Passport to nowhere
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dr Tony Sewell, chair of the commission behind the long-awaited government report into racial disparities, boards this week's rocket to Planet Normal. He tells Telegraph columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson why a desperate attempt to discredit his findings prove their veracity, and why the term 'BAME' needs to go.
Elsewhere, liberation from lockdown is edging into view, but will our co-pilots have their vaccine passports ready? Liam tells listeners why he thinks Boris Johnson's current lead in the polls could rest on the matter, while Allison speaks up for Telegraph readers concerned for their freedoms, and shares a particularly moving listener email.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 7th April from 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/07/dr-tony-sewell-people-desperate-silence-must-saying-something/ |
For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/normal |
Read Sarah Knapton's reporting on third wave modelling: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/06/government-models-warning-third-wave-based-flawed-figures-telegraph/ |
Read Philip Johnston 'The chilling truth is we may never be permitted to return to normality': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/06/chilling-truth-may-never-permitted-return-normality/ |
Read Telegraph exclusive: 'More than a fifth of Covid deaths at some hospitals after patients caught virus on wards' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/31/exclusive-fifth-covid-deaths-hospitals-infections-caught-ward/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allison-pearson/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | When people are this desperate to silence you or to discredit you, |
| 0:14.0 | you must be saying something that's true. |
| 0:17.0 | Four. |
| 0:18.0 | Well, I think the telegraphiness generally agreed that Mr Gokun's shove his Covid pass, |
| 0:22.0 | bought up his precautionary principle. |
| 0:25.0 | Three. |
| 0:26.0 | Economical with the actuality. |
| 0:28.0 | As Alan Clark told us. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, we're Alice in Wonderland, fold and down the rabbit hole. |
| 0:36.0 | What is going on? Nothing makes sense. |
| 0:40.0 | One. |
| 0:43.0 | We have let it off. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-off podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello. |
| 0:53.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:55.0 | The government spent months pronouncing on the dangers of Covid. |
| 0:59.0 | Now Ministers are trying to reassure us, getting us ready for the lifting of lockdown |
| 1:04.0 | by introducing Covid passports, which many Brits instinctively oppose. |
| 1:09.0 | More than 70 MPs, including over 40 Tories, have signed an open letter to Boris Johnson, |
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