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Planet Normal

Feeble Starmer is stoking a febrile country

Planet Normal

Louisa Wells

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Telegraph, Planet Normal, Current Affairs, News And Current Affairs

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

With Donald Trump giving Starmer a piece of his mind, there’s no shortage of madness this week, and your co-pilots are ready to make sense of it all!


Allison thinks The US President took the Prime Minister to task on his immigration and green power policies, completely humiliating him on the world stage.


Whilst Liam says the ‘febrile atmosphere’ in the country isn’t being managed very well by Starmer's immigration policies.


Stowing away this week is Epping resident Orla Minihine who tells the co-pilots why she is protesting against a local hotel being used to house migrants.



Read Allison ‘They tried to break Lucy Connolly, but the decent people of Britain will never desert her’:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/29/allison-pearson-lucy-connolly-southport-decent-britain/ |

Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |

Read Liam ‘I’ve changed my mind about why Britain has a chronic housing shortage’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/27/immigration-fuelling-uk-chronic-housing-shortage/ |

Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |

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0:00.0

The Telegraph.

0:09.0

Come on, we can't even afford stuff for our own children, and you are squandering tens of millions, even billions now, let's face it, on putting up undocumented foreign men.

0:24.3

Four.

0:25.4

You know what Farage is going to be singing this weekend?

0:28.8

Everyone's a fruit and nutcase.

0:30.8

Three.

0:32.2

We're sort of being marginalised and made to feel that we are criminals when all we are doing is saying we want to be safe.

0:42.3

Trump just basically went through the sort of top five issues biffing him metaphorically about the head.

0:50.3

One.

1:00.7

We have lift off. Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson.

1:08.0

Hello. And me, Liam Halligan. We've got grit and English blood. We just keep going. So said Hannah Hampton, goalkeeper of the lionesses, the England woman's football team,

1:12.6

which prevailed over Spain to win the European Championship for a second time in a row.

1:17.9

Hannah's blood was on display after she got whacked in the face, but she still displayed heroics

1:23.3

as England prevailed during the tense penalty shootout, a fluent Spanish speaker who overcame a childhood eye condition,

1:30.6

which meant doctors told her to avoid sport altogether,

1:34.4

Hannah deserves our heartfelt congratulations,

1:37.3

as do the entire England women's team.

1:40.6

If only, our government displayed a bit of English grit and determination, Alison.

1:45.0

Instead, Kirstarmer looks increasingly lost, definitely unprime ministerial,

1:50.5

as the country on Tuesday remembered the horrific stabbings in Southport,

1:55.2

in which Bibi King, Alistair Silver, queer, and Elsie Dot Stankham, innocent little girls, their whole lives ahead of them, were murdered while attending a Taylor Swift themed dance class.

2:08.0

Meanwhile, protests continued outside countless hotels across the country where illegal migrants are housed at vast public expense, an issue that was bad under the Tories, even worse under

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