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Joy’s needless death should be a cautionary tale for GPs still hiding from patients Listen to our Planet Normal podcast below to hear the heartbreaking story of Joy Stokes, whose husband claims she was failed by the NHS 11 May 2021 • 7:00pm Joy Stokes spent months being fobbed off when she desperately tried to see a doctor. She sadly died at the age of 69 Every so often, I write a column that really hits a nerve. Last week, my inbox practically burst its banks, so flooded was it with readers’ tears. Several thousand ouches of recognition and bellows of frustration came from those who re...

Rod Liddle doesn’t think he would be hired by the BBC today. Having edited BBC Radio 4’s flagship show between 1998 and 2002, he tells this week’s Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, that he stood out amongst his colleagues: “I would benefit from this otherness, and it was otherness, there’s no doubt about it.” But the writer and commentator strikes a positive tone in his conversation with columnist and co-host, Liam Halligan: “It was a brilliant team of journalists, and I did try to slightly change the timbre of it, the tone of it, by br...

Sunday Telegraph columnist Janet Daley says that Joe Biden's first 100 days in office as President have been marked by an identity crisis.  Speaking to Allison Pearson on this week's Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to on the player above, the American-born journalist said: "[Biden] doesn't seem to know whether he is the reincarnation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or a Hillary Clinton type focused on identity politics.  "He's not a far left politician of the kind that does exist now in the Democratic Party. He seems to be trying to create the kind of unity that Franklin Roosevelt ...

David Owen: Too many very able women lack confidence - and Shirley Williams was one of them The former Foreign Secretary tells The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast he regrets not doing more to combat the Lib Dem peer's self-doubt 22 April 2021 • 6:00am David Owen is the latest guest on The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast with columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan David Owen, famous as one of the Gang of Four who left Labour to form the SDP in 1981, has said that confidence was the only thing stopping the late Shirley Williams from leading their new party.  Speaking to Telegraph c...

The UK and Ireland should broker a bilateral deal to replace the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol, a former senior Irish diplomat has claimed, as he accused Dublin of being too close to the EU. Ray Bassett, who previously served as Ireland's ambassador to Canada, Jamaica and the Bahamas said he believed the new post-Brexit trading arrangements were fuelling “such a disillusionment” among unionists and should be overhauled.  Mr Bassett, who also served as joint secretary to the British-Irish intergovernmental conference, told The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast, which you can lis...