The Telegram Podcast

"Hourly, farce is piled upon farce," wrote Iain Martin on his Telegraph blog this week as the Tory tribe panicked over Europe. In this week's Telegram, Iain argues that Cameron may have been fatally wounded – but Labour commentator Dan Hodges disagrees. Also, as IRS and Benghazi scandals engulf Barack Obama, columnist Con Coughlin says the sheer nastiness of this US administration is only now beginning to emerge.

In this week's Telegram, Nigel Farage claims that Peter Tatchell is forcing "Social Democrat" Dave's hand over gay marriage – and says that Boris is the one Conservative politician who could steal votes from Ukip. Meanwhile, Tory supporter Toby Young asks the Ukip leader: would you really be happy to see Ed Miliband in No 10? Why can't we have an unofficial pact? Listen to Farage's fascinating answer...

Do Ukip supporters hate Dave so much that they're willing to put Ed Miliband in power? Iain Martin says they do – and it could well happen. Dan Hodges strongly disagrees. Also in this week's Telegram: Con Coughlin on young Winston Churchill's Afghan campaign and the uncanny similarities between Pashtun resistance then and now.

In this week's Telegram, Peter Oborne and David Morrison, authors of a controversial new book on Iran, claim the regime is the victim of Western "lies". Con Coughlin calls their views "delusional". Also, Jenny McCartney and Damian Thompson discuss Englishness: resurgent nationalism or embarrassment?

This week Benedict Brogan and Janet Daley ask: did we bury conviction politics along with Margaret Thatcher and is Cameron anything more than a glorified CEO?

This week, Charles Moore and Damian Thompson remember the posh bigots who despised Mrs Thatcher, and Peter Oborne and Dan Hodges discuss Tony Blair's 'revenge' on Ed Miliband

Next week we launch Telegram, the provocative weekly podcast from our columnists, bloggers and guests. Here's a taster, in which Benedict Brogan and Janet Daley discuss the question on every Tory's lips: why is David Cameron heading for apparent defeat in 2015?