The Business of Brexit
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week your co-pilots are busy celebrating the anniversary of Brexit and the subsequent birth of Planet Normal. But aside from a hit podcast, what does the country really have to show from the referendum?
Liam thinks that the people talking down the economy since the referendum often underestimate UK, and that our GDP growth is actually on par with other countries in the EU.
Allison meanwhile is seething at another scandal afoot with British universities, which she believes is causing an ‘apartheid’ between UK and International students, by favouring the former.
This week the rocket welcomes 'Amy' and 'James' onto the rocket to share their daughter's story. A classmate of their child joined the Church of England school as a girl, while being born a boy. 'Amy' and 'James' say the child’s sex was hidden from classmates, like their daughter, who were traumatised to learn the truth.
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Allison: ‘Universities should want brilliant British minds, not dumbed-down foreign cash cows’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/30/top-british-universities-international-students-oxbridge/
Read Allison: 'Four-year-old boy allowed to join school as a girl is no Grimm fairytale but a real-life nightmare': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/26/boy-four-join-school-a-girl-grimm-nightmare-mental-health/
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| 0:00.0 | Five. |
| 0:03.0 | There is still a real disdain across the British political and particularly media establishment for those of us who had the courage of our convictions. |
| 0:12.0 | I think it's apartheid. of us who had the courage of our convictions. |
| 0:12.6 | I think it's apartheid. |
| 0:15.1 | Discrimination against British youngsters |
| 0:18.5 | is now so routine. |
| 0:20.4 | It is an absolute scandal. Surely if they've termed it that way themselves, |
| 0:25.0 | they know it's a secret because why are they viewing it as being out? |
| 0:28.0 | Absolutely, it's not a secret. |
| 0:30.0 | If you've been keeping it secret. |
| 0:32.0 | The pace that we're going at now again I think undermines that basic |
| 0:37.5 | characteristic of the UK. |
| 0:39.8 | One. |
| 0:41.8 | We have the dark. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with |
| 0:49.4 | Allison Pearson. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello! |
| 0:51.4 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:53.0 | British University degrees, top colleges, world-class education and historic surroundings. |
| 0:58.0 | All major credit cards accepted, please send large check to the Vice Chancellor. |
| 1:03.0 | These were the opening lines of your column in Wednesdays, Telegraph Allison. |
| 1:06.5 | There's a link to the online version in the show notes to this episode. |
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