Planet Normal Live Special at the Battle of Ideas
Planet Normal
Theodora Louloudis
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This episode was recorded live at the Battle of Ideas Festival in London on 20th October 2024
In this very special episode of Planet Normal, the rocket beams in live from the Battle of Ideas Festival featuring not one, but two very special stowaways..
Sociologist and social commentator, Professor Frank Furedi shares his thoughts on how we can tackle what he calls the ‘madness’ of political correctness.
Writer and comedian, Andrew Doyle also explains why we need to prioritise the value of free speech in our society.
And your co-pilots weigh in on the government’s recently unveiled plans for NHS and prison reform, and it’s safe to say they’re not sold.
There’s also a healthy dose of Velma stats and a Scooby accompaniment!
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| 0:39.8 | Five. I think we are now left with this very uneasy sense that a kind of progressive justice quote unquote is being dealt out to the people that they want to be vindictive |
| 0:46.0 | against and I think it's really worrying and disgusting. |
| 0:50.1 | In the 1980s, people laughing at political correctness they always ask me Frank what is this idiocy going to end |
| 0:56.7 | 10 years later they were asking the same question now we're in this disdified world of good and evil and effectively a slight |
| 1:04.6 | point of political disagreement is effectively enough to see you ostracized. |
| 1:08.0 | The left of British politics can now no longer ignore the fact that most people think the NHS isn't a religion. |
| 1:16.5 | One. |
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| 1:27.0 | Hello? |
| 1:28.0 | And me, Liam Halligan! Well, here we are at the Battle of Ideas, Allison, in the heart of Westminster, a two-day political festival now in its 19th year held at Church House just next to the Houses of Parliament. |
| 1:46.1 | Dozens and dozens of sessions over 400 speakers, a range of topics from domestic |
| 1:50.4 | politics to economics, international relations housing the NHS music |
| 1:54.0 | culture but the overwhelming overall theme of the battle of ideas and this would be the |
| 1:58.6 | 20th year but for lockdown just saying is that it's politically heterodox. There are people from all |
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