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Planet Normal
The podcast that speaks your language. News and views from beyond the bubble with Telegraph columnists, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan, every Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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October 7th freed Hamas hostage Eli Sherabi speaks to Allison
In a special episode of Planet Normal co-pilot Pearson brings you a long interview with Eli Sharabi, who after the 7th of October spent 491 days as a...
The courageous ‘Pink Ladies and Starmer’s toxic speech
As Labour Conference draws to a close and Prime Minister Keir Starmer launches an attack on Nigel Farage, your co-pilots are here to make sense of the...
Trump and Reform are right on immigration
With Trump giving a dressing down to the UN and Starmer clinging on amid yet more scandals, there is no shortness of madness for your co-pilots to get...
Starmer shows off for Trump as ‘no confidence’ in him spreads
With a Trump state visit, an axed Ambassador and Labour polling in third in the upcoming Welsh election there is no shortage of news to wade through,...
Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Gamble: blackouts and sky-high bills
After a brief trip to Planet Earth at the Reform UK party conference, the rocket is back and making sense of the madness, so you don’t have to!
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'I would like to work with Reform' - Lucy Connolly joins Allison and Liam on stage at Reform Party Conference
The co-pilots briefly dock the rocket of right-thinking at the Reform Party Conference this week, for an on-stage episode with special guest Lucy Conn...
Taxing questions for Angela Rayner
The rocket is back from the summer break and blasting through the nonsense to bring you some common sense! There’s a lot to catch up on so buckle in…<...
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 3
Summer is coming to an end on Planet Normal! So in our final installment of our "best of the rocket" series, our co-pilots take a look back at another...
'Am I Starmer's political prisoner? Absolutely' | Lucy Connolly speaks to Allison Pearson
Citizens of Planet Normal, you were expecting the co-pilots to be on holiday during August but we now have a surprise bonus episode for you!
All...
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 2
Summer continues on Planet Normal! In this, the second of the three part best of the rocket series, our co-pilots take a look back at some of their mo...
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 1
It's the summer break on Planet Normal so in the first of this year's best of the rocket series, our co-pilots take a look back at some of their most...
Labour! Leave our kids alone
Another black hole has appeared in the country’s coffers, but you can bank on your co-pilots to make sense of the pennies and cents.
Allison thi...
Feeble Starmer is stoking a febrile country
With Donald Trump giving Starmer a piece of his mind, there’s no shortage of madness this week, and your co-pilots are ready to make sense of it all!<...
The UK is on a Hard Road tackling immigration concerns
Co-Pilot Pearson is taking a break but fear not, Nick Timothy is strapping in to help Co-pilot Halligan make sense of this week’s madness.
Liam...
Red Ed’s kamikaze net zero policies and the most expensive email in history
Secrets, lies and spies are on the agenda for this week and your co-pilots are here to make sense of the madness.
Allison is horrified by the se...
Labour’s multicultural project has been a devastating experiment
Another week in Labour’s u-turn government and the rumblings of a wealth tax are on the horizon, just as your co-pilots predicted!
Allison think...
Starmer's ‘ming vase’ strategy smashed by policy pirouettes
As Labour performs another head spinning u turn, your co-pilots are here to cut through the madness, so you don’t have to.
Allison thinks this g...
Starmer's morally and politically bankrupt stance continues to humiliate us
With another packed news week at home and abroad, your co-pilots are here to steer you through the carnage with their usual dose of common sense.
Starmer should resign in shame at his latest U-turn on grooming gang inquiry
As Labour skids into yet another U-turn, your co-pilots are here to clear the chaff from the wheat.
Allison is hopeful the inquiry could finally...
Labour’s spending review has no credibility
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has outlined her spending review and your co-pilots are here to wade through the madness with Telegraph Columnist Gerard Lyon...
The economy is a laffer minute
The rocket welcomes stowaway Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mel Stride aboard.
As Rachel Reeves announces a clunky U-turn on winter fuel pa...
Is this the end of the woke as we know it?
As tensions simmer among the Labour benches ahead of their spending review, your co-pilots wade through the noise so you don’t have to.
Allison...
Starmer sells off our sovereignty
Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement of an EU ‘reset’ your co-pilots invited regular flier Lord David Frost to the rocket, former chie...
Starmer’s reverse ferret to the Right
Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ‘strangers in our own land’ speech this week, your co-pilots give their take on his apparent change of heart o...
Are you ready for Reform?
The votes were counted, and then re-counted in last week’s by-election, netting Reform their fifth MP. Similar shockwaves were felt through the local...
Net zero nets ‘nul point’ after power outages in Europe
Following nationwide power outages in Spain and Portugal on Monday this week, co-pilots Pearson and Halligan don their spacesuits to take a deeper div...
Weak Starmer’s week of silence on women ruling
This week your co-pilots bring you a podcast exclusive with the Leader of The Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, who gives her take on Prime Minister, Keir St...
Tears of joy as Supreme Court rules on ‘women’ definition
Co-pilot Pearson is back in her rightful place at the helm of the rocket, hurrah! She’s just in time to deliver her verdict on the Supreme Court’s una...
Talking tough on tariffs
This episode was recorded before president Trump announced a pause on some tariffs.
With co-pilot Pearson taking a well earned break, Tim Stanle...
Rachel’s bottomless bucket of woe
It’s a new month with the same old madness on Planet earth, with rises in capital gains tax, council tax, energy fees and transport costs, April Fool’...
Spring Statement Special
As Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveils her first ‘Spring Statement’ your co-pilots are joined on the rocket by not one but TWO very special incumbents. C...
The Burgeoning Benefits Bill
As Prime Minister Keir Starmer strays further Right in his policy decisions on defence spending and benefit cuts, your co-pilots strap into the rocket...
Ructions in Reform
As the internal ‘punch up’ in Reform UK rumbles on, your co-pilots give their take on the latest fumblings. But whose corner are they fighting for?
The Lockdown Legacy of Covid
It’s geopolitics stupid.The issue at the forefront of the rocket’s orbit today as there’s certainly no shortage of global madness to contend with.
Allison Pearson defends free speech against police
Co-pilot Pearson has a huge announcement this week as she launches legal action against Essex police after her traumatising experience last year. In t...
Reeves’ nation inflation
There’s more woe on the horizon this week with the delivery of less than positive inflation figures.. But no fear, your co-pilots are at the helm to g...
The final nail in the agricultural coffin
Rule by law or rule by lawyers, that's the question your co-pilots are posing from the rocket today as they ponder the week’s events on Planet Earth,...
The Rise and Rise of the Reform Polls
Is the country falling apart? It’s starting to feel like it this week on the rocket as your co-pilots lament the latest shortcomings from the Labour P...
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen on Reform and the future of the Conservative Party
Co-pilot Halligan is joined by the highly qualified temporary co-pilot Tim Stanley whilst co-pilot Pearson is away from the rocket.
Tim gives hi...
Labour’s Marxist attack on education
It’s the second coming of the Donald as President Trump is inaugurated to the Oval Office for his second term, but what do your co-pilots make of the...