Marshall Matters
Episodes
New podcast: Quite right! with Michael Gove & Madeline Grant
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Gove and Madeline Grant launch Quite right!, The Spectator’s new podcast promising sanity and common sense in an increasingly unhinged world...
'It can be done!': David Goodhart on how to stop illegal immigration
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Winston speaks to David Goodhart, author of The British Dream: Successes And Failures Of Post-War Immigration, which celebrates its 10 year ...
'I don't believe in progress': Mary Harrington on how modern feminism has harmed women
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Winston speaks to journalist Mary Harrington about her new book, Feminism Against Progress. Become a Spectator subscriber today to access t...
Silkie Carlo: Is the UK the next surveillance state?
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks to Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, about the Online Safety Bill, the Digital Services Act and whether Britain will be the ...
Laura Dodsworth: How to protect yourself from government propaganda
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Dodsworth is a photographer, artist and author. In her most recent book Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist it, Laur...
Book bans, boomers & censorship – Nick Gillespie
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Gillespie is an American libertarian journalist and the editor-at-large for Reason magazine. He is also the author of The Declaration of Independ...
Yeonmi Park: Escaping North Korea, surviving China and finding freedom in America
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector who from fled home country through China where she was saved by Christian missionaries. She is the author of tw...
Yoram Hazony: National conservatism, overpopulation and the future of America
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yoram Hazony is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, political theorist and leader of the national conservatism movement. He discusses with...
Francis Fukuyama: Can liberalism and nationalism coexist?
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his seminal book The End of History and The Last Man...
Lee Fang: Forced to apologise for reporting on BLM
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Fang is an independent journalist formally at the Intercept. He discusses his forced apology for how he covered the 2020 BLM protests, how and why...
Michael Shellenberger: Exposing the censorship industrial complex
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Shellenberger, Twitter Files journalist and founder of Public is in London to discuss the international censorship industrial complex. He expl...
Tony Diver: Government's secret censorship unit and the truth about the Lockdown Files
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Diver is part of the investigations team at the Telegraph who exposed the Government Counter-Disinformation Unit. The unit operated during the pa...
'We aren't a serious country': Matt Goodwin on where the liberal revolution went wrong
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Goodwin, author of the bestseller Values, Voice and Virtue talks to Winston about the divide in British politics between cosmopolitans and tra...
Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrated historian Niall Ferguson, author of 17 books including Civilisation, a biography of Kissinger, a biography of the Rothschild family and Doo...
Peter Boghossian: how the Academy got woke and why the 'New Atheists' are to blame
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks to former Portland State University professor turned international philosopher, Peter Boghossian. Peter was a prominent new atheist aut...
Louise Perry: motherhood in crisis and the feminist case for marriage
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Feminist philosopher, Unherd columnist and author of The Case Against The Sexual Revolution Louise Perry discusses population growth decline, how cult...
Britain's grooming gangs: is Rishi Sunak doing enough?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For over forty years, tens of thousands of girls and young women have been abused, raped and some brutally murdered across Britain by grooming gangs. ...
Posie Parker: New Zealand, Let Women Speak and standing against Labour
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Posie Parker, aka Kellie-Jay Keen, is back from her Let Women Speak tour of Australia and New Zealand, where she was mobbed and hounded by radical tra...
Eva Vlaardingerbroek: the Dutch farmer protests and 'Nexit'
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with Dutch legal philosopher, writer and political activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek. Three and a half years of farmer demonstrations again...
David Zweig: how and why the reality of Covid was censored
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with Twitter files journalist David Zweig just as the Twitter files scandal goes to congress. They discuss the significance of the hear...
Simon Fanshawe: what Stonewall gets wrong and the case for diversity and inclusion
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with Perrier Award-winning comedian, writer, author and co-founder of gay rights charity Stonewall, Simon Fanshawe. They discuss the hi...
Matt Walsh: What is a woman, Dylan Mulvaney and the American gender-critical movement
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with American author, film-maker, political commentator and activist Matt Walsh. They discuss Matt’s film ‘What Is A Woman’ and i...
Dr Jay Bhattacharya: questioning lockdowns, the Twitter files and how censorship kills
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with Stanford University professor, physician, epidemiologist, health economist and public health policy expert, Dr Jay Bhattacharya. T...
