The Power and Pain of the Protest
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
To protest or not to protest? The question on everyone's mind this week as the conflicts between Remembrance weekend commemorations and pro- Palestine marches reach a heated conclusion. Your co-pilots weigh in on the power and the pain of both arguments.
Liam and Allison are both opposed to the protest going ahead on Saturday with Liam questioning whether the law is being ‘circumvented’. Whilst Allison thinks we could be reaching a tipping point between sensitivity towards different groups and a full public uprising as the pre protest fever grows.
And what did they make of the first King’s Speech in 70 years? Was it the forethought of a Conservative government ready to begin a fifth term?
Strapping into the rocket this week are not one but three stowaways Molly and Ben Kingsley and Arabella Skinner from the children’s campaign group ‘Us for Them’. They deliver what they think are the shortcomings of the ongoing Covid Inquiry and why they think a separate enquiry should be launched in order to better consider the wider implications and damages to children.
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 'When poppy sellers cannot honour the dead, we must take a stand': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/11/07/poppy-sellers-armistice-day-protest-palestine-million-march/ |
Read Us for Them 'The Accountability Deficit': https://usforthem.co.uk/the-accountability-deficit/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, I'm Phil Spencer and I'm here with Telegraph Money, |
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| 0:29.5 | Search Telegraph money today. And I'm afraid it didn't come across to me as the speech of a government that |
| 0:56.4 | expects to be in power in a year's time. |
| 1:00.3 | What we're not seeing is anyone willing to put their hand up and say, |
| 1:03.8 | you know what in the heat of this public health emergency, |
| 1:07.6 | I think I may have made a few bad decisions. |
| 1:09.8 | The left in this country is very quick to pounce on anything that might be racist |
| 1:16.7 | except when it's in their own ranks. |
| 1:18.7 | I'd sum it up like this, Allison, I've covering Queen's speeches and now King's speeches for 30 years and I can't remember one that's made less of a splash. We have the start. |
| 1:36.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Alice and Pearson. |
| 1:40.0 | Hello. |
| 1:41.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:42.0 | It's Remembrance Sunday and armist is Saturday this weekend, Allison. |
| 1:46.0 | But far from the precious annual rituals of Poppy's gratitude |
| 1:50.0 | and a dignified two-minute silence for our war dead at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, |
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