Last Orders - a spiked podcast
Chris Snowdon, Tom Slater and guests discuss the latest in nanny-state killjoyism, covering topics like public health restrictions, censorship, and individual liberty from a libertarian perspective.
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The migrant mega-dinghy
GB News’ Patrick Christys joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the not-so-small boats crisis, why bookies aren’t to blame for Britain’s decline and the junk science driving anti-sugar fanaticism.
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The best of Rod Liddle | on spiked’s podcasts, videos & live events
Rod Liddle – Spectator columnist and Times Radio host – has died at aged 66. He was a great champion of spiked and a regular contributor to our podcasts, videos and live events. Here are some of his best bits, including from The Brendan O’Neill Show, Last Orders and Podcast Live.
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Jason Arday, DEI and how woke killed the university
GB News’ Tom Harwood joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the spectacular athleticism of Cambridge’s youngest black professor, Restore Britain’s plan to bring back smoking in pubs, and the folly of a wealth tax.
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Leave gamblers alone | Last Orders
Bookmaker Geoff Banks joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the nonsense statistics about ‘problem gambling’, why a wealth tax will not work, and local councils’ illegal war on KFC.
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Why Andy Burnham will crash and burn
Benedict Spence joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the mirage of ‘Manchesterism’, why the Beeb should become a Netflix-style subscription service and the coming tax raid on the gambling industry.
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The social-media ban will be a disaster | Last Orders
Maxwell Marlow, director of public affairs at the Adam Smith Institute, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the ban on social media for under-16s, the late David Hockney’s war on the anti-smoking bores, and why pubs are being squeezed by the government yet again.
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The insanity of price caps
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Kristian Niemietz, editorial director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Labour’s call for supermarket price cap
What would you ban?
Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater reach deep into the postbag for a very special edition of Last Orders. They discuss your questions, theories and ban suggestions. Plus, Snowdon answers his Letbyist critics. Not to be missed.
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Why we need more drunk MPs
Michael Simmons, economics editor of the Spectator, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Hannah Spencer’s vile assault on boozing at work, the rise of ‘benefits treats’, and the grim triumph of the generational smoking ban.
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Reform’s war on the fun police
Gawain Towler, former head of press at Reform UK, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Nigel Farage’s pledge to scrap the tobacco-sales ban, whether Restore is a threat to Reform, and why British Summer Time should be all year round.
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Chris Whitty’s French fat camp
Josie Appleton, from the Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Chris Whitty’s disdain for fat jabs, the epidemic of excessive car honking, and the inevitable woke turn of the football regulator.
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The insanity of vape bans
spiked’s Brendan O’Neill joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the plan to ban vaping inside, the drug with the most curious side effects, and if the Epstein scandal is becoming a moral panic.
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How Labour became the fun police
The TaxPayers’ Alliance’s Anne Strickland joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Labour’s miserable rule, the huge rise in social-care costs for illegal migrants, and why Lucy Letby’s defenders are angry with Netflix.
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Arrested for vaping: Singapore’s prohibitionist nightmare | Last Orders
Mark Oates joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Singapore’s deranged war on vaping, Labour’s plan to stop kids drinking non-alcoholic beer and why Lucy Letby is still guilty.
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Tony Lapidus: the internet’s impressionist
Impressionist Tony Lapidus joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. With the help of some very special guests, they discuss how new drink-driving rules could wreck rural pubs, Donald Trump’s assault on Venezuela and the scourge of motorbike engines.
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The tyranny of Starmer’s Labour
David Frost, unaffiliated peer and incoming director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss a woeful year in Labour’s Britain, the prospects for a Reform-Tory pact, and why food fads are turning people woke.
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Joey Barton’s ‘grossly offensive’ conviction
Will Kingston, host of the Fire at Will podcast, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss speech crime, Australia’s nanny-state gang wars and the dodgy stats about drinking.
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Rachel Reeves’s milkshake shakedown
Fraser Myers joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the budget’s nanny-state tax raid, the pro-lockdown lies of the Covid inquiry and Zack Polanski’s fairytale economics.
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First they came for the cigarettes
Simon Clark, director of smokers’ rights group Forest, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the EU’s crackdown on nicotine, the panic over childhood obesity and the long history of BBC bias.
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The British thirst for freedom
James Price, writer and former government adviser, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss whether Brits are more libertarian than the politicians think, why Rachel Reeves is going after the gambling industry, and James’s role in the ousting of Oxford Union president-elect George Abaraonye.
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Filterless fags and drunk-driving licences
We returned to the Battle of Ideas festival last weekend for a very special live show. Patrick Christys, Gawain Towler and Dominic Frisby joined Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the nanny-state plot to make smoking more harmful, Joe Wicks’s ultra-processed grift and why Zoomers are dodging after-work drinks. Plus, the audience weighed in with their questions – and bans. Not to be missed.
