All Episodes
The Edition — 412 episodes
Will Andy drill deep for oil & gas – and is Bayeux in Britain as good as it gets?
Has Reform UK lost its magic? – and why Middlesbrough’s young men don’t care
How the blob broke teaching – and can the Sussexes redeem themselves?
Maureen Lipman on Britain’s anti-Semitism crisis – and has the West lost the will to defend itself?
‘It’s a cesspool!’ — What’s going wrong in Britain’s universities?
The real Rod Liddle: Michael Gove, Toby Young & Freddy Gray on what it was like to know him
‘It’s very easy to win an election – here’s how': Rory Sutherland on private schools, early election & death doulas
‘Chaotic and ruthless’ – Peter Hitchens & Camilla Tominey on Burnham's first week
Can Burnham remake Britain? – with Antony Beevor
Has Farage lost control? – and the battle for Britain's pubs
Labour's 'total failure' on defence – and why Boris shouldn’t come back
Burnham's coronation – but does he have a plan for power? – with Katie Perrior
Was Brexit worth it – and can Burnham save Britain? – with Tom McTague
'We're only months away from the first political assassination by drone' – with Francis Dearnley
The 'beautiful & ironic symmetry' of Reform vs Restore – with Elizabeth Day
The Pope's AI warning – and how Restore split the right, again
Why Labour’s fate will be decided in the Strait of Hormuz
‘This is deranged!’: Labour’s civil war is distracting from the real crisis
Starmergeddon? How the locals will change Labour – with Alice Loxton & Lionel Barber
‘Bring back shame!’ – is Britain’s social contract broken? | with Trevor Phillips
‘Keir Starmer has become Boris Johnson!’ with Prue Leith & Peter Frankopan
Trump vs the Pope: Rowan Williams on America's 'demonic' political climate
Is Britain losing its sense of fairness?
Is politics becoming more religious? With Tom Holland & Jonathan Sumption
Does British politics have a problem with the 'omnicause'?
Does Nigel Farage really want to be Prime Minister?
America's Iran gamble – why the Royals could be Britain's Trump card
Iran: Why Trump's ultimate target in this war is China – with Maurice Glasman
Is Labour too close to the City – with Lionel Shriver & Robert Hardman
Britain is not ready for war – and Labour isn’t doing enough
Labour turns on Starmer – inside the collapse, with Guto Harri, Tim Shipman & Toby Young
AI will bring down Keir Starmer – if Peter Mandelson doesn’t first
‘No-one voted for them’ – Douglas Murray on the men actually running Britain
Trump's Arctic madness, political treachery & banning social media
Iran’s useful idiots, Gordon Brown’s second term & the Right’s race obsession
Stormy seas, Trump’s revolution & Gen Z’s sex recession
The 'boring twenties', population decline & happy new year
From Porn Britannia to Political Chaos: The Spectator’s Year in Review
From The Queen to Bonnie Blue: The Spectator’s Christmas Edition 2025
Benefits Britain, mental health & what’s the greatest artwork of the 21st Century?
Defending marriage, broken Budgets & the 'original sin’ of industrialisation
Labour's toxic budget, Zelensky in trouble & Hitler's genitalia
BBC in crisis, the Wes Streeting plot & why 'flakes' are the worst
Trump’s gilded age, the ‘hell’ of polyamory & is Polanski Britain’s Mamdani?
Embracing the occult, going underground & lost languages
Left-wing Ultras, Reform intellectuals & capitalist sex robots
Chinese spies, Vance’s rise & is French parenting supreme?
Jewish fear, 'the elimination of motherhood' & remembering Jilly Cooper
Kemi's fightback, the cult of Thatcher & debunking British myths
Labour’s Terminator, Silicon Valley’s ‘Antichrist’ obsession & can charity shops survive?
Weimar Britain, the war on science & are you a competitive reader?
Quite Right! Episode 2
Royal treatment, neurodiverse history & is everyone on Ozempic?
Introducing... Quite Right!
Reform’s camp following, masculine rage & why do people make up languages?
The coming crash, a failing foster system & ‘DeathTok’
Putin’s trap, the decline of shame & holiday rental hell
Border lands, 200 years of British railways & who are the GOATs?
