Last Orders - a spiked podcast
Episodes
Why we need more drunk MPs
02 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Simmons, economics editor of the Spectator, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Hannah Spen...
Reform’s war on the fun police
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Chris Whitty’s French fat camp
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The insanity of vape bans
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How Labour became the fun police
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The TaxPayers’ Alliance’s Anne Strickland joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Labour’s misera...
Arrested for vaping: Singapore’s prohibitionist nightmare | Last Orders
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 pla...
Tony Lapidus: the internet’s impressionist
12 Jan 2026
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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 d...
The tyranny of Starmer’s Labour
23 Dec 2025
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David Frost, unaffiliated peer and incoming director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest e...
Joey Barton’s ‘grossly offensive’ conviction
13 Dec 2025
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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, ...
Rachel Reeves’s milkshake shakedown
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-lockd...
First they came for the cigarettes
17 Nov 2025
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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...
The British thirst for freedom
02 Nov 2025
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James Price, writer and former government adviser, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss whether Brit...
Filterless fags and drunk-driving licences
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The nanny state can BOGOF
08 Oct 2025
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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...
What’s the point of the Lib Dems?, with Julia Hartley-Brewer
26 Sep 2025
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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-democ...
Reform vs the nanny state, with Mike Graham
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 whet...
Can you be addicted to junk food?
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 lim...
The state we’re in, with Steve Baker
09 Aug 2025
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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...
Votes for children
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
The truth about the Epstein list
12 Jul 2025
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Brendan O’Neill joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss whether the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory is unravelling, the latest Lucy Letby ar...
Hot for Letby
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 expe...
113: The vape gang wars
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
112: Do we even need doctors?
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
111: The most miserable places in Europe
17 May 2025
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The IEA’s Reem Ibrahim joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the Nanny State Index, the new trade deals with India and the US, and the defun...
110: The insanity of the war on vapes
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The great Claire Fox joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for another episode of Last Orders, the spiked podcast all about freedom and the nanny state. ...
109: Is there really ‘no safe level’ of drinking?
20 Apr 2025
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Comedian and writer Dominic Frisby joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for another episode of Last Orders, the spiked podcast all about freedom and the...
108: The death of the Great British boozer
06 Apr 2025
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Luke Johnson joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, the spiked podcast all about freedom and the nanny state. They ...
107: Banter bouncers and black-market cigs
22 Mar 2025
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Stand-up comedian Leo Kearse joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, spiked’s nanny-state podcast. They discuss La...
106: The nonsense of Islamophobia
08 Mar 2025
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Freddie Attenborough from the Free Speech Union joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. The...
105: Does the UK need a DOGE?
22 Feb 2025
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William Yarwood from the Taxpayers’ Alliance joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, spiked’s nanny-state podcas...
104: DeepSeek, deep-fried coriander and Lucy Letby
08 Feb 2025
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Timandra Harkness – author of Technology is Not the Problem – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-...
103: Think before you post
25 Jan 2025
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spiked columnist Luke Gittos joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss the post-...
102: The vibe shift
12 Jan 2025
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GB News presenter Tom Harwood joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss how Trum...
101: Liquid lunches in North Korea
21 Dec 2024
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Patrick Christys – presenter for GB News – and Gawain Towler – former head of press for Reform UK – join Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for a ve...
100: Scandal, gossip and Guido Fawkes
08 Dec 2024
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Paul Staines – founding editor of Guido Fawkes – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast...
99: Non-crimes and the misery of veganism
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and commentator Candice Holdsworth joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They disc...
98: The banter era returns
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reem Ibrahim – communications manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Ord...
97: Fat jabs, speed and the banter police
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Hartley-Brewer, Simon Evans and Kate Andrews joined Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for this very special edition of the Last Orders podcast, recor...
96: See Last Orders *live* this weekend
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is your last chance to get tickets to see us at the Battle of Ideas festival this weekend. On Saturday, at Church House in Westminster, we’ll b...
95: Why London’s nightlife is dying
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Lesh – public policy fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs and country manager for Freshwater Strategy – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom...
