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

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

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Americano: how Steve Hilton plans to win California

4

The Edition: Burnham’s chaotic takeover

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The Book Club: 160 years of Beatrix Potter

6

Quite right!: inside Burnham’s brutal Labour purge

7

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

8

Coffee House: Burnham becomes Prime Minister

9

Reality Check: Fact checking Rupert Lowe on Joe Rogan

10

Americano: what did Lindsey Graham want?

11

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

12

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

13

The Book Club: Rome's Age of Revolutions

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

Holy Smoke: how religion shapes football

18

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

19

The Edition: has Farage lost control?

20

Americano: the truth about Gavin Newsom

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

Coffee House Shots: Summer Party Secrets

29

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

30

Americano: Why is America’s radical left winning?

31

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

32

Americano: has America really lost to Iran?

33

Coffee House Shots: is Britain ungovernable?

34

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

35

The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli

36

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

37

Americano: will AI extinguish humanity? With Nate Soares

38

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

39

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

40

Holy Smoke: are Mormons Christian?

41

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

42

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

43

The Book Club: How Our Children Live Now

44

Quite right!: was Enoch Powell right about Britain?

45

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

46

Americano: can Trump forge a lasting peace with Iran?

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

The Book Club: George Forster and the Search for Humanity

51

Quite right!: why Starmer won’t go quietly

52

Americano: the 2026 midterms, immigration & the Democrats

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

Coffee House Shots: Nigel Farage on the battle for Makerfield

57

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

58

The Book Club: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

59

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

60

Reality Check: why price caps are pointless

61

Americano: who is Usha Vance?

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

The Book Club: Siri Hustvedt

67

Quite Right: Peter Murrell's mafia-style SNP

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

The Book Club: Alexander the Great's accidental empire

73

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

74

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

75

Americano: what have Britons got against America?

76

The Book Club: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies

77

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

78

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

79

Coffee House Shots: inside Labour's leadership crisis

80

Quite right!: Starmer’s last stand

81

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

82

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

83

Quite right!: how to stage a leadership coup

84

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

85

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

86

The Book Club: The Poems of Sylvia Plath

87

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

88

LIVE: Conservatives vs Reform debate

89

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

90

Reality check: why Polanski is wrong about drug legalisation

91

Americano: how the Declaration of Independence made America

92

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

93

The Book Club: How to Kill a Language

94

Quite right!: Katie Lam interview

95

Coffee House Shots: Morgan McSweeney faces the music

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

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

100

The Book Club: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

101

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

102

Americano: Iran vs USA – how this could end

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

The Book Club: The Once and Future Riot

108

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

109

Americano: 'The Case for American Power'

110

Book Club: Mason Currey

111

Americano: what's up with Melania Trump?

112

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

113

The Edition: is Britain losing its sense of fairness?

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

Book Club: Yann Martel

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

The Book Club: inside the world of competitive Scrabble

129

Quite right!: the political Islam debate

130

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

131

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

132

Americano: can anyone beat a madman President?

133

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

134

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

135

The Book Club: Howard Jacobson

136

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

137

Holy Smoke: who is Sarah Mullally?

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

The Book Club: Lionel Shriver

143

Quite right!: is Britain still a great power?

144

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

145

Americano: why Iran marks the end of neoconservatism

146

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

147

Book Club: Paris in the Shadow of War

148

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

149

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

150

Quite right!: Trump's plan in Iran explained

151

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

152

Americano: will Iran descend into civil war?

153

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

154

LIVE: The Spectator’s Alternative Covid Inquiry

155

Americano: Trump strikes Iran

156

Quite right!: Munira Mirza | part two

157

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

158

Book Club: Francis Spufford

159

Quite right!: Munira Mirza | part one

160

Holy Smoke: how Russia is waging Holy War in Ukraine

161

Coffee House Shots: why by-elections matter

162

Reality Check: the £100 billion problem nobody talks about

163

The Book Club: A Philosophy of Addiction

164

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

165

Coffee House Shots: how prepared is Britain for war?

166

Quite right!: who replaces Nigel Farage?

167

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

168

Americano: is Trump dismantling Venezuela's socialist state?

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

Book Club: Fast Food Nation – revisited

173

Quite right!: 'Keir Starmer is the problem'

174

Americano: what will happen in the mid terms?

