Filterless fags and drunk-driving licences

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

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 lockdown sent everyone mad. Go to https://surfshark.com/lastorders or use code LASTORDERS at checkout to get four extra months of Surfshark VPN! 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. Get tickets to see Simon: https://thesimonevans.com/  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

Brendan O’Neill joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss whether the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory is unravelling, the latest Lucy Letby arrests and the seductive lure of supermarket deals. Go to https://surfshark.com/lastorders or use code LASTORDERS at checkout to get four extra months of Surfshark VPN! 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

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 expect from the grooming-gangs inquiry, and the Ghana Drunkards Association. 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

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 Australia’s crackdown on vaping and smoking has led to firebombings, the death-cap mushroom killer, and where Chris should emigrate to.   Go to https://surfshark.com/lastorders or use code LASTORDERS at checkout to get four extra months of Surfshark VPN! 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/