

Last Orders - a spiked podcast
Last Orders - a spiked podcast
Chris Snowdon, Tom Slater and guests discuss the latest in nanny-state killjoyism.
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Oct 8, 2025 • 37min
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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Sep 26, 2025 • 44min
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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Sep 8, 2025 • 41min
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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Aug 23, 2025 • 52min
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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Aug 9, 2025 • 54min
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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Jul 26, 2025 • 42min
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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Jul 12, 2025 • 45min
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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Jun 28, 2025 • 51min
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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Jun 15, 2025 • 54min
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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May 30, 2025 • 34min
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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