The War of the Noses
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the words of Alice Cooper, “School’s out for Summer”. The holidays are fast approaching but there’s no rest for our co-pilots, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan, as Allison accuses the Left of weaponising the use of face masks, Liam predicts public finger-wagging for those choosing to ditch them, and our hosts nail their colours to the mast on the so-called “War of the Noses”.
Also on the podcast: LSE behavioural scientist Professor Paul Dolan cruises into the Planet Normal atmosphere to tell listeners why the government must honour its social contract of freedom in a post-vaccine world, and why the cost of achieving zero-Covid is just too high. Plus, a particularly moving email from a Brown Owl gives our co-pilots pause for thought.
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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 | The masks, what somebody called the War of the Noses. |
| 0:14.0 | Four. |
| 0:16.0 | The England team is an anti-racist statement. |
| 0:21.0 | Three. |
| 0:22.0 | They're the splash of the policy interventions when they hit the pond. |
| 0:26.0 | What we haven't accounted for is all of these ripple effects. |
| 0:29.0 | Two. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, it's just a mask put it on. |
| 0:32.0 | It changes the character and the feel of a society. |
| 0:37.0 | One. |
| 0:41.0 | We have left off. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu- off podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello. |
| 0:50.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:52.0 | So the 19th of July is set to be free to be day in England at least. |
| 0:56.0 | But Boris Johnson isn't encouraging street parties or celebrations to mark the end of anti-COVID restrictions. |
| 1:03.0 | Speaking from Down Next Street, the Prime Minister seemed downbeat and apologetic. |
| 1:08.0 | Rather than jubilant that the UK's world class vaccine programme is clearly working. |
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