The Numpty Class
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Another seven days on Planet Normal means another ‘numpty of the week’ and this time our very own Prime Minister is a hot contender. Liam tells listeners why he thinks Boris Johnson is ‘winging it’, while Allison worries that the PM has been taking writing tips from his infant son following his recent chaotic speech at the CBI conference. But will Sir Keir Starmer's popularity surge as Boris Johnson's dwindles? Or would that be all too... normal?
Also on the podcast: award-winning science writer Matt Ridley boards the rocket to tell our co-pilots why he's spent months investigating the origins of Covid-19. He tells us why swift and widespread dismissal of the Wuhan lab leak theory was a ‘shocking episode in the history of science’, and proposes his solution to see health information shared more quickly, fully and globally.
Plus, the Great British Bake Off causes a stir as our co-pilots reveal who they would have crowned champion.
Allison will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 25th of November 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/11/25/planet-normal-dismissing-wuhan-lab-leak-conspiracy-theory-shocking |
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| 0:00.0 | The telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | Podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Five. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm afraid that the numpty class that we've identified many times on planet normal is going |
| 0:14.6 | to be extremely reluctant to give up COVID. |
| 0:18.4 | To link the migration issue with the security issue, it's not to spread hate or to be alarmist. |
| 0:27.3 | It's to not be naive in my view. |
| 0:30.2 | One of the reviewers accused us of pimping the lab leak theory, which is an extremely unpleasant |
| 0:35.0 | phrase to make about our book, I think. |
| 0:38.4 | I do like the way you say pepper pig, halogen. |
| 0:41.5 | I've been working on that. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:52.5 | Hello. |
| 0:53.5 | And me Liam Halogen. |
| 0:55.3 | Well it turns out, Copilot Pearson, that the principal role of the UK government isn't |
| 0:59.7 | the safety and security of our people, nor the securing of a decent standard of living |
| 1:04.1 | for all. |
| 1:05.1 | The key aim of our Prime Minister is not it seems the building of societal structures that |
| 1:09.4 | allow us one and all to strive for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. |
| 1:14.2 | Oh no, dear Planet Normal citizens. |
| 1:17.5 | The role of our Premier and the broader British cabinet down on Planet Earth, we now know |
| 1:23.0 | is to promote and defend the commercial and cultural merits of pepper pig. |
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