Top hats, PPE and crashing disappointment
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Freedom day has come and gone, and with little freedom restored, co-hosts Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan tell listeners why they feel a rebellion rising. Can opinion polls suggesting the country still supports lockdown be true? Not according to co-pilot Halligan, who tells us why he thinks pollsters’ leading questions are skewing the results. Meanwhile Allison impresses Liam with her newly-acquired scientific vocabulary, and ‘George’ shares some exciting news.
Also visiting Planet Normal: Developmental biologist Dr Emma Hilton reflects on the announcement that weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at this year’s Olympic Games. She shares research suggesting the loss of muscle mass in trans women undergoing hormone treatment is ‘surprisingly’ small, and argues that being exclusive in sport is necessary for fair competition. But where do Liam and Allison stand on the transgender athlete debate? All is revealed within.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's start with the excellent news this week, |
| 0:12.0 | which is that top hats are a form of PPE. |
| 0:16.0 | For you are wrong. |
| 0:19.0 | Your lockdown policies, but it comes to international travel, are wrong. |
| 0:25.0 | One could argue that Laurel Hubbard taking a place at the Olympics, |
| 0:29.0 | has displaced a female athlete, and that in itself might be a fairness deficit. |
| 0:37.0 | Could not the whole airline industry be designated a pilot scheme? |
| 0:41.0 | Boom, boom, one. |
| 0:46.0 | We have the job. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast without a some Pearson. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello. |
| 0:55.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:57.0 | So the UK's Office for National Statistics just quietly released data showing almost 9 in 10 UK adults |
| 1:05.0 | now have antibodies against COVID. |
| 1:08.0 | Among the most vulnerable, the over 65s, that share is 95%. |
| 1:13.0 | And these are the results of tests of four nights ago, |
| 1:16.0 | since when millions more have been vast. |
| 1:19.0 | The UK is clearly at or very close to herd immunity, |
| 1:24.0 | along established scientific phrase which for months, are scientists what bad from using. |
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