Quite right! Episode 2, out now
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Michael Gove and Madeline Grant return with another episode of Quite right!, The Spectator’s new podcast promising sanity and common sense in an increasingly unhinged world. This week, they talk about Labour’s deputy drama, discuss whether Britain is sliding into a revolutionary mood a la France and investigate the claim in a new book that Margaret Thatcher was autistic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Michael Gove. |
| 0:07.5 | And I'm Madeleine Grant. |
| 0:08.7 | Apologies for interrupting the smooth running of this fantastic spectator podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | But we want to tell you about our new podcast, quite right, which is out now. |
| 0:18.5 | It's a place for politics, culture and philosophy, with perspectives you won't hear anywhere else. |
| 0:23.8 | Our second episode is out now, in which we talk about Labour's deputy drama, |
| 0:28.4 | discuss whether Britain is sliding into a revolutionary mood a la France, |
| 0:32.3 | and investigate the claim in a new book that Margaret Thatcher was autistic. |
| 0:37.1 | We can share a sneak peek of our new episode here. |
| 0:40.3 | If you like what you're here, search Quite Right wherever you are listening to this podcast, |
| 0:44.0 | or find us on YouTube at Spectator TV. |
| 0:46.8 | That's Quite Right from The Spectator. Happy listening. This time last week, you and I were talking about the reshuffle, Labour's reshuffle, |
| 1:02.9 | which at that point had been mostly the elevation of Darren Jones to be a kind of groom of the stool figure to the Prime Minister |
| 1:10.2 | and a few behind |
| 1:11.6 | the scenes sort of back office people that frankly most people other than the keenest political |
| 1:17.2 | junkie wouldn't have heard of them. So we were rather underwhelmed. But since then, I think |
| 1:21.4 | it's fair to say that we have seen a total reshuffle involving scores of ministers, including |
| 1:26.0 | two of the great offices of state. |
| 1:28.2 | Yvette Cooper has moved from the Home Office to the Foreign Office, and Shabana Mahmood |
| 1:32.8 | has been shuffled from justice into the all-important brief of the Home Office. |
| 1:36.7 | What has been your reading of this so far? |
| 1:38.7 | Is it a consolidation of power or a sign of weakness? |
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