Simon Heffer
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Oct 22, 2026
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Winston MarshallHOST
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Anthony SeldonGUEST
I was deputy head at the time of a school in Catford, or as I used to say, East Wimbledon or South Dulwich.
Anthony SeldonGUEST
And he would always begin by saying, have you seen what so-and-so, often Simon Heffer or someone on the right like that, has written about me in the Telegraph? And I said, look, it'd be like me going down to the loos and finding out the graffiti that people have written about me.
Anthony SeldonGUEST
You know, don't go there.
Anthony SeldonGUEST
Don't do it.
Sarah VineGUEST
But, uh, but no, people read it and actually really liked it, um, which was great.
Sarah VineGUEST
And, and, um, uh, I only had one horrid review, which was, I think, Simon Heffer in The Telegraph, who seemed very cross that I'd written about politics, 'cause obviously ladies mustn't write about politics.
Sarah VineGUEST
Um, but other than that, it was, it was, it was quite interesting.
Sarah VineGUEST
And even people who you wouldn't have expected to like it sort of grudgingly liked it, which was quite interesting.
Tom SwitzerHOST
What began as student-led protests has broadened into a much wider movement, exposing the profound tensions within French society and political discourse.
Tom SwitzerHOST
What does all this mean? And will the French violence work to Donald Trump's advantage in the lead up to the midterm elections? Professor Simon Heffer is a distinguished British historian and columnist, and he writes a regular column for the Connexion, the English language newspaper serving the international community in France.
Tom SwitzerHOST
Simon, lovely to see you again.
Tom SwitzerHOST
Thank you, Tom.
Michael McLarenHOST
This issue of politically motivated violence or alleged politically motivated violence.
Michael McLarenHOST
is a massive problem it's manifesting itself here and not just in this circumstance of course although this is probably the most extreme that we've seen for a while certainly the federal level but around the world and as we've been discussing on this show for quite a while now the situation in france is a very very violent case in point And Simon Heffer, who's a great mind, good journalist, writing, I think, for the UK Telegraph, or maybe it's the Times, but republished in the Fin Review today, says of France that the Fifth Republic has lasted 68 years.
Michael McLarenHOST
And according to the President, Macron, in a steely televised broadcast to citizens on Sunday, a small but violent cadre... from the far left, determined to destroy it.
Michael McLarenHOST
Well, that might be right, but it's more than just them.
RudyHOST
AI filed 20 visa applications.
RudyHOST
The Telegraph, Simon Heffer: "France is flirting dangerously with the end of capitalism.
RudyHOST
If Jean-Luc Melench- uh, Mélenchon," excuse me, "took on Jeremy Corbyn in a lunatic leftism conf- contest, he would win, and now he has a path to the presidency." Does he really? I don't think so.
RudyHOST
This guy brings up Marine Lep- Marine Le Pen.
Michael GoveGUEST
One, um, my friend and rival, Tom McTague, who's the editor of the New Statesman, uh, wrote a very, very good book about Britain's relationship with Europe called Between the Waves, and in it, he takes Powell very seriously, and he's unsparing in his criticism of what he sees as Powell's opportunism and nativism, but he's also very interested in Powell's ideas.
Michael GoveGUEST
Um, what we did at The Spectator was, um, run a piece by Simon Heffer, uh, whose original biography of Powell, like the Roman, was published, uh, more than a decade ago.
Michael GoveGUEST
It's been reprinted, and, uh, Simon reflected on Powell's legacy.
Michael GoveGUEST
It wasn't an uncritical reflection, though on the whole, Simon thinks that Powell was more sinned against than sinning.
Alastair CampbellHOST
Well, listen, we've, we've covered a lot of ground, Michael, b- in both in the main episode and now in the Q&A.
Alastair CampbellHOST
Thank you for standing in for, for Rory.
Alastair CampbellHOST
We do like to give our readers of the newsletter a few book recommendations, and you've just given one by Simon Heffer, but what, what else...
Alastair CampbellHOST
What, what are you reading at the moment? What do you, what do you take to Birmingham with you?
Michael GoveGUEST
But he's also very interested in Powell's ideas.
Michael GoveGUEST
What we did at The Spectator was run a piece by Simon Heffer, whose original biography of Powell, like the Roman, was published more than a decade ago.
Michael GoveGUEST
It's been reprinted and Simon reflected on Powell's legacy.
Michael GoveGUEST
It wasn't an uncritical reflection, though on the whole Simon thinks that Powell was more sinned against than sinning.
DanHOST
Well, he's quoted more in the UK, Disraeli, than he is in Australia or outside or in the US as well.
DanHOST
There was a review by Simon Heffer, who's a journalist and I think he's a member of the House of Lords now.
DanHOST
And he basically characterizes Thatcher as a Gladstonean liberal and said, I think he, quoting you, said, Thatcher, you question whether she can really be placed within the conservative tradition, right? I think that's right, because she was, you know, open borders trade, you know, moral crusading foreign policy to a certain extent.
DanHOST
I mean, there's a prudence to her as well, far more than later, maybe leaders like Tony Blair and George W. Bush on the foreign policy front.