175

Coffee House Shots: McSweeney resigns – is Starmer next?

176

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

177

Holy Smoke: has AI created its own religion?

178

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

179

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

180

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

181

Quite right!: the Peter Mandelson problem just got worse

182

Americano: who is the real Melania Trump?

183

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

184

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

185

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

186

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

187

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

188

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

189

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

190

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

191

Holy Smoke: the historic value of English churches

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

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

197

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

198

Holy Smoke: why theocracies survive – with Peter Frankopan

199

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

200

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

201

The Book Club: How To Play A Game Without Rules

202

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

203

Americano: does America really need Venezuela's oil?

204

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

205

Americano: is Trump going for Iran next?

206

Coffee House Shots: mums for Reform?

207

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

208

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

209

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

210

Coffee House Shots: is 2026 Kemi's year?

211

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

212

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

213

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

214

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

215

Quite right!: Dominic Cummings – part two

216

The Book Club: Books of the Year 2025

217

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

218

Coffee House Shots Live: Year in Review 2025

219

Reality Check: 2025 – tears, tariffs & taxes

220

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

221

Spectator Out Loud: Slipshod – by Sarah Perry

222

Holy Smoke: how transformative has 2025 been for Christianity?

223

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

224

Table Talk: Michael Gove

225

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

226

Coffee House Shots: who won 2025? with Quentin Letts

227

Americano: why did Susie Wiles talk to Vanity Fair?

228

Speaker series: Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Storm

229

Quite right!: where does Islamism come from?

230

Holy Smoke: why religious societies succeed – with Rory Sutherland

231

Americano: how is Trump's counter revolution going?

232

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

233

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

234

The Christmas Edition: From The Queen to Bonnie Blue

235

The Book Club: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger

236

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

237

Table Talk: Tom Gilbey

238

Americano: will anyone miss the Boomers?

239

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

240

Coffee House Shots: who really runs No.10?

241

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

242

The Book Club: A Brief History of the Aphorism

243

Quite right!: should Rachel Reeves go?

244

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

245

Nicotine pouches: solution or smokescreen?

246

Holy Smoke: Trump highlights the persecution of Christians in Nigeria

247

Coffee House Shots: Budget booze from Disraeli to Reeves

248

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

249

The Book Club: The Decadence

250

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

251

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

252

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

253

Holy Smoke: is the Anglican Communion dead?

254

Coffee House Shots: why Britain needs more Yimbys

255

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

256

Book Club: Ben Myers on Kinski

257

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

258

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

259

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

260

Americano: Alan Dershowitz on Epstein & the client list

261

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

262

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

263

The Book Club: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

264

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

265

Reality Check: Britain's stats have become dangerously unreliable

266

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

267

Holy Smoke: have the culture wars gone spiritual?

268

Coffee House Shots: what Trump II can teach Britain

269

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

270

Book Club: Graham Robb

271

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

272

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

273

Americano: James Orr on J.D. Vance

274

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

275

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

276

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

277

Book Club: Comet in Moominland turns 80

278

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

279

Speaker series: Piers Morgan – Woke is Dead

280

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

281

Holy Smoke: how did faith shape Thatcher?

282

Americano: will peace in Ukraine elude Trump?

283

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

284

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

285

Book Club: Peter James

286

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

287

Spectator Out Loud: Best of Notes on...

288

Americano: is Trump on a roll?

289

Table Talk: Gyles Brandreth

290

Coffee House Shots: Thatcher & Reagan's special relationship

291

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

292

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

293

Quite right!: was Cameron wrong about China?

294

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

295

Americano: Trump's war on the cartels

296

Coffee House Shots: who is the greatest ever conservative?

297

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

298

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

299

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

300

The Book Club: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language

301

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

302

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

303

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

304

Speaker series: Jeffrey Archer – End Game

305

Coffee House Shots: what next for the British right?

306

Holy Smoke: the first female Archbishop of Canterbury

307

Book Club: Philippa Gregory

308

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

309

Quite right!: is Labour 'racist' too?

310

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

311

Coffee House Shots: Shabana Mahmood in conversation with Michael Gove

312

Americano: is James Comey going to jail?

