The boat that didn't rock
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s Tory Conference week and Liam Halligan is camped out in Manchester, surviving on stale sandwiches and a hotel minibar, to give Allison Pearson the inside track on the party's movers and shakers. The PM’s speech may have brought the laughs but both our hosts were left wanting more: no policy announcements, barely a mention of the pandemic, and ‘gaping holes’ in his arguments. Nul points from our co-pilots.
Joining them aboard the rocket this week is fellow Telegraph columnist, Philip Johnston, who has been to not one, not two but forty Conservative conferences. He tells Allison why he thinks politicians aren’t as talented as they once were, and ranks his favourite ever three MPs.
Also on the show: Allison brings a revealing update from George, our NHS insider, and Liam answers the all-important question: what is stagflation?
Allison will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 7th October 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/10/06/planet-normal-boris-johnson-complete-denial-dire-place-country/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu Telugu podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | There's a kind of sense that we're in power, we're ahead in the polls, so don't rock the boats. |
| 0:16.0 | Four. |
| 0:17.0 | And what is the meaning of the word stagflation? |
| 0:20.0 | Sounds like a furniture range to me. |
| 0:23.0 | When people say we're heading for a winter of discontent, |
| 0:26.0 | they don't remember the winter of discontent. |
| 0:29.0 | It was far, far worse than what we're facing. |
| 0:32.0 | Actually, I do think it's fair that I raised the blood pressure of telegraph readers and planet normal listeners. |
| 0:37.0 | I like to think I act as a kind of, you know, a carmative. |
| 0:40.0 | A soothing balm. |
| 0:42.0 | One. |
| 0:45.0 | We have a dark. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:54.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, co-pilot Pearson is back from her holiday's dear listeners and how. |
| 1:00.0 | The Planet Normal Queen hasn't just topped up her tan. |
| 1:03.0 | She's topped up the blood pressure of countless telegraph readers, |
| 1:07.0 | unleashing a column in today's paper and online bemoaning. |
| 1:11.0 | Where is the real Boris Johnson? |
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