Will Democrats win the Georgia Senate runoff?
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Freddy Gray
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
Tuesday
Monday
The Trump racket
The movement has collapsed under the weight of its own absurdities
Tuesday
Year in review with Douglas Murray: China, neocons and the culture wars
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Douglas Murray, the author of The Madness of Crowds, joins the last Americano of the year. On the episode, he and Freddy chat through the most important trends and events of the year, from China and the pandemic, to whether or not ‘neocon’ is still a usable term.
Tuesday
Is Joe Biden a ‘Democrat In Name Only’?
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As the Electoral College confirms Joe Biden’s victory, Freddy Gray talks to Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, about whether or not the president-elect, with his centrist appeal, is really a ‘DINO’ – ‘Democrat In Name Only’.
Saturday
US Supreme Court ends Trump’s last hope
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This is the end, my only friend, the end. The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Texas’s legal bid to challenge Joe Biden’s election. Donald Trump said the Court ‘really let us down’, but the truth is that the case was a legal Hail Mary. It has failed. Now the quixotic campaign to challenge the official
Saturday
The unbearable mawkishness of modern American politics
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From Brett Kavanaugh to Joe Biden, American politics too often seems to be a display of emotions rather than policies. On the podcast, Freddy Gray talks to political analyst Thomas Frank, author of The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.
Thursday
Will the Biden presidency mean more wars?
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Joe Biden’s supporters say he will restore America’s standing in the world, but with his foreign policy team looking like an Obama-era reunion, will the country simply become more interventionist? Freddy Gray speaks to Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, senior adviser at the Quincy Institute, about whether a Biden presidency will mean more wars.
Here comes President Joebama
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‘So you’re seeing a team develop that I have great confidence in,’ said former president Barack Obama this week when asked about Joe Biden’s incoming administration. Obama sounds a bit of a World King these days, but you can’t blame him for feeling chipper. He has his third book of memoirs out (he only writes
Friday
You don’t have to be crazy to think the election was stolen. But it helps
Paranoid thinking is taking over the Trump movement
Wednesday
Is fatherlessness tearing America apart?
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With essayist Mary Eberstadt, whose recent article for First Things argued that the riots in the wake of George Floyd’s killing come down to the sexual revolution and fatherlessness.
Sunday
‘He said, she said’ reports from the MAGA march
Most of the brawls appear to have been fairly inconsequential, even boring
Friday
Did Big Tech sway the election?
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Joe Biden won the 2020 election, but was support from social and legacy media the reason why? Freddy Gray speaks to Allum Bokhari, author of #Deleted, about whether Big Tech swung the result.
Thursday
Macron alone: where are France’s allies in the fight against Islamism?
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First, France has been shaken by a series of gruesome terror attack – yet western leaders seem remarkably reluctant to support President Emannuel Macron. (01:04) Lara speaks to The Spectator’s associate editor Douglas Murray and writer Ed Husain. Next, this year’s US election was truly remarkable – but what was it like to report on
My post-election drink with Nigel Farage
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a useful stop for journalists looking for some rust-belt Americana not too far from New York. The city feels a bit like a museum. Not so long ago, Bethlehem Steel was one of the biggest steel and ship-building companies in the world. Today the vast mill, which shut down in 1995, is
Monday
Deplorables don’t riot
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For months, the media has warned us that a narrow Joe Biden victory in the presidential election could lead to civil war. President Donald Trump would refuse to accept the result and his supporters would resort to violence. Well, the first part seems right; Trump is clinging on to the bitterest of ends. The second
Sunday
Should conservatives celebrate Joe Biden’s victory?
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The fallout from the election is ongoing, but Joe Biden has reached 270 electoral college votes, and he last night vowed to ‘unify’ the country. What kind of president will he be? Freddy Gray speaks to Tim Stanley.
Saturday
When will Trump concede?
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Joe Biden edges ever closer to the White House, but the Trump campaign has launched a flurry of lawsuits to aim for recounts of the vote in various states. Will he concede? Freddy Gray talks to Amber Athey and Matt McDonald.
Friday
Biden sleepwalks to the White House
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‘You all… declare me dead. Guess what? I ain’t dead. I’m not going to die.’ That was Joe Biden back in January, speaking to the New York Times editorial board. ‘Everybody dies,’ replied a female Times board member, showing that lightness of spirit that is her newspaper’s speciality. ‘I’m not going to die politically,’ said
Thursday
Is this the end for Trumpism?
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28 min listen
What are the latest developments in the US presidential election? (01:15) – Lara is joined by the Spectator’s economics correspondent Kate Andrews and the Spectator US’s editor Freddy Gray, who is currently in Pennsylvania. What is it like to care for a disabled child during a time of lockdown? (09:19) – The journalist Sam Carlisle
Is America a banana republic?
The confusion over what has happened in 2020 is absurd