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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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Co-pilot Pearson has a huge announcement this week as she launches legal action against Essex police after her traumatising experience last year. In this episode she explains what has led her to take a stand against such ‘Orwellian’ behaviour…
As Prime Minister Keir Starmer jets to Washington for a meeting with President Trump, your co-pilots ponder whether the Labour Party has changed its tune on defence spending to meet the President’s demands or if it is all statistical smoke and mirrors…
Also boarding the rocket this week is author of ‘Far from Eutopia: How Europe is failing – and Britain could do’, political commentator Ross Clark who reflects on the recent elections in Germany and why the events illustrate a seismic change for Europe.
There’s certainly no shortage of madness stirring your co-pilots juices this week…
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Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Allison: ‘Why I’ve decided to take legal action against the police’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/25/why-ive-decided-to-take-legal-action-against-police/ |
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0:00.0 | Five. |
0:03.8 | The perception of hate is what is now embedded in our police system. |
0:09.2 | Four. |
0:10.9 | It's all performative nonsense, and Trump will see through it for the performative nonsense that it is. |
0:16.9 | When we've got AFD taking around 40% of the working class vote I've seen. |
0:23.8 | You cannot ignore that. |
0:27.0 | Twats, people who only go to work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. |
0:31.6 | Sorry. |
0:32.1 | We have left off. Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
0:43.2 | Hello. |
0:43.9 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
0:46.1 | Alison Pearson's taking legal action against Essex Police. |
0:49.7 | That's the subject of your column in Wednesday's Telegraph, Allison, link in the show notes to this episode. |
0:55.0 | And this follows uniformed police officers turning up on your doorstep, of course, on Remembrance Sunday, in reference to a quickly deleted tweet you posted the previous year. |
1:05.3 | And yet, since then, despite political and public outrage following your case, police forces across the country have continued to pursue these ridiculously named and even more ridiculously conceived non-crime hate incidents, despite the consistent failure to investigate, let alone solve all kinds of genuine crimes, not least burglary. |
1:25.9 | This is a big step by you co-pilot, given the angst and pain you suffered |
1:30.3 | during the Remembrance Sunday episode, and this new case will involve yet more stress. We discuss |
1:36.3 | why you're doing it and why your upcoming action is so important. |
1:40.3 | Keir Stalmers in Washington today Thursday, meeting his former nemesis, Donald Trump. |
1:46.2 | Ahead of that, Stahmer's been sounding more like a Tory or even a reform Prime Minister, |
1:51.3 | pledging to raise military spending from 2.3% of GDP to 2.5% by 2027 and 2.6% the following year, |
2:00.1 | paid for by cutting the foreign aid budget, we're told. Statistical smoke and 2.6% the following year, paid for by cutting the foreign aid budget, we're told. |
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