What’s a trillion pounds among friends?
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Lady Carnarvon, owner of Highclere Castle, swaps "the real-life Downton Abbey" for Planet Normal. She tells our co-pilots why she thinks reopening England's heritage sites in May is too late and just how long it'll take for her company to pay back lockdown loans, plus she imagines how the Dowager Countess would handle the restrictions.
Also on the podcast: Liam puts on his economist hat to dissect this week's Budget and Allison is delighted by President Macron's u-turn on giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to over-65s.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | Bodcasts |
| 0:33.2 | It's not true that the government is out of the kindness of its heart, giving people |
| 0:38.6 | money. There's a lot of covering up the damage. |
| 0:42.2 | I think lockdown has been prolonged precisely because there hasn't been a real world economic |
| 0:47.8 | constraint there. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm sure the Dowager Castle wants to roll up her sleeves and say we want to be part of |
| 0:56.2 | the bill back better. |
| 0:59.9 | It doesn't work to keep printing money effectively or creating money to buy up effectively your |
| 1:06.7 | own debt. |
| 1:16.8 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:21.2 | Hello. |
| 1:22.2 | And me Liam Halligan. The data is moving in the right direction, unfast. The number of |
| 1:27.8 | UK COVID cases is down 29% over the last week. Hospitalisations are 22% lower and daily |
| 1:35.6 | deaths from with or related to COVID have dropped 36% over the last seven days. |
| 1:42.4 | Britain's vaccinated almost a third of our population at least once, well over four |
| 1:47.0 | times more than our EU neighbours. The roadmap out of lockdown will be driven by data |
| 1:52.7 | not dates said Boris Johnson. Well the data Alison on cases deaths vaccination take up is |
| 1:59.0 | now massively outperforming. The pressure to unlock sooner is mounting. Not least given |
| 2:04.4 | the economic carnage we just heard about in Rishi's soon act budget. |
| 2:09.1 | Ultra caution starting to look reckless and expensive, given the huge economic costs |
| 2:14.4 | of lockdown in terms of loss growth and spiraling debts. |
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