Reform’s motherland, Meloni’s Italian renaissance & the adults learning to swim
Under CTRL, the Epping migrant protests & why is ‘romantasy’ so popular?
Soul suckers of private equity, Douglas Murray on Epstein & are literary sequels ‘lazy’?
How the Bank broke Britain, Zelensky’s choice & the joys of mudlarking
Keir's peer purge, how to pick an archbishop & is AI ruining sport?
Claws out for Keir, Mamdani’s poisoned apple & are most wedding toasts awful?
War and peace, why restaurants are going halal & the great brown furniture transfer
Starmer at sea, Iran on the brink & the importance of shame
Porn Britannia, Xi’s absence & no more lonely hearts?
Nigel wants YOU, secularism vs spirituality & how novel is experimental fiction?
End of the rainbow, rising illiteracy & swimming pool etiquette
The real Brexit betrayal, bite-sized history & is being a bridesmaid brutal?
Britain's billionaire exodus, Michael Gove interviews Shabana Mahmood & Hampstead's 'terf war'
Scuzz Nation, the death of English literature & are you a bad house guest?
Chambers of horrors, the ‘Dubai-ification’ of London & the enduring obsession with Diana
See change, A.I. ghouls & long live the long lunch!
Easter special: assisted dying, ‘bunny ebola’ & how do you eat your creme egg?
Trump shock, cousin marriage & would you steal from a restaurant?
Cruel Labour, the decline of sacred spaces & Clandon Park’s controversial restoration
The age of the strongman, Tesla under attack & matinee revivals
Labour’s growing pains, survival of the hottest & murder most fascinating
Massacre of the innocents, saving endangered languages & Gen Z’s ‘Boom Boom’ aesthetic
Why Ukraine's minerals matter, the NHS's sterilisation problem & remembering the worst poet in history
Inside Nigel’s gang, my day as a ‘missing person’ & how to save James Bond
New world disorder, cholesterol pseudoscience vs scepticism & the magic of Dickens
Britain’s bureaucratic bloat, debating surrogacy & is smoking ‘sexy’?
Labour's Irish insurgent, Germany's 'firewall' falls & finding joy in obituaries
Migration mystery, Ipso’s trans muddle & are you a ‘trad dad’?
Industry tragedy, Trump vs the Pope & the depressing reality of sex parties
Empire of Trump, the creep of child-free influencers & is fact-checking a fiction?
The truth about grooming gangs, 'why I'm voting for the AfD' & exploring YouTube rabbit holes
The West's right turn, Michael Gove interviews Jordan Peterson & the ADHD trap
Best of 2024 with Dominic Sandbrook, Mary Beard and Harriet Harman
Christmas Special 2024 with Rod Liddle, Lionel Shriver, Matthew Parris and Mary Wakefield
How twee triumphed, Graham Brady on Tory turmoil & celebrating pigs in blankets
SAS betrayal, the battle for Odesa & in defence of film flops
Streeting vs Starmer, medical misinformation & the surprising history of phallic graffiti
Elon's America, Welby's legacy & celebrating Beaujolais Day
Trump's comeback, Labour's rural divide, and World of Warcraft
Team Trump, astrologers versus pollsters & debating history
Cambridge in crisis, Trump’s wicked humour & the beauty of AI ceramics
Reeves's gambit, a debate on assisted dying & queer life in postwar Britain
Labour’s China pivot, Yvette Cooper’s extremism crackdown & the ladies who punch
Israel's revenge, farewell Fraser & the demise of invitations
Tory wars, the reality of trail hunting & is Sally Rooney-mania over?
Farage's plan, the ethics of euthanasia & Xi's football failure
Trump’s debate woes, how to catch a paedo & the politics of the hotel breakfast buffet
Miliband's net zero madness, meet Reform’s new poster boy & the plight of the restaurant critic
Alt reich: Is Germany's far right about to go mainstream?
All hail Harris! Can Kamala bluff her way to the top?
Power play: Zelensky's plan for his Russian conquests
Why Britain riots
Keir Starmer’s plan to soften Brexit
The curious rise of Kamala Harris
Is Donald Trump now unstoppable?
Keir's reformation: Labour's radical plans
The reckoning: it's payback time for voters
Downfall: how Nigel Farage became the left's greatest weapon
Lawfare: how Starmer will govern through the courts
Macron's game: can he still outplay Le Pen?
The Farage factor
Wannabes: are any of them ready?
The deluge: Rishi Sunak’s election gamble
Veep show: who will Trump pick for his running mate?
Drama students: how universities raised a generation of activists
Survival plan: is Rishi ready for the rebels?
The Xi files: how China spies
The dangers of political prosecution
Will Biden support Ukraine’s attacks on Russia?
The Starmer supremacy
Easter special: how forgiveness was forgotten
War on words: is Scotland ready for its new hate crime law?
Will the Red Wall revolt split the right?
Trump II: Back with a Vengeance
Plan Bibi: stalemate suits Netanyahu
Why Britain stopped working
Is Nato ready for war with Russia?
Inside the plot to take down Rishi Sunak
How the Tories gave up on liberty
McMafia: inside the SNP’s secret state
How Britain sobered up
Why Trump can’t be stopped
Putin’s ‘peace’ is a partitioned Ukraine
Christmas Special 2023
Does Keir Starmer stack up?
Carbon capture: how China cornered the green market
Israel's challenge
Back to the future: Sunak's big gamble
Keeping the peace: the politics of policing protest
The Covid farce
Identity crisis
New world disorder
Unholy war
Battle begins
Judgment call: the case for leaving the ECHR
Italy's new wave: Europe's escalating migrant crisis
Bombshell: Why aren't we giving Ukraine what it needs?
Broken Britain: what went wrong?
India's century: Sunak's plan for a new Indo-Pacific alliance
Trumpvision: he's making America watch again
Degrees of failure: is university still worth it?
Country strife: the covert campaign against field sports
Supercops: the return of tough policing
Bankrolled: Labour’s new paymasters
Road rage: the great motorist rebellion has begun
Barbie's world: the normalisation of cosmetic surgery
Why Europe riots
After Putin: how nervous should we be?
Home truths: the crushing reality of the mortgage crisis
Get Rishi: the plot against the PM
Harry’s crusade: the Prince vs the press
Red Rishi
Ukraine's next move
Migration nation: Brexit has meant more immigration than ever
Trump's second act: why he can still win, in spite of everything
A King in a hurry: what will Charles III's reign look like?
The Starmtroopers: Labour's new recruits
Womb service: the politics of surrogacy
The new elite: the rise of the progressive aristocracy
The lost shepherds
Macron's last adventure: the President vs the public
Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown
Crash test: the new era of economic uncertainty
Don vs Ron: the fight for the American right
Is Putin winning?
Farewell to arms: Britain's depleted military
After Sturgeon
The haunting of Rishi Sunak
How will it end?
Rolling in it: the return of Tory sleaze
Gender wars: the Union's new battle line
Who's afraid of Keir Starmer?
Six more years: how long can Biden go on?
Christmas Special
War of the Windsors
The new vandals
The red line: Biden and Xi's secret Ukraine talks
The squeeze: how long will the pain last?
Midterm madness
At sea: can Sunak navigate the migrant crisis?
Is Rishi ready?
The lady vanishes
Kremlin crack-up: who's out to get Putin?
Crash course: how the Truss revolution came off the road
What crisis?
Cornered: what will Putin do now?
Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022
Buckle up: The Liz Truss era begins
Drama queens: the return of Harry and Meghan
Lockdown files: what we weren't told
Prima donna: is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?
Water woes: who’s to blame for the shortages?
China's baby bust
Rishi's mad dash
Trump's Return
Blue Murder
After Boris
Cold War
Putin's billions
The death of political authority
How the rebels plan to finish off Boris
The quiet radicalism of Elizabeth II
Inside Taiwan’s plan to thwart Beijing
Zelensky's choice
Can Keir escape?
Boris’s plans for a new Brexit clash
Can Elon Musk take on the tech censors?
How much longer can Boris Johnson keep going?
Cross to bear
The politics of war crimes
Biden’s war
Turkey's dilemma
The Western Front
Border farce
Putin’s rage
Vlad the Invader
Theatre of war
Boris’s bunker: the PM’s defensive strategy
Frozen: can China escape its zero-Covid trap?
