Last Orders - a spiked podcast

Chris Snowdon, Tom Slater and guests discuss the latest in nanny-state killjoyism.

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Saturday · 45 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
July 19 · 38 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
July 4 · 42 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
June 22 · 42 min
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. Donate £40 or more to spiked’s summer appeal and receive a limited-edition ‘10 years of Brexit’ pint glass. Find out more and donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-summer-appeal/ 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 30 · 55 min
The insanity of price caps
Listen to Rod Liddle’s Times Radio show, Saturdays 10am to 1pm, on digital radio, your smart speaker or by downloading the free Times Radio app. Find out more here: https://www.thetimes.com/radio 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 caps, the junk science about gambling, and Zack Polanski’s mysterious appeal. 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. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Featuring Lionel Shriver, Andrew Doyle, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Paul Embery, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 16 · 52 min
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. 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. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Featuring Lionel Shriver, Andrew Doyle, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Paul Embery, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Join the campaign against the vaping ban: https://savevaping.org/ Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 2 · 36 min
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. 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. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Join the campaign against the vaping ban: https://savevaping.org/ Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
April 13 · 41 min
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. 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. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Join the campaign against the vaping ban: https://savevaping.org/ Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
March 19 · 44 min
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. 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. Find out more about the Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life: https://freedomineverydaylife.org/ Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
February 28 · 52 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
February 10 · 39 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
January 27 · 47 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
January 12 · 35 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 23, 2025 · 53 min
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. Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift, the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more – or £30 or more, if you’re a spiked supporter – to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spiked-online.com/xmas/ 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 13, 2025 · 43 min
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. Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift, the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more – or £30 or more, if you’re a spiked supporter – to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spiked-online.com/xmas/ 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 29, 2025 · 41 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 17, 2025 · 44 min
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. Get your tickets to the premiere of Think Before You Post, on Tuesday 25 November in London: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 2, 2025 · 39 min
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. Watch Think Before You Post, our documentary on the rise of the British speech police, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0smxO4WiOA 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 23, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 8, 2025 · 38 min
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. See the Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 19 October, featuring special guests Patrick Christys and Dominic Frisby. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=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 a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices