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Planet Normal — 302 episodes

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

2

Trump strikes ceasefire with Iran as Starmer grandstands in the Gulf

3

The Liberal consensus gave us mass migration and broken boarders

4

Anti-semitism is clearly out of control in the UK

5

UK Meningitis outbreak and Starmer’s abortion policy shame

6

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

7

Iran, Trump and running scared Starmer

8

Planet Normal: Live, with Lionel Shriver and Suella Braverman

9

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

10

Tick tock, Sir Keir’s against the clock

11

The Mandelson quagmire and murky dealing of Chagos

12

Starmer’s Shameful Soldier Witch Hunt

13

Robert Jenrick's Reform defection and the Greenland rift

14

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 3

15

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 2

16

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 1

17

Rocket around the Christmas Tree!

18

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

19

Reform and Farage smears only make the Party stronger

20

Liar, liar, Reeves’ pants are on fire

21

Reeves Budget snowstorm of discontent

22

Reeves reverse ferret and Mahmood's immigration gamble

23

March of the BBC’s ‘tinfoil hat’ brigade

24

Home Office fails to secure its own ‘fit note’

25

Labour’s asylum seeker 'Carry On'

26

Planet Normal: Live Special at the Battle of Ideas 2025

27

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

28

October 7th freed Hamas hostage Eli Sharabi speaks to Allison

29

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

30

Trump and Reform are right on immigration

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

Taxing questions for Angela Rayner

35

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 3

36

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

37

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 2

38

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Part 1

39

Labour! Leave our kids alone

40

Feeble Starmer is stoking a febrile country

41

The UK is on a Hard Road tackling immigration concerns

42

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

43

Labour’s multicultural project has been a devastating experiment

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

Labour’s spending review has no credibility

48

The economy is a laffer minute

49

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

50

Starmer sells off our sovereignty

51

Starmer’s reverse ferret to the Right

52

Are you ready for Reform?

53

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

54

Weak Starmer’s week of silence on women ruling

55

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

56

Talking tough on tariffs

57

Rachel’s bottomless bucket of woe

58

Spring Statement Special

59

The Burgeoning Benefits Bill

60

Ructions in Reform

61

The Lockdown Legacy of Covid

62

Allison Pearson defends free speech against police

63

Reeves’ nation inflation

64

The final nail in the agricultural coffin

65

The Rise and Rise of the Reform Polls

66

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

67

Labour’s Marxist attack on education

68

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

69

Liz Truss Threatens Starmer with Legal Action

70

Christmas Special 2024 P2

71

Christmas Special 2024 P1

72

No brainer with ‘Angela Rayner’

73

Cultural Sensitivities Can Cost Lives

74

Labour Cleared For Re-Launch

75

Fixing the foundations

76

A helluva week on the rocket

77

You have the freedom to be silenced

78

US Election 2024

79

Labour’s big budget

80

Planet Normal Live Special at the Battle of Ideas

81

Rachel and the blackhole

82

The two Tory horse race

83

Robert Jenrick on his Tory leadership bid

84

Conference season chaos

85

Tom Tugendhat on his bid for Tory leadership

86

Winter fuel woes

87

It’s a (Tory leadership) knockout!

88

Is he two tier Keir?

89

The rocket returns

90

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2024 P3

91

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2024 P2

92

Kemi Badenoch on her Conservative Party leadership bid

93

Best Voyages from the Rocket 2024 P1

94

Silly Season Kicks Off

95

The King’s (Labour) Speech

96

Labour and their Starmtroopers

97

To the Polls!

98

Heat Wave of Politics

99

The Anti-incumbency trend

100

Co-pilots barrage Nigel Farage

101

Debating the debate

102

The 200th voyage on the rocket

103

A cacophony of woe

104

How long before Kevin Spacey is allowed to be uncancelled?

105

A Tory hammering

106

Wormholes of Woke

107

A protest too far

108

The Battle of Brussels

109

The case of the Cass Report

110

Not a first class health service

111

Tory MPs for hire

112

Four Prime Ministers, 1 Parliament

113

More political tremors

114

A Spring Budget haunted by the OBR

115

The Army up in arms over housing

116

Don't Panic!

117

Stick to the plan

118

The rise of Reform and 'Pop Con'

119

The Business of Brexit

120

Talk of a Tory regicide

121

Exclusive Interview with Fujitsu insider

122

New Year, Old Scandals

123

Best voyages from the festive Rocket 2023: Part 2

124

Best voyages from the festive Rocket 2023: Part 1

125

Jingle Bell Rocket

126

When Tory Tribes Go To War

127

Ineptitude masking as progress

128

Busy getting on with ‘just delivering’

129

Autumn Statement Special

130

A controversial Cabinet reshuffle

131

The Power and Pain of the Protest

132

The Inquiry

133

365 days on Planet Rishi

134

Turmoil continues in Israel

135

A Glittering Labour Conference

136

Plans for a Post Rishi World

137

Pre party conference fever

138

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

139

Should we be picking on pensioners?

140

Back to school, back to politics

141

And they're back...

142

Best bits from the rocket: Part 4

143

Best bits from the rocket: Part 3

144

Best bits from the rocket: Part 2

145

Best bits from the rocket: Part 1

146

A tale of two Allisons

147

A heat storm in a teacup

148

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

149

National Health Service or National disaster?

150

It's just not cricket

151

The economy, stupid

152

Mad night at the circus

153

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

154

Through the looking glass

155

The great Tory immigration lie

156

A tale of two conferences

157

Mr and Mrs Despairing Tory

158

The Coronation, fears of inflation, and political evisceration?

159

New elites and selfish stunts

160

Is the NHS on its deathbed?

161

Political plate tectonics

162

Planet Normal’s Lockdown Heroes

163

How Sweden stood firm: Anders Tegnell looks back on lockdown

164

Spring Budget Special

165

Tough talking on small boats

166

Truth triumphs on lockdown and lab leak

167

War on cultural vandalism

168

So long Sturgeon

169

Truss’s turbulent return

170

Taking on the Brexit bashers

171

Death by 100 tiny scandals

172

School's out for winter!

173

New year news tsunami

174

Best bits 2022

175

Happy winter closure period

176

The 12 days of strike-mas

177

Immigration wars

178

Are the Tories falling apart?

179

Autumn statement stealth tactics

180

Not a lot of Cop (27)

181

A post-Halloween witch hunt

182

Can Sunak stop the perma-crisis?

183

Lord Frost and Lionel Shriver on Braverman, budgets and Brexit

184

Caught in the doom loop

185

Tory Party Psychodrama

186

Mini-budget, big problem

187

End of an Era

188

Trussonomics

189

Lights out for Boris

190

Anyone seen the Government?

191

Cost of lockdown crisis

192

An entirely captainless ship

193

End of the road for Rishi?

194

Gloves off in Tory leader race

195

Jumping off the Boris bus

196

A.B.B: Anyone But Boris

197

Tricky times for the Tories

198

Battle for the soul of the Conservative Party

199

Last chance saloon for Boris

200

Terrific Queen, shame about the country

201

A Gray day for Parliament

202

Woke Wars

203

100 voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast

204

Complacency coma

205

Leg-gate, Labour and leadership troubles

206

Marathon of contrition

207

Tsunami of woes

208

Economic rubber hits the road

209

National Health Disservice

210

Spring Statement Special

211

Adding fuel to the cost of living fire

212

All paths lead to Moscow

213

Putin pushes on in Ukraine

214

One and a half cheers for Boris Johnson

215

Russia's big gamble on Ukraine

216

Soaking up the political gravy

217

Pyramid of piffle

218

All eyes on Sue Gray

219

A prime minister in trouble

220

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

221

A pandemic of testing

222

A crackers Christmas

223

Penny Mordaunt on Omicron hysteria, rebel MPs and Brexit

224

Parties, Plan B and betrayal

225

The 'moronic' variant

226

The Numpty Class

227

A full-blown Winter of Discontent

228

Sleaze, statistics and a sing-song

229

The Great, the Good, the Greta

230

The Big Budget Breakdown

231

He was everyone's equal

232

That Covid report

233

The boat that didn't rock

234

Teeny gains for Labour

235

All the ingredients for a perfect storm

236

Straight sets, straight talking

237

Welcome to tax-and-spend Toryism

238

Nailed to the naughty step

239

The great jabs-for-kids debate

240

One hell of a week on Planet Earth

241

Grade A mess

242

More flip-flops than a summer holiday

243

The War of the Noses

244

The juggle struggle

245

England in, Hancock out

246

Top hats, PPE and crashing disappointment

247

A whole new level of lunacy

248

Pearson vs. Lockdown

249

Chinese whispers

250

The gloves are off

251

Fear, fear and more fear

252

Nonsense on stilts

253

Fifty voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast

254

A Midsummer Night's Nightmare

255

Get out of my pub!

256

Good haircuts, bad grammar

257

Passport to nowhere

258

Breadcrumbs of freedom

259

Oddly reassuring, reassuringly odd

260

All out vaccine war

261

Courageous stupidity

262

What’s a trillion pounds among friends?

263

Eyes on the road

264

Hawks and Doves

265

Just one more heave

266

Tomorrow will be a good day

267

Who'd be a student?

268

In defence of scepticism

269

Scotch eggs for all

270

A very short dry January

271

Oh, what a year!

272

A Planet Normal Christmas

273

Great British common sense

274

It’s all a bit fishy

275

A different type of long Covid

276

The Five Days of Christmas

277

A maze of madness

278

The National Covid Service

279

A news tsunami

280

Do you Care Minister?

281

The billion pound Covid drop

282

It'll all end in tiers

283

Why the woke need to wake up

284

A case of Covid-mania

285

Science vs Spin

286

You have to laugh

287

Blighty not frighty

288

The Great Awokening

289

Red tape and coral spacesuits

290

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

291

The ultimate Marmite man

292

We can't we all just get along?

293

A war on history

294

The truth about the NHS

295

Don't be afraid to be a contrarian

296

The magic money forest

297

Now is the Summer of our Discontent

298

Banking on a return to normality

299

We Need to Talk About Unpopular Opinions

300

The Great British Brain Unwashing

301

From China to the Clapham omnibus

302

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