The phoney war
The collapse: how Red Wall MPs turned on Boris
Is it over?
Rip it up: the vaccine passport experiment needs to end
The Edition Christmas Special
Deaths of despair: how Britain became Europe’s drugs capital
Hospital pass: The NHS is on life support
The Covid revolts: Europe’s new wave of unrest
Toil and trouble: Europe faces a new form of warfare
Court of Chaos: Boris’s style of government isn’t working for him — or his country
Superbad: Joe Biden’s plummeting presidency
Cop out: Boris’s battle to save the climate summit
Plan Z: the rise of Éric Zemmour
Baby doomers: why are couples putting the planet ahead of parenthood?
Power grab: who’s hoarding all the gas?
Running on empty: the government is out of fuel – and ideas
New world order: can Britain, America and Australia contain China?
Payday: who’s afraid of rising wages?
Assetocracy: the inversion of the welfare state
Top dog: how have animals captured politics?
Prison island: when will Australia escape its zero Covid trap?
America abandoned this fight before the Afghans did
The cost of net zero
The heist: nobody is safe from Russia’s digital pirates
Turning the tide: how to deal with Britain’s new migrant crisis
Party time: what is the cost of freedom?
Nanny Boris: the PM’s alarming flight from liberalism
How China bought Cambridge
Staged: a handful of VIP events is no substitute for normality
The house mafia: the scandal of new builds
The new leviathan: the big state is back
The third wave: it’s here – but it shouldn’t delay our reopening
Broken Trust: the crisis at the heart of the National Trust
Whodunnit? The lab leak theory is looking increasingly plausible
TikTok intifada: what's the role of new media in old conflicts?
The great pretender: Nicola Sturgeon's independence bluff
The China model: why is the West imitating Beijing?
The nightmare: Boris’s battles are just beginning
Biden's Rodeo: How were his first 100 days?
The green games: Boris's plan to rebrand Britain
Roadmap to nowhere: will life ever return to normal?
The fightback: can the West take on China?
Europe's panic: what's behind their vaccine meltdown?
Unopposed: Why is Starmer making life easy for the PM?
Battle royal: Harry and Meghan's brand of revenge
Rishi's nightmare: Will inflation crush the recovery?
The break-up: Is Boris about to lose Scotland?
Power jab: the rise of vaccine diplomacy
Papers please: what will immunity passports look like?
Holy Relic: What will be left of the Church after the pandemic?
Vaccine wars: the global battle for a precious resource
Biden time: can he stop America’s ‘uncivil war’?
The tech supremacy: Silicon Valley can no longer conceal its power
A race against time: can the vaccine outpace the virus?
The Christmas Special
Biden's Burden: can he save the free world?
The Sturgeon paradox: how is she so popular?
Aftermath: when will the country truly recover from the virus?
Boris in a spin: can the PM find his way again?
Macron alone: where are France’s allies in the fight against Islamism?
Is this the end for Trumpism?
The long winter – why Covid restrictions could last until April
Xi's world: how Covid has accelerated China's rise
The next president: what would a Joe Biden premiership look like?
Divided nation: will Covid rules tear the country apart?
American meltdown: November's democratic disaster
Closing time: the coming Tory brawl over Covid rules
Where's Boris? A government at sea
Winning shot: how the vaccines race has become a power struggle
The Covid trap: will society ever open up again?
The Trump Show: he could just win again
University Challenge: the next education mess
Here's Nicola: can Boris Johnson stop Scottish independence?
Can London survive coronavirus?
Who is the real Joe Biden?
Putin's plan: how Russia unleashes chaos
The lost boys: is the white working class being left behind?
Magic money: what can possibly go wrong?
Mission Impossible: can Boris Johnson rewire the British government?
The thin blue line: why are relations between police and black youths just so bad?
School's out: the true cost of classroom closures
In defence of liberalism: resisting a new era of intolerance
Our duty to Hong Kong: time to grant citizenship
Escaping the dragon: rethinking our approach to China
Back to Brexit: will the transition be extended?
League of nations: guessing our way out of lockdown
Who can tame the virus?
The way out: what is the Prime Minister's exit strategy?
The 10,000th
Corona wars: will either Trump or Xi win?