313

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

314

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

315

Coffee House Shots: Michael Gove interviews Steve Reed

316

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

317

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

318

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

319

Americano: how scary is China's military?

320

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

321

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

322

Coffee House Shots: should Britain recognise Palestine?

323

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

324

Book Club: Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers

325

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

326

Table Talk: Raymond Blanc

327

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

328

Americano: what’s driving political violence?

329

Holy Smoke: the next Archbishop of Canterbury

330

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

331

Americano: Eyewitness – inside the shooting of Charlie Kirk

332

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

333

Book Club: Andrew Bayliss

334

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

335

Americano: how authoritarian is Trump 2.0?

336

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

337

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

338

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

339

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

340

The Book Club: Lea Ypi

341

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

342

Americano: do mass shootings begin online?

343

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

344

Holy Smoke: the Twelve Churches that made Christianity

345

Coffee House Shots: why Angela Rayner is so iconic

346

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

347

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

348

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

349

Coffee House Shots: is Britain becoming more sectarian?

350

Coffee House Shots: Farage finally unveils his deportation plan

351

Americano: how progressivism killed American Protestantism

352

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

353

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

354

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

355

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

356

Book Club Live: Max Hastings

357

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

358

Americano: did Putin get the upper hand in Alaska?

359

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

360

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

361

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

362

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

363

Book Club: Joanna Pocock

364

Table Talk: Brett Graham

365

Americano: what's the matter with Candace Owens?

366

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

367

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

368

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

369

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

370

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

371

Book Club: Nicola Barker

372

Americano: Trump, MAGA and US foreign policy

373

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

374

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

375

Holy Smoke: Massacres in Syria and the Congo

376

Coffee House Shots: the Online Safety Act vs free speech

377

Americano: Lionel Shriver on Trump’s second term

378

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

379

Book Club: Gary Shteyngart

380

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

381

Table Talk: Charlotte Ivers

382

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

383

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

384

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

385

Americano: did Condé Nast shape the world?

386

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

387

Book Club: Frances Wilson

388

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

389

Americano: is Epstein the new Russiagate?

390

Americano: will AI have rights?

391

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

392

Coffee House Shots Live: are the Tories toast?

393

Americano: Trump – the conventional foreign policy President?

394

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

395

The Book Club: Irvine Welsh on the new Trainspotting sequel

396

Table Talk: Candice Chung

397

Holy Smoke Live: Recovering the Sacred

398

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

399

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

400

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

401

The Book Club: M. John Harrison

402

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

403

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

404

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

405

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

406

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

407

Book Club: Karin Slaughter

408

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

409

Table Talk: Thomasina Miers, co-founder of Wahaca

410

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

411

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

412

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

413

Americano: how did Zohran Mamdani win?

414

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

415

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

416

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

417

Holy Smoke: why are young Christians returning to tradition?

418

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

419

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

420

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

421

The Book Club: William Dalrymple

422

Table Talk: Nadine Dorries

423

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

424

Book Club, from the archives: Frederick Forsyth

425

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

426

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

427

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

428

The Book Club: Lucy Mangan

429

Holy Smoke: a Jewish guide to arguing

430

Americano: left-wing violence is being normalised

431

Holy Smoke: finding spiritual treasure in César Franck

432

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

433

Americano: did the swamp drain Elon Musk?

434

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

435

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

436

The Book Club: Alice Loxton

437

Table Talk: Jun Tanaka

438

Americano: America's white guilt hangover

439

Holy Smoke: is God an Englishman?

440

Coffee House Shots: should cannabis be decriminalised?

441

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

442

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

443

Americano: what does Sam Altman want?

444

Book Club: Robert Macfarlane

445

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

446

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

447

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

448

Women With Balls, from the archives: Jo Coburn

449

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

450

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

451

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

452

Low Life: The Spectator columns of Jeremy Clarke

453

Table Talk: Daria Lavelle, author of 'Aftertaste'

454

Americano: was Zbigniew Brzezinski a Cold War prophet?

455

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

456

Coffee House Shots: should Kemi Badenoch go?

457

Americano: what is Trump doing in the Middle East?

458

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

459

The Book Club: Julie Bindel

460

Americano: how to revive the American mind

461

Americano: is the trade deal a coup for Starmer?

