Science vs Spin
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What a week! Time to grab your space helmets and head to Planet Normal, and joining you in the rocket today is Oxford University epidemiologist, Professor Sunetra Gupta. Fresh from a meeting with the PM, she tells Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why the government was wrong to base the lockdown on worst-case scenario modelling, why this is only a "third division" pandemic and why she wonders if her views would win her less flak were she a white man...
Plus Allison tells Liam why she's rejoicing at the news that her son has the virus, and the pair debate whether Keir Starmer can really win back the Red Wall after a powerful speech at this week's Labour Conference.
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| 0:36.0 | Five. |
| 0:38.0 | What an opening line. |
| 0:40.0 | You know, my beloved son has COVID. |
| 0:42.0 | Good. So do all of his mates. Good. |
| 0:45.0 | Four. |
| 0:46.0 | You cannot say that the worst case scenario is the truth. |
| 0:50.0 | Three. |
| 0:52.0 | And when he did his announcement to the nation, I thought I can hardly bring myself to look at you. |
| 0:57.0 | Two. |
| 0:59.0 | It's really not up there with the great pandemics in history. |
| 1:03.0 | One. |
| 1:07.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:11.0 | Another blast off, another trip to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Alison, me Liam Halligan, and do we ever need a break from planet Earth? |
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