Last Orders Podcast

Celebrity meltdowns (2:41), Reece Wabara/MDV discourse (6:18), phone hacking case (45:35) - lastly, why are white working class boys behind in school (52:57).

How do you spend your Christmas celebrations?? Do you host, visit different family members or share a split? (24:04) Should we ALWAYS collect the bag or are some brand deals unauthentic (30:06). Which career switches would you not support your partner with (41:55)? RIP Benjamin Zephaniah (57:40) and lastly; Diddy’s recent court case(s) (1:05:50).

The weird Westminster bubble becomes even weirder: Suella Braverman is GONE and David Cameron is BACK! 

There’s also a Minister Of Common Sense now; we try to make sense of it all and ask if Sunak bringing back Cameron is bold or desperate.

Also on the agenda: should problematic people be platformed? (27:04), the power of money and people’s unrealistic expectations regarding finances (39:17), renting v mortgage conundrum (63:14) and the realisation that Ghanaians love a funeral! (78:29)  

The dynamic duo are back! Sash and Smooth get back into it and on the agenda this week…

Smooth concludes that he has become a “Karen” and talks about how he unwittingly went viral on Twitter after he blasted Southern Rail online (01:19), Sash is now a year older! Happy birthday! (07:56), they share their views about what is happening in the Gaza Strip (18:22), the UK government are still in dispute with the transport trade unions (45:49), later in the episode, Smooth treats the pod as a therapy session and lets off steam about how rubbish his team - Man Utd has been recently. (1:06:00)

On the agenda this week...

We talk about the wave of strike action that has happened over the last few months across various parts of the public sector (09:28), TW: transgender rapist Isla Bryson and the Scottish government’s decision to remove her from a women’s prison (46:30), after the news of Gary Glitter being recalled back to jail due to breaching the terms and conditions of his release, we discuss whether sex offenders can ever be fully reformed after serving their time (52:47), and finally - we speak on the worst pieces of advice we’ve been given. (1:03:31)