Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar.

And I'm Cocoa Khan and today we're going on an adventure in the Culture War.

I hate that phrase cultural war. What even is that?

It's the more boring sequel to the Star Wars film franchise.

I really wish it was an actual like cultured war.

You know, like, oh, let's fight about Lucien Freud or Sigmund Freud.

Who was the best?

So talk about the culture of war and how screwed it's left us all.

We'll be joined by political commentator Ash Sarker.

And later we'll be discussing Labour's latest drama and give you a quick update on the bins that got you all fired up last week.

But first, there's been a lot of big stories this week.

Trump has threatened steel tariffs which could disrupt our economy.

The ceasefire in Gaza hangs in the balance and the UK has refused to sign an international declaration to make AI open,

inclusive and ethical. But today we want to focus on immigration. We don't want to focus on

immigration. We have felt obliged to focus on immigration. Right. So Parliament this week saw the second

reading of the government's new border security bill. Simultaneously,

the Home Office dropped a press release saying that nearly 19,000 foreign criminals and people

with no right to be in the UK have now been removed since the government took office.

Foreign criminals, those are the words and people with no right to work. It is clearly

in century language and in typical

British news fashion, the TV headlines regurgitated it. The government today announced the

fruits of his efforts to deport foreign criminals and illegal migrants. Thousands of illegal migrants

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