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93: The nanny state is back with a vengeance Sep 14, 2024

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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 episode of Last Orders, Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater discuss Labour’s zealous embrace of public-health paternalism – and whether or not it’s time for Chris to emigrate.
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92: The AI will see you now Aug 31, 2024

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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 discuss whether chatbots are the future of medicine, the sorry state of Irish boozing, and why ‘Gamblegate’ disappeared after the election.
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91: Big Keir is watching you Aug 17, 2024

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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 after the riots, the creepy rise of facial-recognition technology, why booze and nicotine can be good for you, and the return of monkeypox.
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90: How universities fell to censorship Aug 03, 2024

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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 Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, how drinking made Western civilisation and the problem with ‘problem gambling’.
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89: The green zealotry of Ed Miliband Jul 20, 2024

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James Woudhuysen – visiting professor of forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University – returns to Last Orders with Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater. They discuss the Labour government’s disastrous green agenda, the snobbery of the nanny state and the rise of Lucy Letby trutherism.
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88: From Starmer’s gulag Jul 03, 2024

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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 crypto-Stalinist, the Gamble-gate hysteria and the pathetic attempt to turn ‘ultra-processed food’ into the ‘new tobacco’. Plus, we respond to an outraged nutritionist.
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87: You're not singing any more Jun 22, 2024

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Political commentator Benedict Spence joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the shaming of England fans for singing ‘10 German bombers’, the World Health Organisation’s ‘anti-capitalist’ turn and the calls to lower the drink-driving limit.
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86: Farage, cakes and single-use vapes Jun 08, 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 Orders. They discuss what Nigel Farage’s return might mean for the General Election, the panic over nicotine pouches and the pointlessness of the sugar tax.
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85: The snobbery of the ultra-processed-food panic May 25, 2024

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Reem Ibrahim, communications officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss Chris van Tulleken’s latest musings about UPF, why we shouldn’t ban shisha and why we should ban slow-walking in London.
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84: The battle for the soul of Toryism, with David Frost May 11, 2024

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David Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator and Tory peer, joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of <em>Last Orders</em>. They discuss how the Tories became the party of the nanny state, why freedom should be at the heart of politics and the prospects for Conservative electoral renewal.
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