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Planet Normal — 310 episodes

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Civil unrest will only get worse if people’s concerns remain ignored

2

10 years on from the Referendum, have we even had Brexit yet?

3

Blair is talking sense on this Lefty Labour Party, and Starmer should listen to save them

4

Labour drags us further to the '70s and Burnham stokes the psychodrama

5

Is Starmer’s Labour drama as fleeting as Streeting’s bid for PM?

6

Inflation threats to consumer prices and Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough!

7

Starmer survives a vote this week, but what will the May elections reveal for Labour

8

The Mandelson mess, stagflation returns, and the battle for Wales

9

Osborne and Cameron cut UK defence spending - and now Starmer is making it worse

10

Trump strikes ceasefire with Iran as Starmer grandstands in the Gulf

11

The Liberal consensus gave us mass migration and broken boarders

12

Anti-semitism is clearly out of control in the UK

13

UK Meningitis outbreak and Starmer’s abortion policy shame

14

The Iran war lays bare the betrayal of Britain’s energy security

15

Iran, Trump and running scared Starmer

16

Planet Normal: Live, with Lionel Shriver and Suella Braverman

17

Reform launch their top team, as Starmer U-turns - again!

18

Tick tock, Sir Keir’s against the clock

19

The Mandelson quagmire and murky dealing of Chagos

20

Starmer’s Shameful Soldier Witch Hunt

21

Robert Jenrick's Reform defection and the Greenland rift

22

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 3

23

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 2

24

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 1

25

Rocket around the Christmas Tree!

26

Festive flu and the West’s cowardly silence after the Bondi massacre

27

Reform and Farage smears only make the Party stronger

28

Liar, liar, Reeves’ pants are on fire

29

Reeves Budget snowstorm of discontent

30

Reeves reverse ferret and Mahmood's immigration gamble

31

March of the BBC’s ‘tinfoil hat’ brigade

32

Home Office fails to secure its own ‘fit note’

33

Labour’s asylum seeker 'Carry On'

34

Planet Normal: Live Special at the Battle of Ideas 2025

35

Trump’s peace plan and the China spy row unfurling in Westminster

36

October 7th freed Hamas hostage Eli Sharabi speaks to Allison

37

The courageous ‘Pink Ladies' and Starmer’s toxic speech

38

Trump and Reform are right on immigration

39

Starmer shows off for Trump as ‘no confidence’ in him spreads

40

Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Gamble: blackouts and sky-high bills

41

'I would like to work with Reform' - Lucy Connolly joins Allison and Liam on stage at Reform Party Conference

42

Taxing questions for Angela Rayner

43

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 3

44

'Am I Starmer's political prisoner? Absolutely'  | Lucy Connolly speaks to Allison Pearson

45

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 2

46

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 1

47

Labour! Leave our kids alone

48

Feeble Starmer is stoking a febrile country

49

The UK is on a Hard Road tackling immigration concerns

50

Red Ed’s kamikaze net zero policies and the most expensive email in history

51

Labour’s multicultural project has been a devastating experiment

52

Starmer's ‘ming vase’ strategy smashed by policy pirouettes

53

Starmer's morally and politically bankrupt stance continues to humiliate us

54

Starmer should resign in shame at his latest U-turn on grooming gang inquiry

55

Labour’s spending review has no credibility

56

The economy is a laffer minute

57

Is this the end of the woke as we know it?

58

Starmer sells off our sovereignty

59

Starmer’s reverse ferret to the Right

60

Are you ready for Reform?

61

Net zero nets ‘nul point’ after power outages in Europe

62

Weak Starmer’s week of silence on women ruling

63

Tears of joy as Supreme Court rules on ‘women’ definition

64

Talking tough on tariffs

65

Rachel’s bottomless bucket of woe

66

Spring Statement Special

67

The Burgeoning Benefits Bill

68

Ructions in Reform

69

The Lockdown Legacy of Covid

70

Allison Pearson defends free speech against police

71

Reeves’ nation inflation

72

The final nail in the agricultural coffin

73

The Rise and Rise of the Reform Polls

74

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen on Reform and the future of the Conservative Party

75

Labour’s Marxist attack on education

76

Is the UK's grooming gang shame just the tip of worldwide iceberg?

