March of the BBC’s ‘tinfoil hat’ brigade
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
After a Telegraph bombshell, both the BBC Director-General and Head of BBC News are OUT as the corporation is exposed for its "FAR LEFT ideological capture".
Our co-pilots take a look at the shocking truth behind the billion-dollar lawsuit threat from President Donald Trump after a Panorama team edited his speech on January 6th 2021. Allison details the biased coverage of Israel and Gaza as well as gender issues, where "smug and arrogant" staffers tried to censor news and silence "normal women".
As Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget looms ever closer, Liam details the incoming fiscal madness as it now seems Labour will break its manifesto pledge and raise income tax.
Joining your co-pilots on the rocket this week is Jake Wallis Simons, award-winning journalist, foreign correspondent, and author of Israel Phobia and his latest, Never again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and itself. Jake joins us to detail the BBC's "damning" coverage of Israel and Gaza and why the Panorama scandal is just a smoke screen for their other mistakes.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.0 | It could not be a more grotesque breach of journalistic ethics. It really couldn't. |
| 0:19.4 | We can no longer afford to let our residual fondness for the BBC look away and see it becoming |
| 0:26.4 | an ideological instrument of the left. |
| 0:29.3 | Three. |
| 0:30.5 | There's never been a generation of younger people that are fuller of their own opinions and wanting |
| 0:36.0 | to dictate the opinions of adults. |
| 0:40.1 | Two. |
| 0:41.2 | There are some real glaring examples of BBC journalists in my view. |
| 0:44.9 | We're just propagandists. |
| 0:46.6 | One. |
| 0:50.1 | We have left off. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:57.5 | Hello. |
| 0:58.4 | And me, Liam Halligan. Great to have you back co-pilot and you've returned to Planet Normal in the nick of time. |
| 1:05.5 | In the nick of time, that is, for us to put the finishing touches to your application to become BBC Director General. |
| 1:12.7 | There's a vacancy, of course, after Auntie's top boss resigned, along with Head of News, Deborah Turness. |
| 1:19.0 | It was the Telegraph which published an internal BBC memo highlighting a string of unfortunate editorial mistakes, |
| 1:26.6 | not least an episode of panorama which spliced |
| 1:29.3 | together parts of a Donald Trump speech wrongly giving the impression that President was inciting |
| 1:34.8 | a riot. Now Trump's threatening to sue the BBC for a billion pounds. Over 39,000 illegal |
| 1:42.5 | migrants have entered the UK so far this year, with many housed in hotels at taxpayers' expense. |
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