Great British common sense
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former Australian diplomat, Mark Higgie joins Planet Normal this week to tell Telegraph columnists, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why he's got a good feeling about a Brexit trade deal, why it's inaccurate to dress 'no deal' up as 'Australian' and why he urges extreme caution in doing trade deals with China.
Also on the podcast: Allison reveals how a well-placed NHS source says there is no real evidence for the whole of London to go into tier three restrictions, Liam speaks out against a potential Covid Christmas u-turn and we get an update from listener, Robert on a very happy reunion with his wife, Josephine in her care home.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:11.0 | Its policy is not a scientific argument. |
| 0:13.0 | Four. |
| 0:15.0 | We're in for a very rocky road with China. |
| 0:18.0 | They're throwing their weight around in all sorts of ways. |
| 0:22.0 | The European Parliament needs a unanimous vote to go for a wheelie. |
| 0:25.0 | So whether or not it can actually get it's act together to sign off a deal. |
| 0:30.0 | If there's one bridge they hate more than Boris Johnson, it's for all nights on. |
| 0:42.0 | And welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello. |
| 0:48.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:50.0 | It's our 30th voyage in our rocket of right thinking, our capsule of common sense, the Big 3O. |
| 0:56.0 | And who'd have thought back in May when we first blasted off that seven months later we'd still be in lockdown? |
| 1:02.0 | It'll all be over by Christmas wood back then have sounded astonishingly pessimistic. |
| 1:07.0 | Now the government's thinking hard about imposing restrictions even over the festive period. |
| 1:13.0 | And it seems inevitable. |
| 1:15.0 | Despite vaccines being rolled out, that lockdown will be with us until spring. |
| 1:19.0 | It's been a week of contrasts, London and parts of half a cheer and Essex have joined much of the Midlands and the North in Tier 3, |
| 1:26.0 | the most restrictive anti-virus category. |
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