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Reality Check

The Spectator

Reality Check cuts through the spin and explains the numbers behind the noise. In each episode, The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons and in-the-know guests will make a data-driven case on a story hogging the headlines.

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63 épisodes

  1. Why we are not in an AI bubble – yet 32:18
  2. Dan Neidle on Britain's most hated tax 20:40
  3. The Spectator's post-budget briefing – with Tim Shipman & Michael Gove 29:24
  4. LIVE: Healey's Budget – trick or treat? 33:28
  5. ‘Devolution is not a growth plan’: Andy Haldane on Burnham, Badenoch & the Budget 43:00
  6. Fraser Nelson exposes Britain's welfare pipeline 47:59
  7. LIVE: Why aren't Britain's young people working? | with Laura Trott 39:02
  8. A history of the bond markets – with Robin Wigglesworth 36:29
  9. LIVE: ‘Taxpayers are subsidising crappy jobs’ – TUC boss Paul Nowak 24:03
  10. Labour doesn’t HAVE to raise taxes at the Budget 18:16
  11. The AI apocalypse is just good marketing 17:20
  12. Wealth tax debate LIVE: Arthur Laffer vs Aaron Bastani 32:58
  13. Budget 2026: who is left to tax? 8:55
  14. The ADHD boom: are we medicalising normal behaviour? 14:56
  15. Heatwave: the truth about Britain’s water crisis – and what it means for net zero 17:00
  16. Britain’s AI problem isn’t data centres – it’s electricity 24:47
  17. Labour doesn’t understand business and it shows – with Oliver Shah 22:52
  18. Social care reform: what the sector needs & what it doesn't – with David Goodhart 23:25
  19. Could women be the solution to Britain's prison problem? 19:24
  20. The real problem behind Britain's homelessness & why Burnham won't fix it 14:04
  21. Fact check: Rupert Lowe on Joe Rogan 17:04
  22. The white working class ceiling, private schools & why Britain's failing – with Joanna Marchong 27:52
  23. Burnham's bid to bridge the North-South divide 42:49
  24. Labour's dilemma: is Burnham's economic agenda doomed? 21:23
  25. DEBATE: is Starmer right to ban social media for under 16s? 16:06
  26. How corporate woke sent Pride broke 17:47
  27. Can you trust your spouse with your finances? Plus Britain's longest divorce. With Alice Wright 19:58
  28. Price caps are pointless – why Reeves is wrong to attack supermarkets 10:01
  29. Trump's tariffs & Mamdani's New York – can anything destroy America's economy? 27:30
  30. How to revive industrial Britain: SDP leader on British steel, the entitlement state & a Farage pact 28:50
  31. Council budgets are financial black holes – what's the point in voting? 11:30
  32. Polanski slams the 'war on drugs' – here's why he's wrong about legalisation 16:37
  33. Don't believe the headline: the truth about unemployment data 12:46
  34. How the leasehold mafia screwed a generation of homeowners 34:36
  35. Benefits Britain exposed: are you paying for someone else's day out? 6:47
  36. Could the Iran war wreck your mortgage? 9:16
  37. Energy bailout? Why Britain can’t afford a cap on household bills 22:48
  38. Britain can have AI or Net Zero – but it can’t have both 7:46
  39. This oil crisis could be the worst we've ever seen – former Trump economist Tyler Goodspeed 28:33
  40. Reality Check live: Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers the Spring Statement 43:32
  41. SEND madness: Britain faces 'ruinous costs' from over diagnosing children 5:47
  42. Debt bomb: the £100 billion problem nobody talks about 21:17
  43. Keir Starmer has done nothing for Britain's young 10:02
  44. Peter Schiff on the dollar: America's bust is the world's boom 18:47
  45. Why the housing crisis is far worse than Labour wants you to believe 8:37
  46. Andy Burnham’s bond blip, scrapping the OBR & why Rishi Sunak deserves more credit – James Nation 31:27
  47. SNP budget: the smallest tax cut in history 9:11
  48. Who's to blame for Britain's water crisis? 24:41
  49. Could Britain's migration crisis already be over? 7:36
  50. 2025: a year of tears, tariffs & taxes 33:30