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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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The case of Essex police vs Allison Pearson and the co-pilots victory
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This week’s journey in the rocket of right thinking opens with an ex...
Andy and the Backstabbers make their debut to the Country
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This week’s journey in the rocket of right thinking opens with co-pi...
Starmer out, Burnham in and we pay tribute to trailblazer Ann Widdecombe
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This week’s journey in the rocket of right thinking opens with a tri...
Farage furor and the media blindspot to the OBR warnings
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A never ending tsunami of news sees Reform UK leader Nigel Farage st...
Labour’s new migration policies will create a 'Burnham bump’
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Co-pilot Pearson returns from her break in Sicily to find political...
Burnham is the wrong answer to the UK’s economic problem
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A news heatwave has caused chaos across the land, Co-pilot Halligan...
Social Media Ban: Starmer finally gets something right
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The rocket of right thinking speeds around planet normal gathering the news...
Civil unrest will only get worse if people’s concerns remain ignored
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On your rocket of right thinking this week co-pilots Pearson and Halligan di...
10 years on from the Referendum, have we even had Brexit yet?
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This week on Planet Normal, your co-pilots of sanity, Liam Halligan and Alli...
Blair is talking sense on this Lefty Labour Party, and Starmer should listen to save them
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Labour drags us further to the '70s and Burnham stokes the psychodrama
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Is Starmer’s Labour drama as fleeting as Streeting’s bid for PM?
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Inflation threats to consumer prices and Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough!
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On the rocket of sweet reason this week we are avoiding talking about the Ma...
Starmer survives a vote this week, but what will the May elections reveal for Labour
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The Mandelson mess, stagflation returns, and the battle for Wales
This week on the rocket, co-pilots Halligan and Pearson dive into the political firestorm engulfing Westminster as Sir Keir Starmer faces intense scru...
Osborne and Cameron cut UK defence spending - and now Starmer is making it worse
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This week on the rocket, co-pilots Halligan and Pearson eye a horizon of sto...
Trump strikes ceasefire with Iran as Starmer grandstands in the Gulf
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This week on Planet Normal, your co-pilots navigate their way from the high-...
The Liberal consensus gave us mass migration and broken boarders
In this week’s dispatch from the sanctuary of sweet reason, co-pilots Pearson and Halligan examine a growing sense of national insecurity as Britain f...
Anti-semitism is clearly out of control in the UK
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UK Meningitis outbreak and Starmer’s abortion policy shame
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The Iran war lays bare the betrayal of Britain’s energy security
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It’s markets this, oil prices that, and what will happen next, so your co-pi...
Iran, Trump and running scared Starmer
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As conflict with Iran hots up across the Middle East, your co-pilot blast in...
Planet Normal: Live, with Lionel Shriver and Suella Braverman
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Your co-pilots have braved the atmosphere of planet Earth as the rocket to...
Reform launch their top team, as Starmer U-turns - again!
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Tick tock, Sir Keir’s against the clock
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The Mandelson quagmire and murky dealing of Chagos
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Starmer’s Shameful Soldier Witch Hunt
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It's been a week of defections, rejections and tantrums in...
Robert Jenrick's Reform defection and the Greenland rift
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The rocket of right thinking is back with a blast and a ver...
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 3
The winter break continues on Planet Normal! In this, the third and final part of the three part best of the rocket series, our co-pilots take a look...
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 2
In our second episode of the Best of the Rocket 2025, co-pilots Pearson and Halligan dive deep into the past year’s archives and bring you some of the...
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 1
In this, the first of the Best of the Rocket 2025, co-pilots Pearson and Halligan dig into the data files for some of their most explosive voyages on...
Rocket around the Christmas Tree!
It’s a Merry Christmas from the Rocket of right thinking at Planet Normal to everyone stuck on Planet Earth
Your intrepid co-pilots reflect on a...
Festive flu and the West’s cowardly silence after the Bondi massacre
Your Co-pilots reflect on a sombre week as the festive season is overshadowed by the beach massacre in Sydney earlier this week.
Co-pilot Pears...
Reform and Farage smears only make the Party stronger
Co-Pilots Pearson and Halligan tackle a week of political and economic madness. Starmer is dismissed as a "caretaker Prime Minister" with a weak manda...
Liar, liar, Reeves’ pants are on fire
With reaction to the autumn Budget still on the lips of news outlets everywhere, your co-pilots are here to make sense of the chaos.
Allison doe...
Reeves Budget snowstorm of discontent
The rocket of right thinking is back for a crucial Budget Special as Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveils her second major fiscal statement. Her new £30 b...
Reeves reverse ferret and Mahmood's immigration gamble
This week the Rocket welcomes former Prime Minister Liz Truss to discuss next week’s Budget as well as the co-pilots diving into the latest political...
March of the BBC’s ‘tinfoil hat’ brigade
After a Telegraph bombshell, both the BBC Director-General and Head of BBC News are OUT as the corporation is exposed for its "FAR LEFT ideological ca...
Home Office fails to secure its own ‘fit note’
Following the speech from Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledging tax rises are coming round the mountain, your co-pilots are here to wade through the...
Labour’s asylum seeker 'Carry On'
Our co-pilots, energised from their trip down to earth for the live show at the Battle of Ideas festival last week, are back on the Rocket to try and...