More flip-flops than a summer holiday
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Telegraph columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson are back with a bang from their holidays for another much needed trip to Planet Normal.
This week Allison surprises Liam with her sudden reincarnation as a BMX expert, as both hosts celebrate the uplift in mood delivered by Team GB at the Olympic Games. Away from Tokyo, Allison adds the PM to her own 'Amber watchlist' after the government's flip flopping on travel policies, and Liam ruminates on a return of Number 10 versus Number 11 bickering this week.
Also on the podcast: Dr Charles Levinson, founder of private home visit doctor service 'Doctor Call' boards the rocket of right thinking to tell our co-pilots why he thinks the public health response to the pandemic has caused more harm than the virus itself.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 5th August 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/05/public-policy-response-illness-has-caused-harm-illness |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five... |
| 0:10.0 | Boris Johnson, more flip-flops than Kosovoi. |
| 0:14.0 | For... |
| 0:15.0 | I think in this case, the public policy response to this illness has caused more harm than the illness itself. |
| 0:23.0 | Three... |
| 0:24.0 | I never thought Alison Pearson would re-emerge from her holiday as a BMX expert. |
| 0:31.0 | Do you think I can get a year's supply of G&T if I agree to have my booster in October? |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telugu- off-podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello. |
| 0:49.0 | And me, Liam Alligan. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, we should say welcome back, because we've been in Communicardo for the past fortnight. |
| 0:56.0 | But now we're here with Attitude, so strap yourself in and brace brace. |
| 1:01.0 | Copilot Pearson's been sunning her buns in Greece, and so chilled out and revitalised this sheet by her holiday and her house move, she's taken up making jam. |
| 1:11.0 | Finally completing the transformation from working class girl from the world's valleys into the comfort of England's respectable middle class. |
| 1:18.0 | But when it comes to her journalism fear not, not even a John Lewis Gold card and countless Jerusalem renditions contain the Welsh pit pony. |
| 1:27.0 | Both your planet Normal Copilot is in fact a gobsmacked by the ongoing lack of grip displayed by her Majesty's government. |
| 1:34.0 | On again off of again travel restrictions, an increasingly testy cabinet, emerging tensions between Prime Minister and Chancellor, and now even Britain's magnificent vaccine rollout is significantly slowing. |
| 1:46.0 | COVID infections are down copilot by some 20% over the last week. |
| 1:52.0 | The link between cases and hospitalisations and deaths is so much weaker than it was. |
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