Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 1
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this, the first of the Best of the Rocket 2025, co-pilots Pearson and Halligan dig into the data files for some of their most explosive voyages on the rocket of right thinking from this year.
There’s been no shortage of madness on the rocket over the past few months, the peak of which was definitely when Chancellor Rachel Reeves cried in the Commons and the leader of the RMT said ‘stuff it’ to the markets.
There’s also been an abundance of politicians and political agitators that have graced the rocket this year, and we begin with discussions surrounding the bias of the BBC with Jake Wallis Simons, and Epping Reform deputy leader, Orla Minihane.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. Welcome to Planet Normal, The Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. Hello. And me, Liam |
| 0:14.2 | Halligan. It's 26 and a very happy new year to Planet Normal listeners. Co-pilot Pearson and I are taking a yawl tide break. |
| 0:24.1 | Whilst she ventures down under, throwing another shrimp on the Barbie, |
| 0:28.0 | I'm currently in the US visiting family and friends. |
| 0:31.5 | We'll be back on Thursday the 22nd of January in the cockpit of the rocket of right thinking. |
| 0:37.3 | But in the meantime, over the next |
| 0:38.8 | few weeks, we're bringing you some best of interviews from 2025, some of the stairways who've |
| 0:45.2 | joined us on the flying refuge of reasoned views. Now, back in November, Alison spoke to award-winning |
| 0:52.5 | journalist, foreign correspondent, and author Jake Wallace Simons. |
| 0:57.0 | Until recently, Jake's been the popular editor of the Jewish Chronicle. |
| 1:01.0 | He's now a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and does a podcast called The Brink, with defence analyst Andrew Fox. |
| 1:08.0 | Following on from his 2023 book, Israeli phobia, Alison spoke to Jake in November about his |
| 1:14.8 | latest work, never again, how the West betrayed the Jews in itself, as well as the then |
| 1:20.4 | unfolding scandal of the BBC's panorabre program, splicing Donald Trump's January the sixth speech. |
| 1:28.1 | Alison started by asking, Jake, if Michael Prescott's leaked BBC review into the incident |
| 1:33.7 | highlighted some of the biases at the BBC, especially when it comes to coverage of Israel and Gaza. |
| 1:42.2 | He did. I mean, it's been a weird thing because the BBC seem almost to be using |
| 1:47.3 | their monstrous failure with regard to splicing that Trump tape together to, as a, as a |
| 1:53.6 | smoke screen for hiding once again the rampant Israelophobia, which seems to run through not just BBC Arabic, although it's |
| 2:02.4 | absolutely appalling. I mean, you know, BBC Arabic, I mean, some of the things they're guilty |
| 2:06.8 | of include not criticising Hamas and not covering the suffering of Israelis. I mean, it's just, |
| 2:12.8 | you know, talk about Hamas mouthpiece, BBC Arabic has become that, but also through newsnight and other, |
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