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The nanny state can BOGOF
Candice Holdsworth joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the ban on ‘buy one, get one free’ deals, the crackdown on shouting in the countryside, and the cost of Net Zero. Plus, Lucy Letby Corner.
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What’s the point of the Lib Dems?, with Julia Hartley-Brewer
Talk’s Julia Hartley-Brewer joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Ed Davey’s illiberal anti-democrats, why we shouldn’t arrest politicians for lying, Chris’s encounter with his Letbyist critics, and the case for banning air fresheners.
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Reform vs the nanny state, with Mike Graham
Talk’s Mike Graham joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, recorded at Reform UK’s conference. They discuss whether Nigel Farage will take on the public-health puritans, the Angela Rayner reshuffle and the case for banning cyclists.
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Can you be addicted to junk food?
Stand-up comedian Paul Cox joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss calls to lower the drink-driving limit, how fat shaming can help you lose weight, and why Lucy Letby is still guilty.
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The state we’re in, with Steve Baker
Steve Baker, former Tory MP and ‘Brexit hard man’, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Labour’s disastrous first year, what the Tories can do to recover, and if Reform has the answers to Britain’s woes.
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Votes for children
Simon Evans joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss votes for 16-year-olds, why the Edinburgh Fringe has become so dull and expensive, and how lockdown sent everyone mad.
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The truth about the Epstein list
Brendan O’Neill joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss whether the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory is unravelling, the latest Lucy Letby arrests and the seductive lure of supermarket deals.
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Hot for Letby
Charlie Peters joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss whether Lucy Letby’s defenders are motivated more by thirst than by facts, what to expect from the grooming-gangs inquiry, and the Ghana Drunkards Association.
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113: The vape gang wars
Will Kingston, host of the Spectator’s Fire at Will podcast, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for another episode of Last Orders. They discuss how Australia’s crackdown on vaping and smoking has led to firebombings, the death-cap mushroom killer, and where Chris should emigrate to.
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112: Do we even need doctors?
The Taxpayers’ Alliance’s John O’Connell joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the rise of the quango state, the junk-food advertising ban and why doctors are overrated.
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111: The most miserable places in Europe
The IEA’s Reem Ibrahim joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the Nanny State Index, the new trade deals with India and the US, and the defunding of public-health groups.
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110: The insanity of the war on vapes
The great Claire Fox joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for another episode of Last Orders, the spiked podcast all about freedom and the nanny state. They discuss the latest on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, the anti-terror law that shut down a flower show, and the scourge of the anti-smoking playbook.
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109: Is there really ‘no safe level’ of drinking?
Comedian and writer Dominic Frisby joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for another episode of Last Orders, the spiked podcast all about freedom and the nanny state. They discuss the fear-mongering claims about moderate drinking, a victory for sex-based rights in the courts, the rise of clean-living comedians and the latest on the Tory gambling scandal.
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108: The death of the Great British boozer
Luke Johnson joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, the spiked podcast all about freedom and the nanny state. They discuss why so many pubs are closing down, the galaxy-brained plan to ban cigarette filters and what Trump’s tariffs will mean for the world.
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107: Banter bouncers and black-market cigs
Stand-up comedian Leo Kearse joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, spiked’s nanny-state podcast. They discuss Labour’s joyless crackdown on pub humour, the unintended consequences of sugar taxes, the collapse in (legal) tobacco sales, and the rise of the Letbyist subculture.
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106: The nonsense of Islamophobia
Freddie Attenborough from the Free Speech Union joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss Labour’s latest free-speech crackdown, why vaping really isn’t as bad as smoking, and the nonsensical claim that Britain’s students are hooked on gambling.
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105: Does the UK need a DOGE?
William Yarwood from the Taxpayers’ Alliance joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, spiked’s nanny-state podcast. They discuss Elon Musk’s war on waste, Wales’s miserable experiment with minimum pricing and why civil servants shouldn’t be allowed to have lunch breaks.
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104: DeepSeek, deep-fried coriander and Lucy Letby
Timandra Harkness – author of Technology is Not the Problem – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss China and America’s AI arms race, how eating healthy is as cheap as chips, and why Lucy Letby is still guilty.
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103: Think before you post
spiked columnist Luke Gittos joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss the post-Southport speech wars, Trump taking on the public-health lobby, and whether Labour will really go for growth.
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102: The vibe shift
GB News presenter Tom Harwood joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss how Trump’s victory has moved the Overton window, why Mark Zuckerberg is right to sack his fact-checkers, and the Dutch mother who tried to get her son off vaping by giving him cigarettes.