Will coronavirus hasten the demise of religion?
Coronomics: how surreal is this economic crash?
The front line: how the NHS is preparing for battle
Lockdown, and the hardships ahead
Oil wars: is this the real threat to the world economy?
Planet Corona: is this the tipping point for globalisation?
Le crunch: the coming Brexit showdown
Here comes Bloomberg: can this billionaire beat Trump?
Marooned: Is Europe's centre-ground shrinking?
Terror cells: have our prisons become finishing schools for extremists?
Done.
Le bromance: is there a new Anglo-French alliance?
Charles's gambit: will slimming down the monarchy save it?
Iran unbowed: Trump's dangerous game in the Middle East
The Edition at Christmas: games, poems, and Christmas pastimes
The Edition at Christmas: the Hong Kong one
The Edition at Christmas: the Trump one
The Edition at Christmas: the Brexit one
Oh yes he did! What will five years of Prime Minister Johnson look like?
Nightmare on Downing St: just how bad would it be?
The final furlong: can Boris make it?
Remain's last stand: can they unite against Boris?
Can Nigel Farage take the Tories to victory?
Who can take Trump on?
A vote is born: how unpredictable is this election?
The last try: will Boris get his election?
Man on wire: can Boris do it?
What happens if there is no deal?
What happened to civilised debate?
Prisoner No. 10: is there any hope for Boris, or Brexit?
Judgment day: are courts taking over politics?
Smash and grab: can the Remain alliance last?
All to play for: Boris Johnson's great election gamble
Battle begins: how will Boris approach immigration?
The new monarchy: can the royal family survive its makeover?
Right and wrong: who are the far right in a changing Europe?
Beaches, Brexit, and Desert Island bores
Showdown: neither Boris nor the EU plans to compromise
Team Boris: what will this unconventional prime minister be like?
What is Watson's new plot to hound Corbyn out?
Can Boris Johnson make Anglo-American relations great again?
A new tune: what is Boris Johnson's plan to reunite Britain?
Trump vs Xi: is the new Cold War hotting up?
Enter Boris: what his premiership will look like
Greenwashed: the strange triumph of eco-Toryism
Taking over: what is awaiting the new prime minister?
Tory scrum: who will emerge from this crowded leadership race?
Corbyn's Brexit mistake: why Labour is being picked apart by new rivals
Time for Boris? He might be the Tories' best hope
Train your brain: can your mind stay young?
Nigel's revenge: will Farage's Brexit Party sink the Tories?
The hit job: the Scruton tapes and the modern art of character assassination
The Easter Special: what does the Notre Dame mean to Catholics?
Macron's reign: how did the President unite France against him?
A losing game: how badly has Brexit damaged the two main parties?
After May: a country in search of leadership
Begging for Brexit: is Brexit a national humiliation?
Brexit Meltdown: could May's deal be revived?
The Woke Corporation: how has campus madness entered the workplace?
Breaking point: can either party survive Brexit?
Centre stage: does the Independent Group have much purpose?
The Corbyn crack-up: is Labour heading for a split?
Have apps ruined romance?
May's last shot: can her Brexit mission succeed?
The war on meat: are vegans winning?
Taking back control: does parliament have a plan for Brexit?
How scared should we be of a no deal Brexit?
Europe's gatecrashers: is the EU one election away from reform?
The Christmas Edition - 2018 Year in Review
What next in the Brexit cliffhanger?
The Corbyn effect: is he to blame for a British cash exodus?
May's legacy: how toxic is her Brexit deal to the Conservative party?
China's world: how dangerous is the ultimate surveillance state?
Brexit is served: Theresa May's Brexit deal is hard to stomach
Europe's empty throne: what happens after the end of the Merkel project?
American Nightmare: is Trump in for a scare at the midterms?
Divide and rule: how has the EU taken control of Brexit?
Death of a dissident: Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state
The Gender Dilemma: have trans rights gone wrong?
All by herself - a Prime Minister abandoned
Time to switch off: are we all helplessly addicted to digital?
Bang! The Tory battle begins
The two Europes: Macron, Salvini, and the battle for a continent
The people vs Brexit: a very elite uprising
When money dies: how bad is Venezuela's hyperinflation?