Pod Save an Island of Strangers

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Coco’s back! She’s both sleep and politics deprived, but Nish is ready to fill her in. The government's shake-up of legal migration laws landed this week - but the news has been dominated by one question. Is Keir Starmer Enoch Powell incarnate? His speech warned that we ‘risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks together’ - a careless comment or a reaction to Reform gains? Nish and Coco dissect and take a deep dive into the government’s plans with Minnie Rahman, CEO of migrants' rights charity Praxis. Next up, the Government are jumping for joy about the US-UK trade deal, but Nish struggles to find anything to say… is this just a downgrade portrayed as an upgrade? The race for the next leader of the Greens is on, and will Youngblud make a foray into politics? Nish and Coco discuss how to capture the youth vote. And grassroots football teams are fighting back against the FA’s ban on trans women playing football. CHECK OUT THIS DEAL FROM OUR SPONSOR Shopify: https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk Useful Links: To find out more about how people will be impacted check out Praxis' socials and ⁠sign up to their emails⁠ for campaign actions.’ https://everpress.com/gdfc-let-the-dolls-play https://www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/nish-kumar-nish-dont-kill-my-vibe Guest: Minnie Rahman, CEO of Praxis Audio Credits: BBC Parliament TV Kemi badenoch / X Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Potsay for UK. I'm Coco Khan. I'm Nish Kumar and Coco, you are back. I'm back.
0:10.4	Don't call it a comeback because also I'm just still in my flat, so it's not really quite. I'm sleep deprived.
0:16.2	I've hardly followed any politics for the last month, to be completely honest. But if I had to guess
0:21.1	what's been happening, I'd say it's probably not that dissimilar to what was happening before I left.
0:26.0	So the Tories are in shambles. Labor is becoming the Tories in how they're turning right. And
0:31.7	everyone is running scared of Nigel Farage. That sums it up. Yep. On the show today, we'll talk
0:36.8	about Labor's right with moves with their immigration the show today, we'll talk about Labour's Right
0:37.5	with moves with their immigration white paper and we'll be chatting with Mini Rahman, CEO of
0:41.8	the charity campaigning on migrant rights, Praxis. Plus, I hear there's some trade deals afoot. Is this
0:48.4	a win for Kirstama? It's complicated. We'll also have an update on the Green Party's leadership race and we'll be asking, should we be looking beyond our regular political choices?
1:00.3	So, Coco, how have you been? I want to know, the listeners want to know, everybody wants to know.
1:05.7	Well, I mean, you know, having a baby for the first time, it's a very emotional experience.
1:10.9	There's been enormous highs, some of the greatest highs of my life and some of the greatest
1:14.8	lows of my life, often just 10 minutes in between them.
1:18.4	So it really is, you're just sort of mainlining life.
1:21.2	Everything's very raw and very heightened.
1:23.3	But, you know, it's good.
1:24.4	I'm very sleep deprived.
1:25.6	I hallucinate now from sleep deprivation. That's what I do.
1:29.3	I will say that motherhood doesn't seem to have changed you. I have had several conversations with you in the past where I ask you what you've been up to and you say there's been a lot of highs and a lot of lows and there are occasional hallucinations.
1:41.5	In a way, it's just a sort of natural progression, really. Who needs acid when you can have a baby?
1:47.5	I mean, it really is opening doors of perception. I have this moment the other day. I hope this is not a
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