And they're back...
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
There’s a chill in the air and the schools are back, which means Planet Normal is ready to blast off again, and there’s been no shortage of madness to contend with.
Both our co-pilots are digesting the conviction of neonatal nurse, Lucy Letby, for the shocking murder of seven babies and question the bureaucratic issues that might have led to such an unthinkable crime.
As we steam towards the party conferences, aka the ‘starting gun’ for the General Election next year, our co-pilots examine the Government which Allison calls ‘rudderless and burnt out’ and Liam explains why he thinks the ULEZ roll out has been ‘cack handed’.
Also boarding the rocket is Reverend Richard Fothergill, who tells our co-pilots how his account at the Yorkshire Building Society was closed after he gave them feedback about their support for transgender ideologies.
And Allison has returned from her holiday to Turkey with a furry souvenir…
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Read Allison:’The Letby case has revealed an NHS rancid with cover-up and corruption’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/08/22/lucy-letby-nhs-managers-grotesque-stupidity-and-cowardice/ |
Read Allison: ‘The kiss of death for Spanish machismo’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/the-kiss-of-death-for-spanish-machismo/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | We have a government which is rudderless, burnt out. |
| 0:14.0 | Exactly as the conservatives were in 1997. |
| 0:19.0 | Normal people in every walk of life |
| 0:21.0 | and not necessarily just people of faith at all |
| 0:24.0 | are pushing back and saying no, let's have some reality here. |
| 0:28.0 | You guys, I don't think it will last the extension |
| 0:30.0 | because this has been rolled out in a really kickhandy way. |
| 0:34.0 | Isn't it a bit of an overreaction? |
| 0:36.0 | Yes, but it's not woke to care about good manners |
| 0:40.0 | and decent behaviour on an occasion like that. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:51.0 | the Telegraph. Podcasts without us in person. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:54.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:55.0 | And we're back. |
| 0:57.0 | There's a chill in the air, the kids are about to return |
| 0:59.0 | to school the summer's almost over. |
| 1:01.0 | But worry not because you can, once again, |
| 1:03.0 | hop aboard the rocket of right-thinking, |
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