94: Does Chris Whitty run the country?
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josie Appleton, director of the Manifesto Club, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Chris Whitty’...
93: The nanny state is back with a vengeance
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Smoking bans, a crackdown on junk food, state-sanctioned fat-shaming… it’s been a miserable few weeks in Keir Starmer’s Britain. In the latest e...
92: The AI will see you now
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Lyons, science and technology director at the Academy of Ideas, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They dis...
91: Big Keir is watching you
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
90: How universities fell to censorship
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Edu...
89: The green zealotry of Ed Miliband
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Woudhuysen – visiting professor of forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University – returns to Last Orders with Chris Snowdon an...
88: From Starmer’s gulag
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
87: You're not singing any more
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Political commentator Benedict Spence joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the shaming of England fa...
86: Farage, cakes and single-use vapes
08 Jun 2024
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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 Order...
85: The snobbery of the ultra-processed-food panic
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reem Ibrahim, communications officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. T...
84: The battle for the soul of Toryism, with David Frost
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator and Tory peer, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss how ...
83: Why we shouldn’t ban smoking – or the hate marches
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
82: The free-speech wars in comedy
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Revi...
81: How local councils went woke
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John O’Connell – chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They d...
80: Vape juice, cigars and extremism
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Candice Holdsworth joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss sin taxes on vaping, the call to ban cigars ...
79: Prince Harry vs the press
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mick Hume joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Prince Harry’s beef with the tabloids, banning smartphones for under-16s and whether believi...
78: Hands off our vapes
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Harrison Griffiths joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Rishi Sunak’s crusade against vaping, the tyranny of the World Health Organisation ...
77: Starmer’s nanny state
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Lyons, science and technology director at the Academy of Ideas, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They dis...
76: Punching down
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lou Perez, comedian and author of That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They disc...
75: The year freedom went up in smoke
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Spectator’s Kate Andrews joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. In this special end-of-year round-up, they di...
74: AI is not going to kill us all
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Orlowski joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the hysteria over AI, New Zealand’s u-turn on...
73: Should schools be free to indoctrinate?
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don’t Divide Us, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the rise o...
72: Live at the Battle of Ideas!
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Telegraph’s Madeline Grant and GB News’s Patrick Christys joined Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for a very special live episode of Last Orders a...
71: Australia’s Brexit moment
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Lesh, director of public policy and communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest epi...
70: Sunak’s smoking ban
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick O’Flynn, political commentator and former MEP, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Rishi ...
69: An ultra-processed panic
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Warner, food writer, author and self-styled Angry Chef, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss...
68: Can liberalism survive trans ideology?
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Glendening, head of cultural affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orde...
67: Bring back wolves?
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stand-up comedian and spiked columnist Simon Evans joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the witch-hu...
66: What happened to the Edinburgh Fringe?
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Leo Kearse joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss woke censorship in comedy, the junk science...
65: Why Net Zero is a dangerous fantasy
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Schoellhammer – assistant professor in economics and political science at Webster University Vienna – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for...
64: Sadiq Khan’s war on cake
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James Woudhuysen – visiting professor of forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the l...
63: The shameful suppression of the lab-leak theory
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason and co-host of Rising on The Hill TV, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. T...
62: The scourge of the Online Safety Bill
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Order...
61: Will Britain ever legalise drugs?
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul North, director of Volteface, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the worst nanny states in Eu...
60: The fight for free speech at Oxford
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jan Macvarish – education and events director of the Free Speech Union – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the attempt to No Platform ...
59: How identity politics is tearing Australia apart
06 May 2023
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Australian journalist Nick Cater joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the hysteria over Coco Pops, George Osborne’s deranged attacks on smo...
58: What’s Just Stop Oil’s problem with snooker?
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian and writer Dominic Frisby joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Just Stop Oil's stunt at the Crucible, the government’s plan for st...
57: Why the nos ban is no laughing matter, with Mark Littlewood
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Littlewood – director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs – joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss the laughing-gas ban, the coming cra...
