Spectator Australia Podcasts

In praise of the ‘very online right’, with Connor Tomlinson

13 November 2025 4:00 am

The UK conservative political class have not led the public discourse. Instead, they have been dragged, sometimes kicking and screaming,…

Considering calculated risks, with Andrew Hastie

6 November 2025 4:00 am

Right-wing political parties are facing identity crises across the Anglosphere. Reform is pushing the Conservatives to the brink of extinction,…

Being trans is so last year, with Eric Kaufmann

30 October 2025 3:00 am

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young people. Since 2023 both trans and…

How to save Britain, with David Starkey

23 October 2025 4:00 am

Most historical revolutions are sudden and violent. Since 1997, the UK has experienced a ‘slow-burn revolution’, which has completely changed…

Multiculturalism is a delusion, with Harry Markham

16 October 2025 4:00 am

The war in Gaza has revealed some ugly realities of life in modern Britain: antisemitism, the failures of multiculturalism, and…

What Americans really think of Britain, with Ben Leo

9 October 2025 4:00 am

The UK and US have long cherished a ‘special relationship’. However, the countries appear to be diverging down different paths;…

What Charlie Kirk’s death means for America, with Dave Rubin

6 October 2025 4:00 am

Charlie Kirk’s assassination has sparked a global conversation. We have been forced to grapple with issues of free speech, political…

Another heretical conversation with Andrew Gold

25 September 2025 4:00 am

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs. It has never been…

The truth about the war in Gaza

4 September 2025 3:00 am

As October 7 has faded in the public consciousness, a pervasive narrative has taken hold that Israel are the real…

The end of woke, with Andrew Doyle

28 August 2025 4:00 am

On the one hand, the worst excesses of the woke era appear to be behind us. On the other, the…

Smashing gangs and stopping boats, with Patrick Christys

24 July 2025 3:00 am

Many UK politicians think illegal immigration is an unsolvable problem. It’s easier to put illegal migrants in fancy hotels and…

Who is the real Nigel Farage? – Alex Phillips

10 July 2025 3:00 am

The UK is arguably at its lowest ebb. It is beset by a series of existential economic, cultural and social…

The case for fossil fuels, with Alex Epstein

26 June 2025 3:00 am

The UK government is “going for growth” whilst pursuing an aggressive net zero energy policy. Are the two goals compatible?…

All aboard the far-right bandwagon, with Tom Slater

19 June 2025 3:00 am

Keir Starmer’s latest U-turn may be his most consequential. Last Saturday, he announced a national inquiry into the grooming gangs…

Raging against the nanny state, with Chris Snowdon

6 June 2025 3:00 am

The nanny state is on the march across the West, propped up by weak leaders taking their cues from a…

The decline and fall of Australia(?), with Joe Hildebrand

30 May 2025 3:00 am

Greg Sheridan wrote recently that Australia is a nation in decline. Across every indicator you can imagine – economy, living…

The rise of the woke right, with James Lindsay

23 May 2025 3:00 am

When classical liberals and conservatives took the fight to the ‘woke left’, many made the mistake of thinking that victory…

The (not so) lucky country, with Adam Creighton

15 May 2025 3:00 am

Australia has often been called the ‘lucky country’. Today, it faces a series of economic, cultural, and geopolitical challenges, seemingly…

Pondering the big questions, with Sebastian Junger

8 May 2025 3:00 am

One of the tragedies of modernity is how it has stripped away the time (or if we’re being honest, the…

Relaxed and comfortable, with John Howard

1 May 2025 3:00 am

Before he became Australia’s second-longest serving Prime Minister, then Opposition Leader John Howard famously stated that his ambition was for…

Trans women are not women (except in Australia), with Sall Grover

24 April 2025 3:00 am

It says something about the surreal times in which we live that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom found…

Please explain, with Pauline Hanson

17 April 2025 3:00 am

If there’s one theme that cuts across Western politics in 2025, it is the rise of right-wing populist parties and…

Free minds and free markets, with Nick Gillespie

10 April 2025 2:00 am

Freedom is under assault across the West. The US is reverting to 18th century economic protectionism, the UK are jailing…

The coming British civil war, with David Betz

3 April 2025 3:00 am

The UK is in a dark place, but surely it couldn’t reach the point of civil war? Don’t be so…

The shameless cross-promotion episode, with Alex Armstrong

31 March 2025 3:00 am

If you turn on the news in the UK, the chances are the stories will be negative. Mass migration, two-tier…