The magic money forest
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Trevor Phillips, broadcaster, writer and former chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, is Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan's latest castaway to Planet Normal. The former Labour candidate for London Mayor tells Liam why guilt obscures media coverage of racial issues, how he knows what it's like to be randomly stopped by the police, and why he believes parts of the Labour Party just don't care about winning elections.
Plus, Allison and Liam discuss the devastating knock-on effect of lockdown on cancer treatments, Rishi Sunak's mini-Budget or "big Economic enchilada", and enjoy listeners' stories of a time before health and safety, featuring a homemade army tank!
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| 0:36.0 | Five. |
| 0:38.0 | I don't really give a sod what they think. I want them to do their job properly. |
| 0:42.0 | Four. |
| 0:43.0 | Forty-ninety-nine, mate, of my own money. |
| 0:48.0 | Three. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, that whole light at the end of the tunnel is always a problem, isn't it? |
| 0:53.0 | You never know whether it's daylight or it's a train coming. |
| 0:57.0 | I spent a lot of my time as a young academic when I should have been going out and forming my personality, studying these things. |
| 1:04.0 | One. |
| 1:07.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:10.0 | It's Blastoff number seven, Lock and Load. Welcome again to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello. |
| 1:18.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:20.0 | So, Rishi Sunak's unveiled his big economic enchilada, the Chancellor's Splash the Cash, |
| 1:26.0 | as the British government throws caution to the win trying to reboot our post-COVID economy. |
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