You have the freedom to be silenced
Planet Normal
Theodora Louloudis
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In wake of co-pilot Pearson’s shock visit from the police on Remembrance Sunday, the rocket reflects on the principle of free speech in our country. Allison explains what happens when the journalist becomes the story…
Elsewhere Liam gives his take on why the Harris campaign failed to reach many voters in the US election after his trip across the pond last week.
Also Joining your co-pilots on the rocket this week to discuss her arrest following a tweet about the Southport killings, is Bernadette Spofforth.
And your co-pilots weigh in on the latest news from the COP29 conference.
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/
Read Allison: ‘My visit from police on Remembrance Sunday is living proof of our two-tier justice system’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/12/my-visit-from-police-is-proof-of-two-tier-justice-system/ |
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| 0:00.0 | On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me, rip up the charades, forget about the |
| 0:06.9 | telly, let's play scratch cards, coins are to stretching, everybody laughing, better not be cheating, |
| 0:15.4 | and the chance to win a pound or three. Add some play to Christmas with scratch cards from the National Lottery. |
| 0:22.7 | Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:24.7 | Players and gifters must be 18 or over. |
| 0:26.2 | And the chance to win a pound or three. |
| 0:34.3 | This was the most extraordinary overreach and state intrusion into my private life. |
| 0:43.1 | And I don't think I did anything wrong. |
| 0:45.5 | And I think their response was outrageous. |
| 0:49.2 | I think it fell very neatly into, oh look, and we can make an example of people. |
| 0:57.4 | Young men voted for Trump in big numbers. |
| 1:01.4 | He won the popular vote and he won the White House. |
| 1:04.8 | And very, very few Republican presidents have done that in recent history. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm sufficiently old-fashioned to think the journalist should never become the story, but |
| 1:14.2 | needs must. |
| 1:19.2 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:25.6 | Hello. |
| 1:26.3 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:28.1 | Great to have you back co-pilot. |
| 1:30.0 | And what a week to return. |
| 1:31.8 | Because as we speak, the top story on the telegraph in print and online is you, Alison Pearson. |
| 1:37.7 | Not a piece of writing by Alison Pearson, nor a news story penned by Alison Pearson, but the case of Alison Pearson. Following a doorstep |
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