Chinese whispers
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Former Head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove joins Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan’s rocket of right-thinking after British intelligence agencies described the Covid-19 lab leak theory as “feasible” - an idea he has long backed. In an explosive interview, Sir Richard tells listeners why China has behaved “appallingly” over the pandemic, and why he believes the US has intelligence on the origins of the virus. Plus, he has some particularly disquieting words for the WHO.
Also on the show: Liam tells us why he believes Boris Johnson has had a welcome change of heart towards his scientific advisers, Allison channels her inner “Velma”, and our co-pilots defy the pandemic doom-mongers and celebrate “zero Covid day”.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 3rd June from 11am-12pm, and Telegraph subscribers can hear the full Sir Richard Dearlove interview here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/03/china-will-have-destroyed-proof-wuhan-coronavirus-leak-says/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | We keep fetishizing cases. Surely it isn't a bad thing if there are cases of the virus. |
| 0:17.0 | Or... |
| 0:18.0 | There are now more hospitals in the UK than there are COVID patients. |
| 0:23.0 | So they could basically have one each. |
| 0:26.0 | We have been through a period of extraordinary naivety in our relationship with China. |
| 0:34.0 | The Doom Boffins. The Doom Boffins. |
| 0:38.0 | One. |
| 0:42.0 | We have left off. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-Off podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello. |
| 0:52.0 | And me Liam Halligan. Tuesday was zero COVID day. |
| 0:56.0 | No one in the UK who died had tested positive for COVID in the previous 28 days. |
| 1:02.0 | Over the week preceding that, Britain's COVID death rate, with 75% of adults now vaccinated, was 0.12 per million. |
| 1:12.0 | That's 14 times lower than the European Union average. |
| 1:16.0 | Yet still, there are doubts the 21st of June will see remaining lockdown restrictions eased. |
| 1:22.0 | Politicians are crippled by paranoia. The sage boffins, enjoying the bright media lights, are keeping the frighteners on, warning of volcanoes of COVID infection. |
| 1:32.0 | But surely, the lockdown cure has long been worse than the actual disease. |
| 1:38.0 | A record 5 million are on NHS waiting lists. 3 million fewer cancer screenings and 32 million fewer GP appointments over the last year. |
| 1:48.0 | Six months of schooling gone. Millions of young lives upended. Some 3 million workers still on furlough, a tenth of the workforce costing 4 billion pounds a month. |
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