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Dr John Lee tells Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan's Planet Normal podcast why scientists 'tend to miss the big picture'

Children scared to go on playdates for fear someone will die as a result, headteacher claims Rod Grant, headmaster of Clifton Hall School in Edinburgh tells the Planet Normal podcast fear is highest amongst four and five-year-olds Children who have watched "doomsday adverts" about Covid-19 are afraid of going on playdates because they think someone will die as a result, a headteacher has warned. A headteacher has spoken out about the effects of the pandemic on children as he said there has been...

Sir Graham Brady told The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast the past ten months have seen an 'authoritarian attack' on human rights

14 Jan 2021 Influential backbench leader Sir Graham Brady has said that lockdown measures could be “removing hope” from Britons, criticising “pointless restrictions” that ban people from sitting on a park bench or taking more than one walk a day. Sir Graham, chairman of the 1922 Committee of all backbench Tory MPs, warned that the government and ministers need to recognise that “lockdown carries its own costs”. “Not just in terms of livelihoods destroyed and people who might lose...

Listen to commentator Paul Embery tell The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast when Labour became the 'party of middle-class graduates'

Over a turbulent year, The Telegraphs Planet Normal podcast has provided an invaluable space for straight-talking, down-to-earth discussion with columnists, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan and a host of esteemed guests. In this years final edition, which you can listen to easily on the audio player above, Allison and Liam revisit some of their favourite interviews, including Alan Johnson, Sir Richard Dearlove, Lord Mervyn King, Professor Sunetra Gupta and more! Plus, the pair are joined by...

Dont prioritise the elderly for Covid vaccine, says Bake Offs Prue Leith Veteran chef, restaurateur and cookery writer tells the Planet Normal podcast why she believes younger people should receive the jab first 24 December 2020 • 6:00am The Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith has said people of her age should not be prioritised for the Covid vaccine but should be left to "take our chance". The 80-year-old chef, restaurateur and cookery writer said priority should be given to younger peop...

At last, a victory for our care home sweethearts The case of Robert and Josephine Styler, so cruelly kept apart, tugged on my heartstrings just as it did with Planet Normal listeners Robert and Josephine Styler, pictured here on their golden wedding anniversary, have finally been reunited You may recall the story of Robert and Josephine Styler. Robert emailed Planet Normal expressing his distress at care home Covid measures: “Josephine and myself have recently celebrated our diamond anniversa...

A former Australian ambassador to the EU has accused Brussels of making “completely unreasonable demands of Britain”  and warns the UK to exercise “extreme caution” in any future trading relationship with China because the country was “a thug and a shocking bully” which had decided to make an example of Australia after the country called for a global inquiry into the origins of the Covid-19 virus.   Mark Higgie, a senior political adviser to Tony Abbott, the former Australian prim...

A seaman tells The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast those in the industry support Brexit, deal or no deal