Through the looking glass
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Where are all the grown ups? This is the burning question our co-pilots are asking today. Amongst the latest drama at Westminster not to mention the This Morning sofa, our co-pilots feel as if they’re now living through the looking glass.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s energy strategy is under (a carbon emitting) fire, which Allison describes as an act of ‘national suicide’ too reliant upon foreign strategies to be virtuous enough for the green lobby. Whilst Liam thinks the Labour leader needs to put more care into his strategy in order to appease vital voters in Scotland.
Hopping aboard the rocket today to share his moving story is Jon Chapple, who fell victim to the NHS becoming a ‘covid only health service’, leading to a late Stage four cancer diagnosis.
And one listener has some entertaining tips for dealing with pesky garden visitors…
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/ |
Donate to Jon Chapple’s appeal: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/05/30/crowdfunding-germany-bowel-cancer-nhs-failures/
Read Debbie Hayton: Kathleen Stock and the rejection of reality: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/kathleen-stock-and-the-debate-over-gender-reality/
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| 0:27.0 | Slashpuzzles, dash planet normal, today. |
| 0:38.0 | You've either got the Tories, taxing the hell out of the oil and gas people, |
| 0:44.0 | or you've got Labour, absolutely discouraging them from making any investment at all. |
| 0:49.0 | I mean, Richie Surnaki doesn't even know what a space hopper and a chopper are. |
| 0:54.0 | He was born in 1980, he wasn't even alive in the 70s. |
| 0:58.0 | You've seen this explosion in young people, thinking they're born in the wrong body. |
| 1:05.0 | For people like me who are incubating something in their bodies or for people with, you know, heart disease or whatever it was, |
| 1:13.0 | time didn't stop for those people, time carried on going. |
| 1:17.0 | We have lived off. |
| 1:22.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:26.0 | Hello. |
| 1:27.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:29.0 | As the nation obsesses about Phil and Holly, who? |
| 1:32.0 | Our politicians are starting to wheel out some actual policies. |
| 1:36.0 | With Labour taking on the role of government in waiting, |
| 1:38.0 | Keir Starmer has decided now is the time to become the just stop oil party, |
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