A Midsummer Night's Nightmare
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Janet Daley, columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, plants the Stars and Stripes on Planet Normal this week. She shares her take on Biden’s first 100 days in office with fellow columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson, and reveals why she thinks the United States’ lack of rooted identity is the cause of most of the country's issues today.
Elsewhere, while most of the media is distracted by Number 10’s new curtains, Allison and Liam are more interested in the Post Office scandal, and they celebrate their Oscar predictions after this week's Academy Awards.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 29th April from 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/29/janet-daley-100-days-biden-president-doesnt-yet-know/ |
Read Gordon Rayner: ‘Five reasons why June 21 won’t be the return to normal we thought’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/27/june-21-wont-much-return-normal-thought/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allison-pearson/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Local post offices in villages and small towns, |
| 0:13.0 | they are the centre of their communities. |
| 0:16.0 | For... |
| 0:17.0 | You know, it's show business, it's not show and tell business. |
| 0:22.0 | America has these periods of absolute... |
| 0:25.0 | ...self-lacerating insanity. |
| 0:30.0 | You just like Gregory Peck, don't you? |
| 0:32.0 | Bit dishy. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:42.0 | the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello. |
| 0:46.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:47.0 | It's a John Lewis nightmare. |
| 0:49.0 | Or is it? |
| 0:50.0 | The Westminster Village is fixated on who's paid for the downing street flat road. |
| 0:54.0 | The downing street flat renovation, |
| 0:56.0 | the comings and goings of Boris Johnson's courtyards. |
| 0:59.0 | On Planet Normal, we're more concerned about whether lockdown will really be lifted on the 21st of June. |
| 1:05.0 | There are growing signs it may not be, |
| 1:08.0 | sensible precaution, or mid-summer nights nightmare. |
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