Starmer’s exit, Burnham’s rise – and the court of King Andy.

Michael and Madeline sit down with Simon Heffer, author of Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, to explore Powell’s legacy.

Keir Starmer’s legacy, Andy Burnham’s next move – and should there be a general election?

The Henry Nowak case, two-tier policing – and what the latest Mandelson files reveal about Labour.

The Peter Murrell scandal and the collapse of the SNP’s moral authority.

Maurice Glasman returns for the second part of his conversation with Michael and Maddie – this time to ask whether the Makerfield by-election could write Labour’s obituary notice.

Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and founder of Blue Labour joins Michael and Maddie to explain why he thinks Keir Starmer’s project was never really Labour at all – and why the party’s working-class traditions have been replaced by progressive liberalism.

Keir Starmer’s leadership is in crisis. As pressure builds on the Prime Minister, Michael and Madeline ask whether Starmer can survive the rebellion now gathering pace in his own party.

Antisemitism in Britain, the government’s response – and where Reform may have gone too far.

Katie Lam is one of the brightest lights of the Conservative party. She joins the podcast to discuss Farage, Jenrick, defection rumours and her interventions on both immigration and the grooming gangs.

The Mandelson row deepens – and a bigger question about Keir Starmer’s judgment and authority.

The Southport inquiry and a deeper question about why Britain’s institutions keep failing to act.

One month on from calling for Keir Starmer's resignation, Anas Sarwar – the leader of Scottish Labour – joins Michael Gove to reflect on British politics ahead of the May elections.

After Nick Timothy’s comments on public prayer in Trafalgar Square caused a political firestorm, Michael and Madeline ask whether Britain can still have an honest debate about faith, free speech and the public square.

After a bruising week in Westminster – from fresh revelations about the Mandelson appointment to renewed scrutiny of the Prime Minister’s governing style – will Labour move to replace Starmer?

Michael and Maddie discuss the escalating crisis in the Middle East and ask a bigger question about Britain’s place in the world – plus, they examine the growing backlash against Ed Miliband’s energy agenda.

Michael and Maddie debate the escalating crisis in Iran and ask whether Donald Trump truly has a strategy – and whether Keir Starmer has one at all.

This is the second part of Michael Gove’s conversation with Munira Mirza. They turn to the question of leadership, and the lessons both Boris and Starmer should learn.

In the first of this two-part interview, Munira reflects on the ‘serious threat’ Labour faces if the Muslim votes flees to the Greens and discusses a looming scandal of potentially similar magnitude to the grooming gangs. 

Michael and Maddie consider Reform UK's succession plan. With Nigel Farage unveiling his new shadow cabinet, who stands ready to inherit the crown?

Michael and Maddie examine the crisis engulfing the Labour party and ask whether Keir Starmer is facing a Boris-style collapse of authority.

Peter Mandelson's fall deepens: this week a story of questionable judgment became a far more serious test of trust at the top of British politics. Has a tawdry association escalated into a question of the national interest?

After the Labour party machine moved to block Andy Burnham from returning to Westminster, is Keir Starmer’s grip beginning to slip?And, with Suella Braverman’s long-anticipated defection to Reform UK, is Gavin Williamson next?

Michael and Maddie ask whether the so-called special relationship between Britain and the United States has finally reached breaking point. And, after Robert Jenrick’s dramatic defection to Reform UK, was his exit from the Conservatives motivated by principle?

Michael and Maddie examine Nadhim Zahawi’s dramatic defection to Reform UK and ask whether it strengthens the party’s insurgent credentials or exposes a deeper strategic mistake. 

This week: Donald Trump’s audacious raid on Venezuela, the scandal surrounding West Midlands Police and the banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, and are weight-loss jabs like Ozempic and Wegovy quietly reshaping society?

In part two, Dominic diagnoses the ‘pre-revolutionary’ mood of British politics, dismisses government promises on immigration as ‘total nonsense’, and delivers a sobering account of why the Conservative party is ‘completely dead’. Dominic also assesses the prospects of Reform and Nigel Farage and warns of an increasingly aggressive establishment response to outsider movements.

In part one, Dominic diagnoses Britain’s institutional decline and takes us inside Whitehall’s ‘heart of darkness’. He explains the ‘madness’ of the Human Rights Act, criticises Boris Johnson’s failure to pursue the mandate he was given, and revisits the government’s handling of Covid.

Michael and Madeline confront the horror of the Bondi Beach massacre and ask why anti-Semitic violence now provokes despair rather than shock.

After a summer in which Nigel Farage seemed to bend the news cycle to his will, Michael and Maddie ask whether the party’s momentum is slipping.

This week: Rachel Reeves reels as Labour’s Budget unravels – and a far-left Life of Brian sequel plays out in Liverpool.

This week: After leaked EHRC guidance threw Labour’s position on biological sex into disarray, Michael and Maddie ask whether Bridget Phillipson is deliberately delaying clarity on the law.

This week: a Commons showdown over asylum, a cold shower for Net Zero orthodoxy and, just because we can sequence Hitler's DNA, should we?

This week: a crisis at the BBC, a crisis of standards in our schools and a crisis in Hollywood over Sydney Sweeney's 'conservatism'.

This week: Rachel Reeves's Budget 'bollocks', the rise of 'nihilistic' violence in the UK, and *the* debate of the week: Halloween vs Bonfire Night.

This week: the great Home Office meltdown and the fury over the collapsed grooming gangs inquiry. Plus, the truth about being a landlord and Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau's 'hard launch'.

This week: the slow-motion disgrace of Prince Andrew, how multiculturalism failed in Birmingham and, as the British Museum attempt to out-glamour the Met Gala, have we reached peak luvvie?

This week: Michael and Maddie turn their sights to Westminster’s latest espionage scandal – and the collapse of the case to prosecute two men accused of spying for China. Meanwhile, as The Traitors returns, would Michael be a faithful, or a traitor?

This week: Michael and Maddie record Quite right! in front of a live audience at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester – with attendance down, the big question is whether Kemi Badenoch can survive as leader of the opposition.

This week: If Reform are ‘racist’ what does that say about Labour, Michael’s advice ahead of Tory conference and what Donald Trump and Emma Watson have in common. 

This week: the hell of party conference season, Tony Blair's ID card dystopia, why recognising Palestine is 'politics at its worst' and how Erika Kirk forgave.

This week: the shock defection of Danny Kruger to Reform UK’s ‘pirate ship’, why Boris is 'not welcome' in Nigel's teal team and can Britain's 'secret weapon' save the state visit?

In this bonus episode Michael and Madeline tackle two extraordinary political stories: the resignation of Peter Mandelson and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 

This week: Michael and Madeline talk about Labour’s deputy drama, discuss whether Britain is sliding into a revolutionary mood a la France and investigate the claim that Margaret Thatcher was autistic. 

In their first episode, Michael and Madeline take stock of a political summer dominated by Nigel Farage, Tom Skinner and Sydney Sweeney.

For our pilot episode, The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove and assistant editor Madeline Grant interview Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth and notorious Westminster provocateur.