Chris Snowdon

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1,117 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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Last Orders - a spiked podcast · Jason Arday, DEI and how woke killed the university · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

Was he taking it himself?

I do think that the the whole people being unable to imagine a halfway point between the smoking ban and or or even

Unable to imagine some pubs having smoking and some pubs not having smoking, speaks to something very intrinsic about how, particularly the British mind works.

I don't know if you saw earlier this week the Liberal Democrats came forward with a policy that was every single new home must be built with air conditioning.

Did they?

They did, they did.

Um and and uh someone, I forget who, um just commented on this saying

British politics has two modes.

Or must be mandated in all cases.

And and there's just no halfway house.

I d I don't know why people don't have the cognitive capacity to imagine that if something is allowed, that doesn't mean it is mandated.

And and the idea that you might let someone do something doesn't mean that that person must do that thing, or even that that thing would be done particularly.

Widely or particularly commonly.

It's just, it's it's it's almost like we don't really have space in our national conversations somehow for this relatively simple concept.

Right next to no vaping signs.

I find this completely bizarre that we went from having quite a liberal permissive um regime with regard to vapes because we had a government under, I think, David Cameron, who uh understood that that that vapes were actually a really good way for smokers to transition into um if they didn't want to smoke anymore, having something else to do.

Um but but now every

Every single no-smoking sign I see also has no smoking, no vaping, no smoking and vaping.

And it's just consistently drumming into the heads of people, smoking and vaping, smoking and vaping.

This is identical, this is the same thing, this is just as bad for you.

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