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Planet Normal

Woke Wars

Planet Normal

Louisa Wells

News, News Commentary, Current Affairs, Telegraph, Society & Culture, Planet Normal, News And Current Affairs

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Inflation has hit a 40 year high this week and so has our co-pilot's frustration with the NHS.

The state of the health service is at the forefront of co-pilot Pearson's mind, after a new report revealed the astonishing scale of NHS bureaucracy.

Allison is furious at the "parasitical layers of management" in the health service, and argues funding should be focused on providing frontline services and reducing waiting lists.

Co-pilot Halligan agrees we're not getting our money's worth when it comes to the healthcare system, but he's optimistic that there could be change in the air as more public figures raise concerns about NHS inefficiency.

Liam hopes the media and public will start to demand better policies from the Government and opposition parties on healthcare and the cost of living, but predicts the latter will dominate politics for the foreseeable future. 

Also climbing aboard the rocket of right thinking this week is author Dr Joanna Williams, to discuss how groupthink threatens democracy and why society needs to fight against the 'woke mindset'.

And finally, Allison shares the unlikely way that the rising cost of living crisis has affected her beloved pooch.

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0:00.0

The Telugu...

0:02.0

...podcasts.

0:10.0

If you transgress, if you speak out and say something that's different to this kind of accepted orthodoxy on gender, on race, then you just don't fit in.

0:21.0

We're not getting our money's worth in the NHS and if the NHS was organised better, the clinical outcomes will be far superior than where they currently are.

0:33.0

We are entering a period I think where people are going to die because of that inefficiency.

0:41.0

That is the ultimate first world problem I've got. My cock-a-poo shampoo and set and the cauljet for my tray-bake, crikey.

0:49.0

These are costs of people across the country will be being affected by.

0:58.0

Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ovpodcast with Alison Pearson.

1:02.0

Hello.

1:03.0

And me Liam Halligan.

1:05.0

Well, it's back to the 1970s co-pilot as the cost of living squeeze hits Britain.

1:10.0

Inflation is measured by the consumer price index was 9% higher in April than the same month in 2021.

1:17.0

Up from 7% in March.

1:19.0

And on the old measure the retail price index, which the Bank of England used to target, inflation hit 11.1% last month.

1:27.0

Last time prices were rising this far as co-pilot, shaking Stevens was in the charts.

1:32.0

And Bucks' fears were ripping their skirts off at Eurovision, telling us it's time to make our minds up.

1:37.0

As the cost of living sparsals not least for less well-off families, the economic impact of fuel and food prices, not just of the war in Ukraine,

1:45.0

but of Western sanctions and Moscow's countermeasures, is emerging as a major theme in British politics.

1:51.0

Another unmentionable, now demanding to be discussed, is the future of the NHS Alison, something firmly on the Planet Normal Agenda.

1:59.0

Jeremy Hunt has a book out outlining how he would fix the NHS.

2:03.0

Now he tells us having spent six years as health exit tree.

2:06.0

And you've written a powerful Telugu-ov column this week, link in the show notes to this episode,

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