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101: Liquid lunches in North Korea
Patrick Christys – presenter for GB News – and Gawain Towler – former head of press for Reform UK – join Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for a very special episode of Last Orders. Not only is it the Christmas episode, it’s also the show’s 100th (kind of). They discuss whether Keir Starmer’s Britain is going the way of Kim Jong-un’s totalitarian hermit kingdom, the rise of Reform, and what Lucy Letby
100: Scandal, gossip and Guido Fawkes
Paul Staines – founding editor of Guido Fawkes – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss whether Westminster muckraking is a dying art, why Labour wants to ban adverts for porridge, and why young people should do more drugs.
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99: Non-crimes and the misery of veganism
Writer and commentator Candice Holdsworth joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss Allison Pearson’s visit from the thoughtpolice, the junk statistics about junk-food ‘addiction’, and why Dale Vince can do one.
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98: The banter era returns
Reem Ibrahim – communications manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the hilarious backlash to Donald Trump’s re-election, the revival of the smoking ban, and why adults like flavoured vapes, too.
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97: Fat jabs, speed and the banter police
Julia Hartley-Brewer, Simon Evans and Kate Andrews joined Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for this very special edition of the Last Orders podcast, recorded live at the Battle of Ideas festival in Westminster on Saturday 19 October. They discussed the rise of Ozempic, Labour’s plan to cleanse pubs of offensive speech, why weed is the boring drug, how speed could solve our productivity problem, and mu
96: See Last Orders *live* this weekend
This is your last chance to get tickets to see us at the Battle of Ideas festival this weekend. On Saturday, at Church House in Westminster, we’ll be doing a very special live show, featuring Julia Hartley-Brewer, Simon Evans, Kate Andrews and loads of audience participation. If you’re already coming to the Battle of Ideas, get yourself down to the Robert Runcie Room at 12.15pm on Saturday. If you
95: Why London’s nightlife is dying
Matthew Lesh – public policy fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs and country manager for Freshwater Strategy – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the departure of London’s ‘night tsar’, Scotland’s regressive experiment with ‘minimum pricing’ for alcohol, and the battle to open a chip shop in a Welsh seaside town.
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94: Does Chris Whitty run the country?
Josie Appleton, director of the Manifesto Club, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Chris Whitty’s one-man crusade against smoking and drinking, the calls to abolish the pint glass, and what Labour’s ‘respect order’ will mean for civil liberties.
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93: The nanny state is back with a vengeance
Smoking bans, a crackdown on junk food, state-sanctioned fat-shaming… it’s been a miserable few weeks in Keir Starmer’s Britain. In the latest episode of Last Orders, Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater discuss Labour’s zealous embrace of public-health paternalism – and whether or not it’s time for Chris to emigrate.
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92: The AI will see you now
Rob Lyons, science and technology director at the Academy of Ideas, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss whether chatbots are the future of medicine, the sorry state of Irish boozing, and why ‘Gamblegate’ disappeared after the election.
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91: Big Keir is watching you
Big Brother Watch’s Mark Johnson is this week’s guest on Last Orders, with Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater. They discuss the crackdown on free speech after the riots, the creepy rise of facial-recognition technology, why booze and nicotine can be good for you, and the return of monkeypox.
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90: How universities fell to censorship
The Free Speech Union’s Jan Macvarish returns to Last Orders with Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater. They discuss why Labour is abandoning the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, how drinking made Western civilisation and the problem with ‘problem gambling’.
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89: The green zealotry of Ed Miliband
James Woudhuysen – visiting professor of forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University – returns to Last Orders with Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater. They discuss the Labour government’s disastrous green agenda, the snobbery of the nanny state and the rise of Lucy Letby trutherism.
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88: From Starmer’s gulag
spiked’s Tim Black joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss whether Keir Starmer is an empty suit or a crypto-Stalinist, the Gamble-gate hysteria and the pathetic attempt to turn ‘ultra-processed food’ into the ‘new tobacco’. Plus, we respond to an outraged nutritionist.
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87: You're not singing any more
Political commentator Benedict Spence joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the shaming of England fans for singing ‘10 German bombers’, the World Health Organisation’s ‘anti-capitalist’ turn and the calls to lower the drink-driving limit.
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86: Farage, cakes and single-use vapes
Claire Fox, member of the House of Lords and director of the Academy of Ideas, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss what Nigel Farage’s return might mean for the General Election, the panic over nicotine pouches and the pointlessness of the sugar tax.
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85: The snobbery of the ultra-processed-food panic
Reem Ibrahim, communications officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Chris van Tulleken’s latest musings about UPF, why we shouldn’t ban shisha and why we should ban slow-walking in London.