Bjorn Lomborg: climate change alarmism and the true cost of net zero
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, author of the book False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts The P...
Sohrab Ahmari: Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Twitter files
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks Sohrab Ahmari, author of The New Philistines, From Fire By Water and The Unbroken Thread, a co-founder of Compact magazine and former e...
Graham Linehan: how the Father Ted musical got cancelled
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Books. Graham took a stand as a women’s rights...
Michael Shellenberger: What Just Stop Oil gets wrong and COP27 corruption
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With climate activists around the world vandalising great works by Monet, van Gogh and Goya, Winston speaks with environmentalist, conservationist and...
Candace Owens: Understanding Kanye 'Ye' West and where Black Lives Matter went wrong
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with American author, conservative commentator and activist Candace Owens. They discuss why she and Kanye West wore White Lives Matter ...
Helen Joyce: the truth about trans and why sex matters
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author and journalist Helen Joyce speaks to Winston about the most contentious issue of the age: the transgender debate. They discussed Mermaids, Tavi...
James Dreyfus: cancelled from Dr Who for supporting JK Rowling
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Winston speaks with actor James Dreyfus, star of Gimme Gimme Gimme, The Thin Blue Line and Notting Hill. They discuss his cancellation from ...
Jordan Peterson: The Book of Revelation, Ronaldo and the role of the artist
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with best-selling author, clinical psychologist and leading public intellectual Dr Jordan Peterson. They discuss the role of artists in...
Laurence Fox: My Son Hunter, Biden corruption and free speech
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with actor turned political activist Laurence Fox on his new film My Son Hunter, Biden corruption, being...
Yasmine Mohammed: Salman Rushdie and how western liberals empower radical Islam
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with author and human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed. They discuss Salman Rushdie’s Fatwa, The Satanic Verses, Islamic blasphemy la...
Ariel Pink: Trump, Capitol riots and breaking music's orthodoxy
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with American indie legend Ariel Pink. The accomplished singer-songwriter had his life turned on its head for the great crime of suppor...
Rosie Kay: Controversial choreography and overcoming an emotional cancelling
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay. Rosie is returning to the world of dance after being forced to resign from her eponymous compa...
Coleman Hughes: Blasphemy, reparations and counter-culture
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winston speaks with writer, musician and host of Conversations with Coleman, Coleman Hughes. They discuss blasphemy in the music industry, counter-cul...
Rahima Mahmut on Uyghur history, music and the Adrian Zenz report
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Marshall Matters Winston speaks to Rahima Mahmut. Rahima is a Uyghur singer, writer, translator and activist. They discussed the history ...
Andrew Doyle: Free speech absolutism, Elon Musk and Titania McGrath
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with Comedian, author and TV host Andrew Doyle. They discuss his book Free Speech and Why it Matters, El...
Seth Dillon - Will Elon Musk 'Free The Bee'?
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Marshall Matters Winston speaks with Seth Dillon, CEO and owner of American political satire site The Babylon Bee. The Babylon Bee are cu...
Konstantin Kisin on the war in Ukraine
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Winston is joined by Russian-British comedian, podcaster and author Konstantin Kisin. Konstantin gives his insight into the ongoing war in U...
Putin has unified us – Ukrainian rock star turned freedom fighter
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode of Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk in Ukraine. Svyatoslav is the lead singer of Ukraine’s biggest ...
Artemy Troitsky - 'I'm pretty sure Ukrainians will win'
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with Russian author, journalist and culture and music historian Artemy Troitsky. Troitsky...
Tracy-Ann Oberman - Political purity tests in films and theatre
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Marshall Matters Winston is joined by British actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, star of Afterlife, Toast of London, Ridley Road and Eastenders, ...
Don McLean – 'The day the music died'
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Winston is joined by American songwriting legend Don McLean. Don discusses his work, the atmosphere of America when he was starting in the 6...
David Baddiel - Is anti-Semitism a blind spot?
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2 of Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with David Baddiel on his powerful book 'Jews Don’t Count', the experience of writing the alternati...
Ignat Solzhenitsyn - Music, Aleksandr, and Western Values
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode of Marshall Matters, Winston interviews Ignat Solzhenitsyn on the pursuit of art, the state of classical music, the lasting ...
Introducing... Marshall Matters
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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