Nish Kumar

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If you couldn't pick out that tune, that was Sandstorm by Darude. And I don't think I ever thought I'd be saying Keir Starmer's name in the same sentence as Darude. To borrow a phrase from the comedian Maria Bamford, I'm actually surprised that Sandstorm is still speaking to people.

If you couldn't pick out that tune, that was Sandstorm by Darude. And I don't think I ever thought I'd be saying Keir Starmer's name in the same sentence as Darude. To borrow a phrase from the comedian Maria Bamford, I'm actually surprised that Sandstorm is still speaking to people.

No, I think they're playing live. Wow. That's just brilliant. This is not a Milli Vanilli situation.

No, I think they're playing live. Wow. That's just brilliant. This is not a Milli Vanilli situation.

Now, look, last week we had our say on the government's latest moves on immigration, including denying citizenship to asylum seekers who arrive outside of legal channels and grossly sharing footage of people being deported. We called it performative cruelty. And it turns out loads of people within the Labour Party agree.

Now, look, last week we had our say on the government's latest moves on immigration, including denying citizenship to asylum seekers who arrive outside of legal channels and grossly sharing footage of people being deported. We called it performative cruelty. And it turns out loads of people within the Labour Party agree.

A group of over 900 Labour members and trade unions have signed an open letter decrying the government's latest moves, including MPs and former guests on our show, Nadia Whitham, Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Clive Lewis.

A group of over 900 Labour members and trade unions have signed an open letter decrying the government's latest moves, including MPs and former guests on our show, Nadia Whitham, Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Clive Lewis.

Yeah, it was good.

Yeah, it was good.

Yeah, and, you know, again, like... I said it last week. I'm sure I've said it about 100 times. There are wealth extractors bleeding our country dry, but they are simply not immigrants and asylum seekers.

Yeah, and, you know, again, like... I said it last week. I'm sure I've said it about 100 times. There are wealth extractors bleeding our country dry, but they are simply not immigrants and asylum seekers.

It's easier to rhetorically whack the powerless. The more complicated thing to do is to go after the people actively responsible, the wealth extractors, who for the last 15, 20 years have sort of bled this country dry.

It's easier to rhetorically whack the powerless. The more complicated thing to do is to go after the people actively responsible, the wealth extractors, who for the last 15, 20 years have sort of bled this country dry.

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