Jingle Bell Rocket
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The bells are ringing, the Christmas spirit has well and truly hit the rocket. Joining your co-pilots in looking back at the highs and lows of 2023 as well as giving their predictions for 2024 is Telegraph columnists Con Coughlin and Tim Stanley. Was 2023 the year of immigration? Is the Tory party as we know it finished? And what’s on the cards for European politics and elsewhere across the world next year? Only this rocket has the answers.
Co-pilot Pearson has her gongs at the ready but who will be the worthy winner of the Allison Pearson ‘Hell Bent on Extinction’ award, the abuse of the English language award and finally the ‘For God’s Sake Make it Stop’ Award?
And your co-pilots open the rocket’s mailbag for the final time this year.
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
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Read Allison: ‘My awards for 2023: from Michelle Mone to Harry and Meghan, it was a year of utter shamelessness’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/12/20/michellle-mone-harry-and-meghan-awards-for-2023/ |
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| 0:00.0 | 5. Let us savour the idea that the Conservative government might fall in a storm of knickers. |
| 0:07.0 | 4. |
| 0:08.0 | Our political and media class keeps telling us how nasty we all are and how institutionally difficult the UK is finding |
| 0:15.2 | it to cope with this immigration question. |
| 0:17.2 | M. I. 6 and M. I. 5. Bless them. So obsessed with their own woke culture and their rainbow lanyards that you know I just |
| 0:26.6 | wonder how effective a job they're doing these days. |
| 0:30.7 | Assuming that the Tories are left with about 12 seats next year, you just know that their |
| 0:35.1 | conclusion is going to be that they were two right-wing. |
| 0:37.8 | One. |
| 0:38.8 | We have left off. And welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Alice and Pearson. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello? |
| 0:49.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, Christmas is almost a PONUS co-pilot. Trees are being decorated, fridges are being |
| 0:55.3 | stuffed to bursting point with food and for all you last minute merchants out there, there's |
| 0:59.7 | just a few shopping days left before the 25th of December. |
| 1:03.6 | And as the year draws to a close, it's time to look back on 2023 and look forward to the year |
| 1:08.6 | ahead and will be joined during this visit to Planet Normal by none other than Tim Stanley and |
| 1:13.5 | Kong Cocklan, two of the Telegraph's most distinguished columnists. |
| 1:17.2 | We'll be discussing everything from wars in Ukraine in the Middle East to the US |
| 1:20.7 | elections in November and of course a general election here in the UK. |
| 1:25.0 | Plus Allison you'll be giving out some end of year gongs. |
| 1:28.0 | Nominating your Political Party Helbent on Extinction Award, your Abuse of the English Language Award, and your |
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