Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Gamble: blackouts and sky-high bills
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
After a brief trip to Planet Earth at the Reform UK party conference, the rocket is back and making sense of the madness, so you don’t have to!
Allison questions Starmer's decision making in light of yet another scandal, this time concerning Lord Peter Madelson and his 'friendship' with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Meanwhile Liam shares his frustration at Labour’s unrealistic net zero targets, which ignore the realities of our energy infrastructure and the harm it could cause the UK economy.
Strapping in with some stark energy warning is leading expert Kathryn Porter who warns Ed Miliband’s energy policy will make us colder and poorer…
Read Allison ‘At the risk of being arrested, I suggest Met chief Mark Rowley is a total muppet’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/09/allison-pearson-graham-linehan-arrest/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Liam ‘Reform has won the immigration argument. Now for the economy’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/07/reform-uk-won-immigration-argument-now-time-economy/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read Kathryn ‘North Sea energy would help Reeves fill her black hole : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/06/its-time-labour-made-a-screeching-u-turn-on-the-north-sea/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:02.0 | Here's to the moment, to the places that give you perspective and the people who change that perspective, |
| 0:16.0 | the curiosity that leads you to the edge of the earth and the joy that meets you there. |
| 0:21.5 | Silver Sea brings you closer to the rare, the remote and the remarkable. |
| 0:26.6 | On spacious yet intimate ships that show you what most miss, |
| 0:31.1 | here's to having every reason to celebrate, to finding more. |
| 0:35.3 | Learn more at silversea.com. |
| 0:43.4 | It's a little bit like saying, oh yes, if there's an outside chance that pigs will fly, |
| 0:48.8 | and that's where you're going to say, yes, it's possible pigs will fly, but it's functionally meaningless. |
| 0:53.3 | Four. |
| 0:54.4 | But Fossey Bear, I mean, he's, you know, he's noted for his lack of acumen. |
| 1:00.0 | Three. |
| 1:01.5 | Two tier written. |
| 1:03.1 | Two tier care. |
| 1:04.3 | Two tier justice. |
| 1:06.0 | Two. |
| 1:07.3 | So you can stick your glittering bodkin where the sun doesn't show in this. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegre of Alison Pearson. |
| 1:24.2 | Hello. |
| 1:24.7 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:26.6 | We're back co-pilot, back on planet normal, |
| 1:29.9 | because last Saturday we released a bonus episode having docked the rocket of right thinking |
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