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Best of the Spectator

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

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

Holy Smoke: who is actually running the Catholic Church?

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

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

The Book Club: Francesca Simon

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

Table Talk: Loyd Grossman

Chinese Whispers: from Chimerica to Cold War II

Women With Balls: Caroline Lucas

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

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

Americano: has Putin played Trump?

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

The Book Club: Who is Government?

Women With Balls: Miatta Fahnbulleh

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

Coffee House Shots: is Keir Starmer a Tory?

Americano: can Trump survive a recession?

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

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

The Book Club: A Publisher's Memoir

Table Talk: Ash Sarkar

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

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

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

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

Women With Balls: Julia Lopez

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

The Book Club: Michael Wolff

Americano: the case for energy humanism

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

Coffee House Shots Live: A Look To The Year Ahead

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

Women With Balls: Alexandra Shulman, former Vogue Editor

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

The Book Club: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

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

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

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

Americano: was 'free trade' really working?

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

Coffee House Shots: How the Whips' office really works

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

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

The Book Club: The World in the Ocean

Americano: Rob Henderson on Musk, monogamy & meritocracy

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

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

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

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