A whole new level of lunacy
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Iain Duncan Smith is this week's Planet Normal stowaway, joining Telegraph columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson to discuss the 'real danger' of annual winter lockdowns, and to tell listeners why it's time for the West to stand up to the 'desperate threat' posed by China's economy, military and ideology.
Elsewhere, Freedom Day? More like Freedom Nay. Our co-pilots threaten to move to an entirely new solar system after the PM's recent announcement that June 21st is off. Allison comes close to self-combusting, while Liam tells us why he believes politicians have become 'addicted to lockdown'. Plus, a listener email has one of our hosts reaching for the tissues.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | I think planet normal. |
| 0:11.0 | I think we may actually have to really consider moving to a different solar system with this level of lunacy. |
| 0:18.0 | For... |
| 0:19.0 | I'm starting to wonder if our politicians, as we've said in the past, are addicted to lockdown. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm sorry because I do think that we could unlock now and we should unlock now. |
| 0:33.0 | If Boris didn't let her wedding go ahead, I would walk naked down Whitehall with a flame thrower. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:54.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:56.0 | Sub Boris has fluffed it. |
| 0:58.0 | There we were all set for a freedom day on the 21st of June. |
| 1:01.0 | A final lifting of anti-covid restrictions. |
| 1:04.0 | Yet that's now been pushed in the 19th of July. |
| 1:08.0 | Michael Gove then weighed in, saying even that later date might not mark the end of this ghastly lockdown. |
| 1:15.0 | No matter that the UK's outperform the government's so-called road map on almost every metric, |
| 1:21.0 | vaccine take-up and effectiveness, and the still incredibly low number of hospitalisations and fatalities linked to COVID. |
| 1:29.0 | We're still being asked to stage weddings without dancing, hugging, and with tables limited to six. |
| 1:35.0 | And our schools and huge hospitality and leisure industry remain badly disrupted for a second summer running. |
| 1:43.0 | Yes, COVID cases are rising, not least of the so-called Delta variant. |
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