New year news tsunami
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It's a brand new year on Planet Normal and while the rocket has been taking a well earned break there has been a tsunami of news.
Our co-pilots deliver a no-holds-barred review of Prince Harry’s bombshell book, declaring it a ‘pathetic’ attack on the media that will only result in more supposedly unwanted attention.
Closer to home, as industrial strife and an NHS in crisis strain the Sunak Government, Allison and Liam agree the Labour party is looking more and more like a viable alternative.
Also hopping on board the rocket is author, podcaster and comedian Konstantin Kisin. He tells our co-pilots why, as an immigrant himself, he believes the UK needs to do more to tackle illegal immigration. Konstantin also shares tis thoughts on the latest developments on the war in Ukraine.
And there is a new update from NHS insider ‘George’…
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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 | Oh dear, what a start of the New Year, isn't it? |
| 0:13.0 | No one's on strike. Easily get a hospital appointment. |
| 0:17.0 | It does seem that the narrative is at least starting to shift |
| 0:21.0 | because for so long you were pilloried if you talked about the costs of lockdown. |
| 0:27.0 | It is up to the people of Britain to decide who comes here in what number |
| 0:32.0 | from which country to do what and where. |
| 0:35.0 | 2023, about a backup its ideas, I think. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to a whole New Year of Planet Normal, |
| 0:47.0 | the Telugu-Rof podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello. |
| 0:50.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:52.0 | Amidst a New Year New tsunami, there's one question copilot. |
| 0:56.0 | Which so urgently demands our attention, one burning issue. |
| 0:59.0 | I need to put to you and it's this. |
| 1:02.0 | Have you taken your Christmas tree down yet? |
| 1:05.0 | Are all your decorations now not on display? |
| 1:08.0 | Tucked away instead in their scrappy bits of newspaper. |
| 1:10.0 | And tired, partially popped bubble wrap, |
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