers: Li Ziqi and the phenomenon of the rural influencer

950

Americano: will America ban TikTok?

951

Spectator Out Loud: William Moore, Sean Thomas, Matt Ridley, Lionel Shriver and Kate Andrews

952

Holy Smoke: how the Church of England patronises African Christians

953

Women With Balls: it's time to talk about your pension

954

The Edition: will the Red Wall revolt split the right?

955

Americano: power, politics and the grid

956

The Book Club: Lauren Oyler

957

Table Talk: Alex Jackson

958

Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Hannah Tomes, Cosmo Landesman

959

Americano: How will RFK Junior change the 2024 election?

960

The Edition: what to expect from a second Trump term

961

Americano: Will Trump's election be 'too big to rig'?

962

The Book Club: Peter Pomerantsev

963

Chinese Whispers: how China's rural deprivation curbs its success

964

Americano: Will Tech decide the US election?

965

Spectator Out Loud: Lukas Degutis, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Richard Bratby and Toby Young

966

Women With Balls: Thangam Debbonaire

967

The Edition: plan Bibi

968

The Book Club: Colum McCann

969

Americano: A Donald Trump debate

970

Americano: are pollsters underestimating Joe Biden?

971

Ageing well: becoming a world leader in tackling dementia and Alzheimer’s

972

Holy Smoke: How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik?

973

Action Men: why women don’t need ‘allies’ fighting male violence – Julie Bindel & Jackson Katz

974

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Lisa Haseldine, Christopher Howse, Philip Hensher and Calvin Po

975

Americano: human rights vs democracy

976

The Edition: why Britain stopped working

977

The Book Club: Tom Chatfield

978

Americano: should Julian Assange be extradited to America?

979

Chinese Whispers: what the Messi row reveals about Chinese football

980

Spectator Out Loud: Harry Mount, Lara Prendergast, Catriona Olding, Owen Matthews and Jeremy Hildreth

981

Americano: What do Republicans think of Lord Cameron?

982

Women With Balls: Justine Greening

983

The Edition: Is Nato ready for war with Russia?

984

What happened to the Democratic Party?

985

Which way will the swing states go?

986

The Book Club: Chris Bryant

987

Table Talk: Professor Charles Spence

988

Americano: how bad is the border crisis?

989

Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, Paul Mason, Robbie Mallett and Lloyd Evans

990

Action Men: the false ‘liberation’ of the sex trade

991

The Edition: inside the plot to take down Rishi Sunak

992

The Book Club: Paula Byrne

993

Americano: Is 2024 a ‘flip election’?

994

Chinese Whispers: why do people join the CCP?

995

Americano: can Trump ever get a fair trial?

996

Spectator Out Loud: Lionel Shriver, Angus Colwell and Toby Young

997

Does the Biden administration know what it’s doing with Iran?

998

Women With Balls: Gina Miller

999

The Edition: how the Tories gave up on liberty

1000

The Book Club: Sathnam Sanghera