462

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

463

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

464

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

465

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

466

The Book Club: The Making of William Shakespeare

467

Table Talk: Mary-Ellen McTague

468

A compilation of Chinese Whispers: understanding China

469

Holy Smoke: who is likely to succeed Francis?

470

Coffee House Shots: is Reform unstoppable?

471

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

472

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

473

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

474

The Book Club: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

475

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

476

Women With Balls: Kirsty Wark

477

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

478

Coffee House Shots: John Curtice on the local elections

479

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

480

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

481

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

482

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

483

Women With Balls: Deborah Mattinson

484

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

485

Coffee House Shots: How the Liberal Democrats conquered Middle England

486

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

487

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

488

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

489

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

490

Book Club: Philippe Sands

491

Americano: Trump v Harvard

492

Women With Balls: Lindsey Hilsum

493

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

494

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

495

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

496

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

497

The Book Club: What Is Free Speech?

498

Americano: has trump stopped the oligarchy?

499

Table Talk: Gok Wan

500

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

501

Women With Balls: Katie Lam

502

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

503

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

504

Americano: Trump's tariffs – madman or mastermind?

505

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

506

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

507

The Book Club: Joe Dunthorne

508

Holy Smoke: the tin ear of Justin Welby

509

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

510

Women With Balls: Kim Leadbeater

511

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

512

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

513

Holy Smoke: who is actually running the Catholic Church?

514

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

515

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

516

The Book Club: Francesca Simon

517

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

518

Table Talk: Loyd Grossman

519

Chinese Whispers: from Chimerica to Cold War II

520

Women With Balls: Caroline Lucas

521

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

522

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

523

Americano: has Putin played Trump?

524

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

525

The Book Club: Who is Government?

526

Women With Balls: Miatta Fahnbulleh

527

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

528

Coffee House Shots: is Keir Starmer a Tory?

529

Americano: can Trump survive a recession?

530

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

531

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

532

The Book Club: A Publisher's Memoir

533

Table Talk: Ash Sarkar

534

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

535

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

536

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

537

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

538

Women With Balls: Julia Lopez

539

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

540

The Book Club: Michael Wolff

541

Americano: the case for energy humanism

542

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

543

Coffee House Shots Live: A Look To The Year Ahead

544

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

545

Women With Balls: Alexandra Shulman, former Vogue Editor

546

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

547

The Book Club: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

548

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

549

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

550

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

551

Americano: was 'free trade' really working?

552

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

553

Coffee House Shots: How the Whips' office really works

554

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

555

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

556

The Book Club: The World in the Ocean

557

Americano: Rob Henderson on Musk, monogamy & meritocracy

558

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

559

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

560

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

561

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

562

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

563

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

564

Book Club: Radiohead's Colin Greenwood

565

Americano: could Trump target Britain with tariffs?

566

Table Talk: Groove Armada's Andy Cato

567

Chinese Whispers: Have America's chips controls backfired?

568

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

569

Coffee House Shots: The inside story of Labour under Starmer

570

Women With Balls: Kay Burley, from the archives

571

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

572

Americano: Will Trump make Gaza great again?

573

The Book Club: Under A Metal Sky

574

Coffee House Shots: Reform in 'poll' position

575

Americano: are Trump's tariffs really that bad?

576

Table Talk: Jeremy Chan

577

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

578

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

579

Americano: are the Democrats paralysed?

580

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

581

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

582

The Book Club: The Surreal Joys of Father Ted

583

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

584

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

585

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

586

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

587

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

588

Women With Balls: Rachael Maskell

589

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

590

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

591

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

592

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

593

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

594

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

595

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

596

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

597

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

598

The Book Club: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost

599

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

600

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

601

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

602

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

603

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

604

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

605

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

606

The Book Club: Rachel Cooke

607

Coffee House Shots: Farage vs Musk

608

Women With Balls: Sarah Storey

609

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

610

Table Talk: 'Caviar Queen', Laura King

611

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

612

Coffee House Shots: is 2025 Farage’s year?

613

The Book Club: Orhan Pamuk

614

Americano: what will Jimmy Carter be remembered for?

615

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

616

Coffee House Shots: why 2025 could redefine politics

617

Americano: did 2024 save the American dream?

