Anti-semitism is clearly out of control in the UK
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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In this week’s dispatch from the sanctuary of sweet reason, your co-pilots of sanity Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson, address the rise of antisemitic attacks in Britain, including the chilling firebombing of Jewish charity ambulances in North London.
Alison shares her continuing case against Essex’s police and crime commissioner, as well as the county’s police force over a post on X, which has since been deleted, which led officers to investigate her for a potential offence of ‘inciting racial hatred’.
Liam is dismayed at the cognitive dissonance in government promising an ‘AI revolution’ while the national grid remains unfit for purpose, warning that the government’s green activists are threatening the very data centers needed for the technological future they claim to champion.
Returning stowaway is former adviser to then-Chancellor George Osborne, Helen Thomas, CEO of Blonde Money who tells your co-pilots why Labour is signing its own death warrant…
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Read Allison ‘If Nadiya Hussain thinks she’s suffered from BBC discrimination, she should try being a white man’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/18/nadiya-hussain-bbc-discrimination/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read ‘Allison Pearson sues police chief over social media investigation’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/24/allison-pearson-sues-essex-police-chief-social-media/ |
Read Liam ‘Artificial intelligence won’t solve Britain’s looming fiscal crisis’:
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.0 | She wants the cops policing the streets, not policing, tweets. |
| 0:15.4 | Four. |
| 0:17.1 | Anti-Semitism is clearly out of control in the UK. |
| 0:21.8 | Three. |
| 0:23.3 | More and more people aren't paying the licence fee. |
| 0:25.9 | They're not watching television. |
| 0:27.6 | Two. |
| 0:28.9 | Those things are inextricably linked, the economy and defence of your realm. |
| 0:33.6 | One. |
| 0:44.8 | We have left off. Welcome. Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:55.7 | Hello. And me, Liam Halligan. It's almost a month now since Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, sparking the most serious Middle East conflict in decades. Tehrans hit back with retaliatory airstrikes on Israel, which in turn |
| 1:02.1 | has invaded southern Lebanon. We've also seen Iranian missile and drone attacks on other |
| 1:07.6 | Gulf states. The Strait of Hormers remains closed to most commercial shipping, roiling global energy |
| 1:14.6 | markets, with transit activity through the Key Waterway down some 80% curtailing oil and gas |
| 1:21.3 | exports from the Gulf. |
| 1:23.3 | And with a swift end to this war unlikely, and major energy infrastructure now suffering serious damage, |
| 1:29.7 | the political, diplomatic and economic implications of this conflict could be with us for months, |
| 1:35.9 | possibly even years to come. |
| 1:39.0 | Meanwhile, Tory MP and Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy has sparked controversy by describing a mass Muslim |
| 1:46.5 | prayer event in London's Trafalgar Square as, quotes, an act of domination. And two men were |
| 1:53.2 | yesterday arrested after an anti-Semitic firebomb attack in North London, one among a growing |
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