Last Orders - a spiked podcast

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. Go to https://surfshark.com/lastorders or use code LASTORDERS at checkout to get four extra months of Surfshark VPN! Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/

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. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/

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. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode.

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. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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. Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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 thinks about daylight savings. Please give generously to spiked’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. (UK addresses only.) https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ This episode is proudly sponsored by Beckett’s Gin. Listeners can get 20 per cent off all spirits, including Beckett’s brand new, limited-edition, single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.co.uk/spiked Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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 much more.

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. Don’t miss our live show at the Battle of Ideas festival. Chris and Tom will be joined by Julia Hartley-Brewer, Simon Evans and Kate Andrews in Westminster on Saturday 19 October. Get 20 per cent off your ticket by entering the promo code SPIKED24 at checkout or using this special link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2024-tickets-807629249827?discount=SPIKED24 You can find out more about the festival here: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/ Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation. We’ll also throw in a year’s membership to spiked supporters: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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. Don’t miss our upcoming live episode at the Battle of Ideas festival. Chris and Tom will be joined by some very special guests in Westminster on Saturday 19 October. Fans of the podcast can get 20 per cent off. Just enter the promo code SPIKED24 at checkout or use this URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2024-tickets-807629249827?discount=SPIKED24 You can find out more about the festival here: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/ See you there! Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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. Send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. You can get tickets to Simon Evans’s Alas, Smith and Hume! here and Footnotes to Smith here. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

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. Send your postbag questions to lastorders@spiked-online.com and we’ll try to answer them in the next episode. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/