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The Peter McCormack Show

#151 - Laila Cunningham - The Post-British City: How Globalisation Hollowed Out London

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Laila Cunningham discusses London's demographic change, mass immigration, housing failure and whether the capital is becoming a stress test for Britain.

We discuss debt, inflation, generational decline, state expansion, and why productivity gains from technology aren't improving living standards. We also explore AI, education reform, automation, housing regulation and whether the UK is prepared for technological acceleration.

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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:09:51 – Cultural Confidence 00:18:56 – Housing & Regulation 00:28:53 – Media & Distraction 00:37:34 – Sanctuary Policies 00:45:48 – Immigration Incentives 00:53:52 – Fracturing Right 01:03:35 – Globalisation Effects 01:14:23 – Debt & Sound Money 01:21:38 – What Happens Next?

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0:00.0

What globalization has done is actually deindustrialized so many countries, right?

0:04.4

It's hollowed everything out.

0:05.3

Ollied everything out. Economies, culture.

0:07.2

Yeah. And it's only benefited those at the top.

0:11.6

I hear from people who come and visit, they're like, it doesn't feel that British to me.

0:16.5

You know, when you walk down certain parts and it's Arabic writing, it doesn't feel like a British city unless you go to the tourist sites. I do feel that we have lost a sense of cultural identity in London, I do. But I went to the Parliamentarian Awards, a spectator parliamentarian awards. I'd never been before. And I realised just how much of a cabal it is. You know, you had Michael Gove up there as the emcee and he was making a joke

0:39.3

about, he was saying, you know, I hear that the suites in this room at the top, the top suite is like, you know, thousands of pounds and thinking of putting some illegal migrants in there. You even had Shabana Mahmood, you know, making fun of like, I don't know, rich people in the room coming on boats, she's got to stop the boat.

0:53.6

They were, they were, they were taking the piss of the issues that everyone at home is facing.

0:59.1

And it, you know, and it was a big joke to them.

1:02.1

They call me racist. They call me a coconut, whatever that means.

1:05.3

I think the fundamental question is who's right now in London, who sets the cultural norms in London?

1:11.6

You know, and I think in some parts people feel that it is no longer British cultural norms.

1:16.6

I do believe that if you celebrate all cultures equally, you lose a sense of unity.

1:23.6

You know, there's confusion.

1:24.6

We have no culture.

1:26.6

Well, what we should.

1:28.3

There has to be a civic British culture that governs London.

1:37.1

Morning.

1:38.1

Morning.

1:38.4

How are you?

1:39.0

Fine, Peter.

1:39.7

How are you?

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