Last Orders - a spiked podcast

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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’.  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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.   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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  This episode is sponsored by the Munk Debates: http://www.munkdebates.com/  Use the code SPIKED10 to get 10% off your supporter membership. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator and Tory peer, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of <em>Last Orders</em>. 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. This episode is sponsored by the Munk Debates. Use the code SPIKED10 to get 10% off your supporter membership at munkdebates.com.  Find out more about spiked’s internship programme here: spiked-online.com/interns  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/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Find out more about spiked’s internship programme here: spiked-online.com/interns  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/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Find out more about spiked’s internship programme here: spiked-online.com/interns  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/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices