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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.

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Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
59 minutes
Episodes
270
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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'I would like to work with Reform' - Lucy Connolly joins Allison and Liam on stage at Reform Party Conference

'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 Connolly.


Watch Allison, Liam and Lucy on stage here:

00:21:36  |   Sat 06 Sep 2025
Taxing questions for Angela Rayner

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…


A special stowaway this week is former Home Secret…

01:02:45  |   Wed 03 Sep 2025
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 3

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 two of their most explosive voyages on the rocke…

00:45:58  |   Wed 27 Aug 2025
'Am I Starmer's political prisoner? Absolutely'  | Lucy Connolly speaks to Allison Pearson

'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!


Allison was literally at the beach when the exciting news c…

01:04:17  |   Fri 22 Aug 2025
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 2

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 most explosive voyages on the rocket of right think…

00:54:16  |   Wed 20 Aug 2025
Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 1

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 explosive voyages on the rocket of right thinking…

01:06:49  |   Wed 13 Aug 2025
Labour! Leave our kids alone

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 thinks Starmer’s new migrant swap deal with France is nonse…

01:03:30  |   Wed 06 Aug 2025
Feeble Starmer is stoking a febrile country

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!


Allison thinks The US President took the Prime Min…

01:12:29  |   Wed 30 Jul 2025
The UK is on a Hard Road tackling immigration concerns

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 is pleased Labour have caught up with the rest of the co…

01:05:21  |   Wed 23 Jul 2025
Red Ed’s kamikaze net zero policies and the most expensive email in history

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 secrecy surrounding the Ministry of Defence data leak, whi…

01:16:27  |   Wed 16 Jul 2025
Labour’s multicultural project has been a devastating experiment

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 thinks the PM’s speech on Monday was a ‘soft focus’ reflectio…

01:14:05  |   Wed 09 Jul 2025
Starmer's ‘ming vase’ strategy smashed by policy pirouettes

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 government has been a series of ‘car crashes’ culminating…

01:03:25  |   Wed 02 Jul 2025
Starmer's morally and politically bankrupt stance continues to humiliate us

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.


Allison thinks the PM’s weak response to the US strike…

01:11:32  |   Thu 26 Jun 2025
Starmer should resign in shame at his latest U-turn on grooming gang inquiry

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 shed light on the ‘worst scandal in British history’ as…

01:19:19  |   Wed 18 Jun 2025
Labour’s spending review has no credibility

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 Lyons. 


Allison thinks Rachel Reeves is going on a ‘sp…

00:58:12  |   Wed 11 Jun 2025
The economy is a laffer minute

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 payments, your co-pilots clear a way through the confusion…

01:06:18  |   Wed 04 Jun 2025
Is this the end of the woke as we know it?

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 is pleased to see Reform focusing on families again, by …

01:13:35  |   Wed 28 May 2025
Starmer sells off our sovereignty

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 chief negotiator for exiting the EU, to give his asse…

01:00:53  |   Wed 21 May 2025
Starmer’s reverse ferret to the Right

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 on migration.


Allison isn't convinced by the PM’s r…

01:05:35  |   Wed 14 May 2025
Are you ready for Reform?

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 elections and your co-pilots are here to dissect …

01:05:52  |   Wed 07 May 2025
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