618

Book Club, from the archives: Annie Nightingale

619

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

620

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

621

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

622

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

623

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

624

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

625

Coffee House Shots: Year in Review 2024

626

Women With Balls: Maureen Lipman

627

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

628

The Book Club: Chris Ware

629

Table Talk: Elif Shafak

630

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

631

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

632

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

633

Americano: has Trump already become President?

634

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

635

The Book Club: Daniel Tammet

636

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

637

Chinese Whispers: Xi Jinping's PLA purges

638

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

639

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

640

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

641

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

642

The Book Club: Jonathan Coe

643

Table Talk: Richard Madeley

644

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

645

Innovator of the Year Awards: The winners

646

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

647

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

648

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

649

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

650

Holy Smoke: should assisted dying be legalised?

651

The Book Club: Nick Harkaway

652

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

653

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

654

Women With Balls: Claire Ainsley

655

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

656

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

657

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

658

The Book Club: Josh Cohen

659

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

660

Table Talk: Julian Metcalfe, founder of Itsu

661

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

662

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

663

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

664

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

665

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

666

The Book Club: Michael Moorcock

667

Americano: can Trump really end the war in Ukraine?

668

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

669

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

670

Americano: will Trump make good on his election promises?

671

Holy Smoke: Did Christianity create secular humanism?

672

Americano: are we about to see Trump unleashed?

673

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

674

Women With Balls: Shivani Raja

675

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

676

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

677

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

678

Table Talk: Terry Wiggins, Parliament Chef

679

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

680

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

681

Americano: America's impossible election choice

682

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

683

Coffee House Shots: Badenoch wins, what next?

684

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

685

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

686

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

687

The Book Club: John Suchet

688

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

689

Chinese Whispers: is China in decline?

690

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

691

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

692

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

693

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

694

Women With Balls: Daisy Cooper

695

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

696

Americano: is Labour interfering in the US election?

697

The Book Club: Rachel Clarke

698

Table Talk: Tim Spector

699

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

700

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

701

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

702

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

703

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

704

Americano: could the Catholic vote decide the US election?

705

Book Club: Sue Prideaux

706

Americano: which campaign has the better ground game?

707

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

708

Women With Balls: Tracy-Ann Oberman

709

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

710

Americano: should a true populist not support Trump?

711

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

712

The Book Club: Alan Johnson

713

Table Talk: Claire Dinhut

714

Eylon Levy: is the world still with Israel?

715

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

716

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

717

Americano: Could America go to war with Iran?

718

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

719

The Book Club: Malcolm Gladwell

720

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

721

Americano: what happens if the election is a tie?

722

Chinese Whispers: will AI be the next arms race?

723

Americano: could Pennsylvania decide the US election?

724

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

725

Women With Balls: Bridget Phillipson, live at Labour conference

726

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

727

The Book Club: Alan Garner

728

Table Talk: Charlie Bigham

729

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

730

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

731

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

732

The Book Club: Lindsey Hilsum

733

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

734

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

735

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

736

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

737

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

738

Women With Balls: Lucy Powell

739

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

740

Book Club: Craig Brown

741

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

742

Table Talk: Simon Raymonde

743

Americano: Has everyone got election fatigue?

744

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

745

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

746

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

747

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

748

The Book Club: Amy Jeffs

749

Americano: Will Kamala actually build the wall?

750

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

751

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

752

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

753

Women With Balls: Dame Karen Pierce, from the archives

754

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

755

Book Club: Ian Sansom, from the archives

756

Table Talk: Will Beckett

757

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

758

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

759

Americano: Live from the DNC

760

The Edition: All hail Harris!

761

Book Club: Carlo Rovelli, from the archives

762

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

763

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

764

Women With Balls: Kemi Badenoch, from the archives

765

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

766

Americano: is Elon Musk a great man of history?

767

The Edition: Power play

768

Book Club: Adam Higginbotham

769

Table Talk: Romy Gill

770

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

771

The Edition: why Britain riots

772

The Book Club: Nathan Thrall

773

Chinese Whispers: how oil became the latest food scandal

774

Americano: How long will Kamalamania last?

775

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

776

Women With Balls: Rachel Reeves, from the archives

777

The Edition: Keir Starmer’s plan to soften Brexit

778

The Book Club: David Baddiel

779

Table Talk: with Fred Smith

780

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

781

Americano: Will Kamala's campaign implode?

