Tom Slater

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448 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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Last Orders - a spiked podcast · The social-media ban will be a disaster | Last Orders · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Because notwithstanding concerns about child safeguarding or what have you, which are going to exist with any technology, I suppose, it has focused very much on mental health.

There's a lot of best selling books which have been written about how this has been uniquely deleterious to young people's mental health in general, but young girls' mental health in particular.

Do you think there's anything in that or is it just kind of parents projecting their own

And the way in which Starmer has changed his position on this has also been quite interesting.

Because originally he came out against it, I believe, because he talked to his kids and they said they didn't like the sound of it.

So as far as it went.

But now it does seem, Chris, like our old friend a legacy has come back.

Like he really thinks in the same way that Rishi Sunak thought that banning smoking would be the thing that they would build statues to him for.

Keir Starmer thinks, you know, trying and failing to stop kids getting

getting on Instagram will be the reason that it will be inked in the pages of history.

I think so.

Yes.

This is what it is.

So we talked about one of the uh great villains of this podcast, which is Richard Seen.

Shall we talk about one of the great heroes of this podcast and your work, Chris, which is David Hockney, the famed anti-nanny estate campaigner and also I understand quite a good painter as well.

No, you painted, didn't you?

He did.

I I found it out this week.

Um you wrote a brilliant tribute to the great man on spikes this week.

Do you want to remind us a little bit about his um lonely but very passionate fighting

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