Paul Staines – founding editor of Guido Fawkes – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss whether Westminster muckraking is a dying art, why Labour wants to ban adverts for porridge, and why young people should do more drugs.
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99: Non-crimes and the misery of veganism
Writer and commentator Candice Holdsworth joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, our nanny-state podcast. They discuss Allison Pearson’s visit from the thoughtpolice, the junk statistics about junk-food ‘addiction’, and why Dale Vince can do one.
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98: The banter era returns
Reem Ibrahim – communications manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the hilarious backlash to Donald Trump’s re-election, the revival of the smoking ban, and why adults like flavoured vapes, too.
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97: Fat jabs, speed and the banter police
Julia Hartley-Brewer, Simon Evans and Kate Andrews joined Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for this very special edition of the Last Orders podcast, recorded live at the Battle of Ideas festival in Westminster on Saturday 19 October. They discussed the rise of Ozempic, Labour’s plan to cleanse pubs of offensive speech, why weed is the boring drug, how speed could solve our productivity problem, and much more.
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96: See Last Orders *live* this weekend
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