782

The Edition: the curious rise of Kamala Harris

783

Book Club: Neil Jordan

784

Chinese Whispers: why China loves Taylor Swift

785

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

786

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

787

The Edition: is Donald Trump now unstoppable?

788

The Book Club: Collected Poems of Roger McGough

789

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

790

Americano: Why did the Secret Service fail Donald Trump?

791

Americano: Trump shot – what next?

792

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

793

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

794

The Edition: Keir's reformation

795

The Book Club: Thom Gunn's Cool Queer Life

796

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

797

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

798

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

799

Women With Balls: Sophie Winkleman

800

The Edition: the reckoning

801

Book Club: Kathleen Jamie

802

Table Talk: Sir David Hempleman-Adams

803

Holy Smoke: Walsingham and the musical grief of the Reformation

804

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

805

Americano: Biden's debate disaster

806

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

807

The Book Club: Åsne Seierstad

808

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

809

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

810

Americano: how to save liberalism

811

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

812

The Book Club: Mark Bostridge

813

Table Talk: Hadley Freeman

814

Americano: is anti-white racism tearing America apart?

815

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

816

Women With Balls: Harriet Harman

817

The Edition: can Macron still outplay Le Pen?

818

The Book Club: Marlon James

819

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

820

Americano: how can you stop Donald Trump?

821

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

822

Women With Balls: Nickie Aiken

823

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

824

The Edition: The Farage factor

825

The Book Club: Richard Flanagan

826

Table Talk: Theo Randall

827

Women With Balls: Claudia Mendoza

828

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

829

Americano: Trump found guilty but will it matter?

830

Americano: John Mearsheimer on Ukraine, Gaza & escalation dominance

831

The Edition: Wannabes

832

The Book Club: The legacy of Franz Kafka

833

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

834

Chinese Whispers: Life in a changing China

835

Americano: Would a conviction hurt Trump?

836

Americano: What is Trump’s new foreign policy?

837

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

838

Americano: Why is Biden so unpopular?

839

The Edition: Rishi Sunak’s election gamble

840

The Book Club: Conn Iggulden

841

Table Talk: Tim Hayward

842

Americano: is Biden losing the swing states?

843

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

844

Women With Balls: the Shabana Mahmood Edition

845

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

846

Americano: Who could be Trump's VP?

847

The Book Club: Olivia Laing

848

Chinese Whispers: China's vendetta against Nato

849

Americano: Should America have a Monarch?

850

Americano: What's this revolution really about?

851

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

852

Women With Balls: Lisa Cameron

853

The Edition: how universities raised a generation of activists

854

The Book Club: Jackie Kay

855

Table Talk: Michael Zee

856

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

857

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

858

Americano: is the West heading towards annihilation?

859

The Edition: is Rishi ready for the rebels?

860

The Book Club: Ariane Bankes

861

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

862

Chinese Whispers: How China is quietly cutting out American tech

863

Americano: does America run Britain?

864

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

865

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

866

The Edition: China's global spy network

867

The Book Club: Kathryn Hughes

868

Table Talk: Joel Golby

869

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

870

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

871

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

872

The Edition: the dangers of political prosecution

873

The Book Club: Percival Everett

874

Liz Truss on who really runs Britain

875

Chinese Whispers: Was Marco Polo a 'sexpat'?

876

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

877

Americano: will abortion decide the 2024 election?

878

Women With Balls: Laura Farris

879

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

880

Americano: why did Mike Johnson snub David Cameron?

881

The Book Club: Dorian Lynskey

882

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

883

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

884

The Edition: The Starmer supremacy

885

The Book Club: Annie Jacobsen

886

Chinese Whispers: what China's hackers want

887

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

888

Americano: what's happening in the Darien Gap?

889

Women With Balls: Anne Jenkin

890

The Edition: Easter special

891

The Book Club: Viet Thanh Nguyen

892

Table Talk: Gennaro Contaldo

893

Americano: why do Trump’s enemies always overreach?

894

Americano: is America in decline?

895

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

896

Americano: Trump vs luxury beliefs

897

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

898

The Book Club: Joel Morris

899

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

900

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

901

Americano: will America ban TikTok?

902

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

903

Holy Smoke: how the Church of England patronises African Christians

904

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

905

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

906

Americano: power, politics and the grid

907

The Book Club: Lauren Oyler

908

Table Talk: Alex Jackson

909

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

910

Americano: How will RFK Junior change the 2024 election?

911

The Edition: what to expect from a second Trump term

912

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

913

The Book Club: Peter Pomerantsev

914

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

915

Americano: Will Tech decide the US election?

916

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

917

Women With Balls: Thangam Debbonaire

918

The Edition: plan Bibi

919

The Book Club: Colum McCann

920

Americano: A Donald Trump debate

921

Americano: are pollsters underestimating Joe Biden?

922

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

923

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

924

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

925

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

926

Americano: human rights vs democracy

927

The Edition: why Britain stopped working

928

The Book Club: Tom Chatfield

929

Americano: should Julian Assange be extradited to America?

930

Chinese Whispers: what the Messi row reveals about Chinese football

931

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

932

Americano: What do Republicans think of Lord Cameron?

933

Women With Balls: Justine Greening

934

The Edition: Is Nato ready for war with Russia?

935

What happened to the Democratic Party?

936

Which way will the swing states go?

937

The Book Club: Chris Bryant

938

Table Talk: Professor Charles Spence

939

Americano: how bad is the border crisis?

940

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

941

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

942

The Edition: inside the plot to take down Rishi Sunak

943

The Book Club: Paula Byrne

944

Americano: Is 2024 a ‘flip election’?

945

Chinese Whispers: why do people join the CCP?

946

Americano: can Trump ever get a fair trial?

947

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

948

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

949

Women With Balls: Gina Miller

950

The Edition: how the Tories gave up on liberty

951

The Book Club: Sathnam Sanghera

952

Could Taylor Swift swing the election?

953

Table Talk: Edward Stourton

954

Action Men: how the porn industry targets children

955

Americano: will Jon Stewart still be funny?

956

Spectator Out Loud: Richard Dawkins, Douglas Murray and Cindy Yu

957

The Edition: inside the SNP’s secret state

958

The Book Club: Adam Phillips

959

Americano: What went wrong with Ron?

960

Chinese Whispers: was China's economic boom 'made in America'?

961

Action Men: Why trans activists are intellectually incoherent

962

Americano: Is New Hampshire a Potemkin primary?

963

Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson, Robert Hardman & Michael Simmons

964

Women With Balls: Theo Clarke

965

The Edition: how Britain sobered up

966

The Book Club: Rebecca Boyle

967

Table Talk: Alexander Collier

968

Holy Smoke: Gay blessings and theological porn

969

Why we don't need 'male feminists'

970

Spectator Out Loud: Cindy Yu, Mary Wakefield and Natasha Feroze

971

The Edition: why Trump can't be stopped

972

The Book Club: Hadley Freeman

973

Americano: Do Trump’s Republican rivals have any hope?

974

Chinese Whispers: What lies at the root of the India-China rivalry?

975

Why Sturgeon’s trans bill threatens women

976

Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, James Heale and Theo Hobson

977

Americano: has Claudine Gay wrecked Harvard?

978

The Edition: Putin’s ‘peace’ is a partitioned Ukraine

979

The Book Club: Anne Applebaum

980

Table Talk: Philip Hensher

981

The Book Club: Robert Webb

982

Women With Balls: Susan Hall

983

The Book Club: Speeches that shape the world

984

Defending science from ‘cancel culture’

985

Table Talk: Michel Roux Jr

986

Spectator Out Loud: Peter Hitchens, Lionel Shriver, Mary Wellesley and more

987

The Edition: Christmas Special 2023

988

The Book Club: Pen Vogler

989

Chinese Whispers: who will be Taiwan's next President?

990

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Michael Simmons and Mary Wakefield

991

Women With Balls: Jacqui Smith

992

The Edition: does Keir Starmer stack up?

993

The 26 million: how to care for people living with long-term health conditions

994

The Book Club: Andrew Lycett

995

Table Talk: Tara Wigley

996

Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Lionel Shriver and Marcus Walker

997

The Edition: carbon capture

998

The Book Club: Good Scammer

999

Chinese Whispers: Is Mandarin bad for China?

1000

Spectator Out Loud: David Swift, Mary Wakefield & Peter Hitchens