Not a first class health service
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lot of madness orbiting the rocket this week as your co-pilots tackle the latest ghastly news from the NHS and author JK Rowling's reaction to the latest SNP legislation, not to mention the redesign of our Union Jack for the Olympics.
Allison thinks we could be on the way to a ‘backdoor blasphemy’ law in light of Scotland's hate crime bill.
Whilst Liam agrees and is disappointed with the Scottish media’s coverage of the law maker’s decision.
Returning to the rocket for his second voyage this week is Tory peer, Dr Tony Sewell, who discusses his reaction to the most recent race report from Kemi Badenoch, as well as his latest book, Black Success: The Surprising Truth.
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Sarah Knapton ‘Number of patients waiting four weeks to see GP soars all over England’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/02/patients-waiting-four-weeks-for-gp-appointment-soars-nhs/ |
Read Allison ‘The new Team GB flag trashes everything that’s iconic about the Union Jack’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/03/the-team-gb-flag-rebrand-olympics/ |
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| 0:00.0 | 5. |
| 0:03.0 | Spending all this time and effort, reengineering the Union Jack. |
| 0:07.0 | But there's nothing important going on. |
| 0:09.0 | It's not like the NHS needs any attention. |
| 0:11.0 | Four. |
| 0:12.0 | They could actually report a conversation to the police that was |
| 0:16.7 | had in my own home and that is chilling. |
| 0:19.7 | Three. People would ask you what it was like in the 70 and I said I had a fantastic time we also have faced |
| 0:25.6 | a lot of racism. |
| 0:27.6 | The lawmakers who have passed these laws, how many people do they think agree with them? |
| 0:33.0 | One. |
| 0:34.0 | We have let it off. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Alice in Pearson. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello and me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:47.0 | Scotland's new Hate Crime and Public Order Act criminalizes any speech which could be construed as stirring up hatred. |
| 0:54.7 | It introduces offenses for threatening or abusive behavior, which previously only applied |
| 0:59.4 | to race, but is now extended to protected characteristics including age, disability, sexual orientation and identity. |
| 1:08.0 | More than 400 third party reporting centres for hate crime have been set up across Scotland Allison |
| 1:14.6 | where snitches can dobin fellow citizens for alleged offenses against liberal group |
| 1:19.4 | think what the hell is happening? |
| 1:22.1 | JK Rolling responded to this new SMP law by tweeting a series of quote offensive tweets |
| 1:28.0 | are not very offensive challenging police in front of her 14 million followers to arrest her when she returns to Scotland, the country |
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