Why the woke need to wake up
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Sit tight, it's another bumpy journey to Planet Normal. This week, Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan call out the government for failing to excel (see what we did there?) with Test, Track and Trace, interrogate how to cancel the cancel-culture invading UK universities, and debate whether BoJo's mojo has returned. Plus, Allison argues her case to be both Velma and Daphne, thank you very much.
Buckling into the passenger seat this week is writer Helen Pluckrose. Helen is the co-author of a new book, Cynical Theories, which looks at how wokeness is ruining academia and seeping out into the wider world. She discusses how she fears this agenda will hurt those it claims to protect, and why it's more important than ever to acknowledge that Britain isn't systemically racist.
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| 0:37.0 | Five. |
| 0:38.0 | We need more and more people to be able to speak out. |
| 0:41.0 | But the first few people who do that are going to get their heads shut off. |
| 0:45.0 | You farther can't visit your mother in the care home, but Boris says it'll be okay because your kettle will be able to run off a wind farm off-anglecy. |
| 0:55.0 | They immediately tell me that racism isn't getting any better at all. |
| 0:58.0 | So when was it better with your parents' generation? |
| 1:01.0 | Chicken licking, getting upset about the acorn falling on his head and thinking the sky was going to fall in. |
| 1:07.0 | When it comes to dealing with us pandemic, let's not be chicken licking. |
| 1:11.0 | One. |
| 1:15.0 | We have let it off. |
| 1:18.0 | It's another blast off, so strap yourself in and brace brace. |
| 1:23.0 | We're heading for planet normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello. |
| 1:28.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:30.0 | This was the week when just as daily COVID cases seemed to be falling, with official warnings of a second-peak-looking silly, |
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