Silly Season Kicks Off
Planet Normal
Theodora Louloudis
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The rocket blasts off for a final voyage before its summer break but there’s no shortage of madness to navigate before then.
What did your co-pilots make of Keir Starmer’s first outing at Prime Minister’s Questions? Not to mention the political developments from across the pond..
Allison isn’t impressed with the front runners in the Conservative party leadership contest. Nor the Labour party’s two child benefit cap which Liam believes the implications of which could potentially hamper GDPR growth.
Strapping into the cockpit again as the rocket streams towards the Olympic is former professional swimmer and Olympian Sharron Davies who drops by to discuss her book in the build up to the celebration of sporting excellence.
And Allison shares some worrying observations from her recent trip to A and E.
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Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Allison: ‘My Soviet A&E ordeal shows there’s no compassion left in the dead-eyed NHS’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/07/23/no-compassion-left-in-the-nhs/ |
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. It was being in a bread queue for no bread than it was being in a bread |
| 0:36.9 | queue for no bread than it was being in a health care environment. |
| 0:42.1 | Four. The IOC still run the Olympics for the IOC and not for the athletes and that's something I would very much like to see change. |
| 0:49.0 | If labour come in and impose lots and lots of regulations, which their backbenchers want and trade unions want, |
| 0:57.0 | they're going to seriously hurt growth. They're not going to foster growth. |
| 1:01.0 | I've been saved by Almighty God, Halligan. |
| 1:04.0 | One. |
| 1:06.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Allison Pearson. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello? |
| 1:16.2 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:17.8 | It's meant to be the silly season, Allison. |
| 1:20.7 | Newspaper pundits like us should be talking about the weather, campaigns to save abused |
| 1:24.8 | donkeys and cloud formations or even pieces of toast that looked like the face of Jesus. |
| 1:31.3 | But dear co-pilot and it's great to have you back, the news, real news, not holiday |
| 1:35.1 | morsels, is instead coming thick and fast. Prime Minister Kiastarma faced Rishisunak for his first PMQQs and already labor rebels are coming to blows with the government. |
| 1:46.1 | The Tory leadership race has begun with not so much a bang as a whimper. |
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