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84: The battle for the soul of Toryism, with David Frost
David Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator and Tory peer, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss how the Tories became the party of the nanny state, why freedom should be at the heart of politics and the prospects for Conservative electoral renewal.
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83: Why we shouldn’t ban smoking – or the hate marches
Mark Birbeck, co-founder of the Our Fight campaign, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban, what the public-health lobby gets wrong about alcohol and why even the anti-Israel bigots deserve free speech.
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82: The free-speech wars in comedy
Stand-up comedian Josh Howie joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the revelations from the Cass Review, the World Health Organisation’s fake news about vaping and how wokeness has divided the comedy industry.
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81: How local councils went woke
John O’Connell – chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss local councils spending millions on diversity officers, Jolyon Maugham’s crusade against ‘Tufton Street’ and why a comedian’s tour posters were banned by the London Underground.
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80: Vape juice, cigars and extremism
Candice Holdsworth joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss sin taxes on vaping, the call to ban cigars and Michael Gove’s crackdown on extremism.
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79: Prince Harry vs the press
Mick Hume joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Prince Harry’s beef with the tabloids, banning smartphones for under-16s and whether believing in prohibitionism should be a ‘protected’ belief.
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78: Hands off our vapes
Harrison Griffiths joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Rishi Sunak’s crusade against vaping, the tyranny of the World Health Organisation and Chris’s campaign for an extra day of summer.
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77: Starmer’s nanny state
Rob Lyons, science and technology director at the Academy of Ideas, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss just how bad a Labour government will be for freedom, the public-health plot against large wine glasses and the sinister rise of Brummiephobia.
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76: Punching down
Lou Perez, comedian and author of That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the rise of anti-woke comedy, the hypocrisy of the health-food lobby and the joys of Wetherspoons.
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75: The year freedom went up in smoke
The Spectator’s Kate Andrews joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. In this special end-of-year round-up, they discuss everything from food fads to fag bans to laughing gas to the coming crackdown on the internet. Enjoy!
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74: AI is not going to kill us all
Andrew Orlowski joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the hysteria over AI, New Zealand’s u-turn on smoking and whether selfies are a public-health risk.
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73: Should schools be free to indoctrinate?
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don’t Divide Us, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the rise of racial identity politics in schools, the uselessness of the WHO, and the perils of prohibition.
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72: Live at the Battle of Ideas!
The Telegraph’s Madeline Grant and GB News’s Patrick Christys joined Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for a very special live episode of Last Orders at the Battle of Ideas festival last weekend. They discussed how the Tories became the party of the nanny state, the farcical Covid inquiry, the debanking scandal, banning Bully XLs, and much more.
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71: Australia’s Brexit moment
Matthew Lesh, director of public policy and communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia, the latest on Rishi Sunak’s crusade against smoking, and Labour’s plan to criminalise misgendering.
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70: Sunak’s smoking ban
Patrick O’Flynn, political commentator and former MEP, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Rishi Sunak’s plan for smoking prohibition, the war on motorists, and why centrist Tories ruin everything.
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69: An ultra-processed panic
Anthony Warner, food writer, author and self-styled Angry Chef, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the demonisation of ‘ultra-processed food’, the ban on disposable vapes, and why everyone is getting so fat.
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68: Can liberalism survive trans ideology?
Marc Glendening, head of cultural affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the philosophical clash between liberalism and transgenderism, the killjoys who want to limit you to two beers a week, and the tragic death of Ursula von der Leyen’s pony.
We’re doing our first live show! On Saturday 28 October, Chr
67: Bring back wolves?
Stand-up comedian and spiked columnist Simon Evans joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the witch-hunting of Graham Linehan, the ridiculous regulation of takeaway pints, and the mad plan to reintroduce wolves to the English countryside.
Send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode.
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66: What happened to the Edinburgh Fringe?
Comedian Leo Kearse joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss woke censorship in comedy, the junk science about ‘ultra-processed foods’, and why middle-aged, privately educated liberals are ruining everything.
Send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode.
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65: Why Net Zero is a dangerous fantasy
Ralph Schoellhammer – assistant professor in economics and political science at Webster University Vienna – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the revolt against green zealotry, Tony Blair’s call for more sin taxes, and the nanny-state lobby’s tantrum over free Barbies.
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64: Sadiq Khan’s war on cake
James Woudhuysen – visiting professor of forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Transport for London’s absurd junk-food advertising ban, the fear-mongering over problem gambling, and the deranged views of Just Stop Oil.
Send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll
63: The shameful suppression of the lab-leak theory
Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason and co-host of Rising on The Hill TV, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss why the misinformation cops got Covid so wrong, the ridiculousness of minimum pricing on alcohol, and how to take on Big Tech censorship.
Send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the nex
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