Quite right!: Farage steals summer, Starmer’s reset flop & should we 'raise the colours'?
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Michael Gove and Madeline Grant launch ‘Quite right!’, the new podcast from The Spectator that promises sanity and common sense in a world that too often lacks both.
In their first episode, they take stock of a political summer dominated by Nigel Farage, a Labour government already facing mutiny, and the curious spectacle of Tory MPs moonlighting as gonzo reporters.
From J.D. Vance’s Cotswold sojourn and Tom Skinner’s bish bash bosh patriotism, to Sydney Sweeney’s jeans advert causing a culture war, Michael and Madeline discuss what really drives our politics: policies, or memes and vibes?
Plus: Keir Starmer’s ‘phase two’ reshuffle – does it amount to more than technocratic jargon? And why has cosy crime conquered our screens, even as Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club stumbles upon its Netflix release?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Quite Right, the new podcast from The Spectator, that searches for sanity and common sense in a world that increasingly seems devoid of both. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Michael Gove. |
| 0:16.9 | And I'm Madeleine Grant. |
| 0:18.2 | Each week, Michael and I will be talking through some of the stories that most peaks are interest, amusement or exasperation. |
| 0:25.5 | This week, on our first ever podcast. |
| 0:28.3 | Who won summer? |
| 0:29.6 | Was it Farage, Stama, Tom Skinner, or maybe just maybe, Sydney Sweeney? |
| 0:34.8 | And also this week, Keir Starrma, I've heard the Man of the People, |
| 0:38.3 | chose transfer deadline day in order to reshuffle his own team. |
| 0:42.5 | But will it bring him glory? |
| 0:44.1 | And with the release of Netflix's Thursday Murder Club, |
| 0:46.9 | we lament the blight of cozy crime. |
| 1:01.3 | So, Betty, a new political time has started, and with it our new podcast, but inevitably we meet in the shadow of a summer. Now, normally, you would expect the summer to be, if not a |
| 1:06.0 | politics-free zone, at least one where we could switch off to an extent. But there was quite a lot of |
| 1:10.7 | furious political activity this summer, and most of it seems... zone, at least one, where we could switch off to an extent. But there was quite a lot of furious |
| 1:11.1 | political activity this summer, and most of it seemed to be around borders and the battle for |
| 1:18.3 | Britain. So Nigel Farage, I think, was the person who had the best of the summer in media |
| 1:25.7 | terms. I don't know if you felt that it was Farage's summer, |
| 1:30.6 | or if you felt that actually there were more complex currents than that? |
| 1:34.1 | I think on balance I do. |
| 1:35.5 | It was an interesting summer because in many ways, |
| 1:38.0 | like official politics wasn't really taking place. |
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