"I told you so" doesn't quite say it
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lot to discuss this week; the latest lockdown report, Sir Keir Starmer taking on the Unions and some High Court action. Your co-pilots are strapped in ready to give their take.
It's a big week for the covid misinformation brigade as the latest lockdown report lands in the rocket. Is retribution in the air? As for the country's own inquiry, it all seems to be taking an awfully long time (as Liam says, even the Italians have finished theirs!) .
The co-pilots also examine Sir Keir Starmer’s latest net zero policies. Allison thinks its supporters need to get out of 'Ed Milliband’s windmills of your mind' and into the real world. While Liam thinks the policies will cause implications for our carbon footprint and could cost more.
Also strapping into the rocket this week is author and journalist Brendan O'Neill who tells our co-pilots the negative labelling of free speech could have damning consequences for our democracy, as laid out in his new book, A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable.
And brace yourselves, there’s a spot of karaoke from our co-pilots…
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| 0:27.0 | Slashpuzzles, dash planet normal, today. |
| 0:39.0 | It has been a very big week for the naughty Covid disinformation brigade. |
| 0:45.0 | For the clamp down on so-called hatred or hate speech, actually green lights hatred. |
| 0:53.0 | These people have to live in the real world, not in Ed Miliband's windmills of your mind. |
| 1:00.0 | It's completely mad, the Swedes have finished their Covid inquiry. |
| 1:05.0 | The Italians have finished their Covid inquiry. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu- |
| 1:16.8 | Podcasts with Alison Pearson. Hello and Mealy Imhalligan. |
| 1:21.0 | The benefits of lockdown were quotes a drop in the bucket compared to the costs end quotes. |
| 1:27.0 | No, that's not a reference to what Alison and I were telling Planet Normal listeners back in the summer of 2020, |
| 1:32.0 | just a few months into the pandemic lockdown. |
| 1:35.0 | That drop in the bucket quotation comes from a landmark study conducted by scientists at Washington's John Hopkins University, |
| 1:43.0 | one of the world's most respected medical schools, together with the highly prestigious Lund University in Sweden. |
| 1:50.0 | Researchers say Draconian measures taken in spring 2020 had quotes negligible impact on Covid mortality compared with lighter touch countries. |
| 2:00.0 | Lockdown saved as few as 1,700 lives in England, Wales in spring 2020 according to this study, |
| 2:06.0 | which concluded the benefits of the policy were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed. |
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