110: The insanity of the war on vapes

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, Australia’s nanny-state gang wars and the dodgy stats about drinking. Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift, the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more – or £30 or more, if you’re a spiked supporter – to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spiked-online.com/xmas/  Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/      Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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-lockdown lies of the Covid inquiry and Zack Polanski’s fairytale economics. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/      Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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’s crackdown on nicotine, the panic over childhood obesity and the long history of BBC bias. Get your tickets to the premiere of Think Before You Post, on Tuesday 25 November in London: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/  Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/      Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Price, writer and former government adviser, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss whether Brits are more libertarian than the politicians think, why Rachel Reeves is going after the gambling industry, and James’s role in the ousting of Oxford Union president-elect George Abaraonye. Watch Think Before You Post, our documentary on the rise of the British speech police, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0smxO4WiOA Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the nanny-state plot to make smoking more harmful, Joe Wicks’s ultra-processed grift and why Zoomers are dodging after-work drinks. Plus, the audience weighed in with their questions – and bans. Not to be missed. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  See the Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 19 October, featuring special guests Patrick Christys and Dominic Frisby. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=SPIKED  Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Listen, share and give us a glowing review on your podcast app. Also, send your postbag questions to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices