A cacophony of woe
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
**Today's episode was recorded before the General Election announcement**
There’s not one but two scandals to comment on this week as both the infected blood and Post office inquiries are front and centre. And both co-pilots share impassioned views about the latest ‘cacophony of woe’ coming from both.
Allison thinks that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s response was unacceptable in the face of a ‘state sponsored massacre’.
Whilst Liam says more eyes should be on the civil service in these inquiries who he thinks have been very good at ‘wriggling out of blame’.
Also strapping into the rocket this week is MP for Canterbury, Rosie Duffield who gives her thoughts on the current Labour Party and why NHS maternity services have been letting down women for decades.
And the countdown is on for the upcoming Planet Normal live event to celebrate the 200th orbit of the rocket…
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Allison ‘Horizon, maternity, infected blood – what other scandals await corrupt Britain?’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/05/21/infected-blood-scandal-horizon-maternity-corrupt-britain/ |
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Orlando Bird, the Telegraph Letters Editor. |
| 0:05.0 | Everyone knows that you, our readers and listeners are the sharpest and wittiest in the world. |
| 0:10.0 | And now you can join me every Friday for my newsletter, letters to the editor, where |
| 0:15.3 | I survey the week's best contributions on the subjects you care about most. |
| 0:20.2 | Will the government make it to the end of the month? Would a return to British Rail really be so bad? |
| 0:25.0 | And most importantly, what's the correct way to boil an egg? |
| 0:29.0 | Sign up and join the debate at telegraph.co. UK |
| 0:33.8 | forward slash letters. 5. How bad does your conduct have to be in a position of trust before you are actually brought to book? |
| 0:52.0 | 4. We could possibly have the Grenfell report coming out this year. An absolute |
| 0:59.1 | trio of disgrace and condemnation for the British state. |
| 1:04.0 | That's the irony, but that's what the spin doctors will have tried to point me as, |
| 1:09.0 | you know, that I'm at odds with the late party. |
| 1:11.0 | When are some of these people going to be prosecuted and going to jail? |
| 1:17.0 | One. |
| 1:18.0 | We have the star. |
| 1:28.0 | Welcome once against a planet normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Allison Pearson. Hello. |
| 1:29.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:31.0 | The Infected Blood Inquiry has finally concluded Allison, after a five-year |
| 1:35.9 | investigation with the inquiry's chair former High Court Judge Sir Brian Langstaff not |
| 1:41.6 | minsting's words. |
| 1:43.4 | This is a scandal that's seen thousands of Brits infected |
| 1:46.3 | by contaminated blood between 1970 and 1998, |
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