The great jabs-for-kids debate
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Can a pre-teen consent to a coronavirus vaccine? That's the big question Telegraph columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson are grabbling with this week, after an anonymous Planet Normal listener reveals that the NHS is drawing up plans to vaccinate 12-year-olds.
And as co-pilot Halligan returns from his Aegean Odyssey (AKA his annual holiday to Greece), he comes back not just with a podcast, but also with an interview with James Glancy, Army veteran turned documentary maker. James boards a first-class seat on the rocket of right thinking this week to reflect on his time serving as a Royal Marine during three tours of Afghanistan and why he thinks the ‘special relationship’ between Great Britain and the United States should be confined to the ‘dustbin of history’.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 1st July from 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/25/nhs-draws-plans-vaccinate-12-year-olds/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | They will be able to give their consent for a COVID jab |
| 0:15.0 | without even telling their parents. |
| 0:19.0 | Four. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm wondering aloud if the science now has been thrown out the window |
| 0:24.0 | and this is pure politics. |
| 0:26.0 | And then the power is deployed down to Helmet, |
| 0:29.0 | which is essentially like sending meal wall football hooligans |
| 0:32.0 | to Chelsea to improve relations. |
| 0:35.0 | I do think that in the end, in the final analysis, |
| 0:39.0 | this is still just about a vote winner for Joe Biden. |
| 0:53.0 | And welcome to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello. |
| 0:58.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:00.0 | Despite the mind-numbing test to release admin and airport arrival cues, |
| 1:04.0 | my two weeks on a Greek island provided a welcome break from Blighty. |
| 1:08.0 | But it's good to be back, and I'm grateful to our fellow telegraph columnist Tim Stanley |
| 1:13.0 | for standing in so superbly well as Alison's Planet Normal co-pilot. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, Alison, I turn my back for a couple of weeks |
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