56: How blasphemy trials returned to Britain, with Liam Duffy
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Duffy – strategic advisor for the Counter Extremism Project – joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss the Islamist threat to free speech, the pan...
55: Has the lab-leak theory been vindicated?, with Matt Ridley
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Ridley – co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 – joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss Covid cover-ups, the Lockdown Files ...
54: Britain’s Covid Ministry of Truth, with Silkie Carlo
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big Brother Watch’s Silkie Carlo joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the government’s war on lockdown sceptics, Nicola Sturgeon’s nann...
53: The uselessness of electric cars, with Andrew Orlowski
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Orlowski joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss the idiocy of our green elites, the rise and fall of FTX, and the cult of booze prohibition. Beco...
52: Passive cake, with Francis Foster
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Francis Foster joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss the miserabilism of the nanny state, the ridiculousness of Seatbeltgate, and the authoritarian lega...
51: Fight for your right to smoke, with Patrick Christys
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Christys joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss Labour’s war on smoking, Prince Harry’s crusade against the tabloids, and how wokeness has in...
50: The perils of a cashless society, with Geoff Norcott
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Geoff Norcott joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss cash, smoking and Elon Musk. Get tickets to Geoff’s work-in-progress shows her...
49: Hands off the internet
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Peters, GB News documentary filmmaker, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the Online Safety Bill, Nicola Sturgeon’s nanny state, ...
48: The Woke World Cup, with Julia Hartley-Brewer
26 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Hartley-Brewer, TalkTV’s breakfast-show host, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss knee-taking, free speech on campus, the campaign t...
47: The red trickle, with Nick Gillespie
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Gillespie, editor-at-large of Reason, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the Midterms, the war on nicotine, Elon Musk and more. Sen...
46: The lies of the nanny state, with Rod Liddle
19 Oct 2022
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Rod Liddle, journalist and member of the SDP, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the propaganda war on smokers, the madness of Just Stop Oi...
45: Liz Truss vs the Blob, with Sam Ashworth-Hayes
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Ashworth-Hayes joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss Liz Truss’s war on the nanny state. Plus, we discuss James O’Brien’s queue cons...
44: How the middle classes ruined comedy, with Leo Kearse
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Leo Kearse joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the cancellation of Jerry Sadowitz, the perilous state of pubs and the moral crusade...
43: The monkeypox panic
06 Aug 2022
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Joanna Williams, author of How Woke Won, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss monkeypox, the fall of the Tavistock and the rise of Britain’...
42: The war on smokers, with Claire Fox
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Fox, director of the Academy of Ideas, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the plans for a smoke-free England and abortion rights aft...
41: Why Jamie Oliver can BOGOF
28 May 2022
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Patrick O’Flynn joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss Partygate, Ricky Gervais and Jamie Oliver. Enjoy! And be sure to email any questions or commen...
40: Musk Derangement Syndrome, with Andrew Doyle
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
GB News’ Andrew Doyle joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss Big Tech censorship, ‘grossly offensive’ jokes and calorie counts on menus. Get your...
39: Will Smith and the tyranny of takes, with Brendan O’Neill
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan O’Neill joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the hot takes from the Oscars, the cost-of-living crisis and the Batley Grammar scanda...
38: Is Covid finally over?, with Dominic Frisby
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The end of Covid rules, Nadine Dorries vs Jimmy Carr, and the law of unintended consequences… comedian and financial writer Dominic Frisby joins Sno...
37: Another year on plague island
21 Dec 2021
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Vaccines, variants, Matt Hancock’s wandering hands… spiked columnist Rob Lyons joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to look back on the highs and lo...
36: A new strain of panic, with Simon Evans
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Omicron variant, America on the verge of breakdown and the genius of Barry Humphries – Simon Evans joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss. Become...
35: Will the lockdown lobby ever stop?
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Covid restrictions, David’s Law, Dave Chappelle and Scotland’s nanny state -- Charlie Peters joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss. Be...