77

Liz Truss Threatens Starmer with Legal Action

78

Christmas Special 2024 P2

79

Christmas Special 2024 P1

80

No brainer with ‘Angela Rayner’

81

Cultural Sensitivities Can Cost Lives

82

Labour Cleared For Re-Launch

83

Fixing the foundations

84

A helluva week on the rocket

85

You have the freedom to be silenced

86

US Election 2024

87

Labour’s big budget

88

Planet Normal Live Special at the Battle of Ideas

89

Rachel and the blackhole

90

The two Tory horse race

91

Robert Jenrick on his Tory leadership bid

92

Conference season chaos

93

Tom Tugendhat on his bid for Tory leadership

94

Winter fuel woes

95

It’s a (Tory leadership) knockout!

96

Is he two tier Keir?

97

The rocket returns

98

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2024 P3

99

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2024 P2

100

Kemi Badenoch on her Conservative Party leadership bid

101

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2024 P1

102

Silly Season Kicks Off

103

The King’s (Labour) Speech

104

Labour and their Starmtroopers

105

To the Polls!

106

Heat Wave of Politics

107

The Anti-incumbency trend

108

Co-pilots barrage Nigel Farage

109

Debating the debate

110

The 200th voyage on the rocket

111

A cacophony of woe

112

How long before Kevin Spacey is allowed to be uncancelled?

113

A Tory hammering

114

Wormholes of Woke

115

A protest too far

116

The Battle of Brussels

117

The case of the Cass Report

118

Not a first class health service

119

Tory MPs for hire

120

Four Prime Ministers, 1 Parliament

121

More political tremors

122

A Spring Budget haunted by the OBR

123

The Army up in arms over housing

124

Don't Panic!

125

Stick to the plan

126

The rise of Reform and 'Pop Con'

127

The Business of Brexit

128

Talk of a Tory regicide

129

Exclusive Interview with Fujitsu insider

130

New Year, Old Scandals

131

Best voyages from the festive Rocket 2023: Part 2

132

Best voyages from the festive Rocket 2023: Part 1

133

Jingle Bell Rocket

134

When Tory Tribes Go To War

135

Ineptitude masking as progress

136

Busy getting on with ‘just delivering’

137

Autumn Statement Special

138

A controversial Cabinet reshuffle

139

The Power and Pain of the Protest

140

The Inquiry

141

365 days on Planet Rishi

142

Turmoil continues in Israel

143

A Glittering Labour Conference

144

Plans for a Post Rishi World

145

Pre party conference fever

146

Liz Truss on her ‘pro-growth’ economy and traditional Conservative policies

147

Should we be picking on pensioners?

148

Back to school, back to politics

149

And they're back...

150

Best bits from the rocket: Part 4

151

Best bits from the rocket: Part 3

152

Best bits from the rocket: Part 2

153

Best bits from the rocket: Part 1

154

A tale of two Allisons

155

A heat storm in a teacup

156

The BBC, the Bank of England and "bonus holes"

157

National Health Service or National disaster?

158

It's just not cricket

159

The economy, stupid

160

Mad night at the circus

161

"I told you so" doesn't quite say it

162

Through the looking glass

163

The great Tory immigration lie

164

A tale of two conferences

165

Mr and Mrs Despairing Tory

166

The Coronation, fears of inflation, and political evisceration?

167

New elites and selfish stunts

168

Is the NHS on its deathbed?

169

Political plate tectonics

170

Planet Normal’s Lockdown Heroes

171

How Sweden stood firm: Anders Tegnell looks back on lockdown

172

Spring Budget Special

173

Tough talking on small boats

174

Truth triumphs on lockdown and lab leak

175

War on cultural vandalism

176

So long Sturgeon

177

Truss’s turbulent return

178

Taking on the Brexit bashers

179

Death by 100 tiny scandals

180

School's out for winter!

181

New year news tsunami

182

Best bits 2022

183

Happy winter closure period

184

The 12 days of strike-mas

185

Immigration wars

186

Are the Tories falling apart?

187

Autumn statement stealth tactics

188

Not a lot of Cop (27)

189

A post-Halloween witch hunt

190

Can Sunak stop the perma-crisis?

191

Lord Frost and Lionel Shriver on Braverman, budgets and Brexit

192

Caught in the doom loop

193

Tory Party Psychodrama

194

Mini-budget, big problem

195

End of an Era

196

Trussonomics

197

Lights out for Boris

198

Anyone seen the Government?

199

Cost of lockdown crisis

200

An entirely captainless ship

201

End of the road for Rishi?

202

Gloves off in Tory leader race

203

Jumping off the Boris bus

204

A.B.B: Anyone But Boris

205

Tricky times for the Tories

206

Battle for the soul of the Conservative Party

207

Last chance saloon for Boris

208

Terrific Queen, shame about the country

209

A Gray day for Parliament

210

Woke Wars

211

100 voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast

212

Complacency coma

213

Leg-gate, Labour and leadership troubles

214

Marathon of contrition

215

Tsunami of woes

216

Economic rubber hits the road

217

National Health Disservice

218

Spring Statement Special

219

Adding fuel to the cost of living fire

220

All paths lead to Moscow

221

Putin pushes on in Ukraine

222

One and a half cheers for Boris Johnson

223

Russia's big gamble on Ukraine

224

Soaking up the political gravy

225

Pyramid of piffle

226

All eyes on Sue Gray

227

A prime minister in trouble

228

Lord Frost on Partygate, Brexit and why he quit the Cabinet

229

A pandemic of testing

230

A crackers Christmas

231

Penny Mordaunt on Omicron hysteria, rebel MPs and Brexit

232

Parties, Plan B and betrayal

233

The 'moronic' variant

234

The Numpty Class

235

A full-blown Winter of Discontent

236

Sleaze, statistics and a sing-song

237

The Great, the Good, the Greta

238

The Big Budget Breakdown

239

He was everyone's equal

240

That Covid report

241

The boat that didn't rock

242

Teeny gains for Labour

243

All the ingredients for a perfect storm

244

Straight sets, straight talking

245

Welcome to tax-and-spend Toryism

246

Nailed to the naughty step

247

The great jabs-for-kids debate

248

One hell of a week on Planet Earth

249

Grade A mess

250

More flip-flops than a summer holiday

251

The War of the Noses

252

The juggle struggle

253

England in, Hancock out

254

Top hats, PPE and crashing disappointment

255

A whole new level of lunacy

256

Pearson vs. Lockdown

257

Chinese whispers

258

The gloves are off

259

Fear, fear and more fear

260

Nonsense on stilts

261

Fifty voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast

262

A Midsummer Night's Nightmare

263

Get out of my pub!

264

Good haircuts, bad grammar

265

Passport to nowhere

266

Breadcrumbs of freedom

267

Oddly reassuring, reassuringly odd

268

All out vaccine war

269

Courageous stupidity

270

What’s a trillion pounds among friends?

271

Eyes on the road

272

Hawks and Doves

273

Just one more heave

274

Tomorrow will be a good day

275

Who'd be a student?

276

In defence of scepticism

277

Scotch eggs for all

278

A very short dry January

279

Oh, what a year!

280

A Planet Normal Christmas

281

Great British common sense

282

It’s all a bit fishy

283

A different type of long Covid

284

The Five Days of Christmas

285

A maze of madness

286

The National Covid Service

287

A news tsunami

288

Do you Care Minister?

289

The billion pound Covid drop

290

It'll all end in tiers

291

Why the woke need to wake up

292

A case of Covid-mania

293

Science vs Spin

294

You have to laugh

295

Blighty not frighty

296

The Great Awokening

297

Red tape and coral spacesuits

298

"We don't need to be world-leading, we just need to be competent"

299

The ultimate Marmite man

300

We can't we all just get along?

301

A war on history

302

The truth about the NHS

303

Don't be afraid to be a contrarian

304

The magic money forest

305

Now is the Summer of our Discontent

306

Banking on a return to normality

307

We Need to Talk About Unpopular Opinions

308

The Great British Brain Unwashing

309

From China to the Clapham omnibus

310

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