The juggle struggle
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Meet the mothers taking on the system over the way children have been sidelined in lockdown decision-making. Working mums Molly, Liz and Christine added a string to their collective bow when they were forced to become home teachers over much of 2020 - and another one when they later set up pressure group, Us for Them. It campaigns for the needs of the young to be prioritised over the pandemic and beyond. This week they board an extra large Planet Normal rocket, telling Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why calling children ‘resilient’ is simply a means of justifying putting adults first, plus they lay out the very real effect lockdown measures have had on their own kids.
Elsewhere, has the Saj been had? Liam wonders whether the ‘doom-monger scientists’ will have their way in delaying the new Health Secretary’s freedom day deadline, Allison tells us why the NHS’ George Cross victory saw her jaw drop, and a powerful interview leaves one of our co-pilots cowering in the corner of the Planet Normal capsule.
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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 | As ever, with working mothers, it's a jungle isn't it? |
| 0:13.0 | The jungle's struggle is very real. |
| 0:15.0 | How dreadful that the British people should be allowed to use their own personal responsibility |
| 0:20.0 | to decide what risks they take. |
| 0:22.0 | Ministers talk a talk of putting children first. |
| 0:25.0 | The words are portrayed by the actions. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm going to miss Los Medeches when I said that. |
| 0:31.0 | One. |
| 0:35.0 | We have the job. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu off podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello. |
| 0:45.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:47.0 | So has the sadge been had? |
| 0:49.0 | New health secretary, Sadge Jabbid was doing so well, insisting that anti-COVID restrictions |
| 0:55.0 | must come to an end. |
| 0:57.0 | Such an improvement on dead hand handcock. |
| 1:00.0 | But at the doom among the scientists, the Whitehall blop, now consuming Sadge Jabbid 2. |
| 1:06.0 | On Monday, the nation was handed a joyful 19th of July COVID contract, the next day, the nasty fine print. |
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