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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense

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Your morning primer on news, politics, economics, culture and current affairs – five days a week. Listen here 📳 linktr.ee/bunker_pod Support us on Patreon 💷 www.patreon.com/bunkercast

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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 19h
🚨 The far-right is reshaping politics across Europe. So what's driving its rise? What do these movements have in common? How did we get here – and what might happen next? 🚨 NYT’s chief diplomatic correspondent for Europe Steven Erlanger and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🙋🏼 We want YOUR questions for this week’s show. 🙋🏽‍♀️ Post ’em here or email to ogwn@podmasters.co.uk by 1pm on Weds 30. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Want to know more? FREE TO READ: www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow...
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Labour are in Liverpool, hanging the UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT sign over the Government. Is it working? What about the bizarre RAF Fairford episo
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Once, Britain and Germany were the closest of friends. But by the 20th century, relations spectacularly unravelled. How did best pals become bitter enemies (and find their way back)? Professor of History at Birkbeck University Jan Rüger and @alexvont.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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American Friction @americanfric.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Does anybody in the White House know how to handle A.I.? The answer is no! Media expert @jeffjarvis.bsky.social explains more to @jacobjarvis.bsky.social in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfric...
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🗞️ START YOUR WEEK 🗞️ Streeting, Miliband and Healey take the Labour conference stage as Burnham proposes major social care reforms. Plus: what to know about the suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford. 🗞️ @nndroid.bsky.social & @rostaylor.bsky.social look at the week ahead ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you’re looking for something mind-expanding while you’re cooking the dinner and fearing Monday, we’ve got just the ticket.
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🗓️ WEEKLY WRAP-UP 🗓️ Can Burnham defeat Russia’s slopaganda? Trump meets Xi, Piers Morgan vs Earl Spencer (can’t they both lose?), “Danny Thommo” gets his collar felt… and more stories that shaped the week. 🗓️ With @rafaelbehr.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social 🗓️ Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a brilliant, concise takedown of the “Crime-ridden Britain” myth. You should share it with every Uncle Ken and Auntie Sue who are too frightened to visit London because Nigel tells them they’re going to get knifecrimed.
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most British people’s idea of the real crime rate is enormously out of whack with reality… but extreme politicians and rightwing newspapers have zero interest in enlightening them. This is a brilliant edition that you really should share with any Reform-curious or Daily-Mail-afflicted relatives.
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🫆 “Murder is down about 20% since 2010… but 6 in 10 people think it’s the same or it’s gone up.” 🫆 How demagogues and human psychology have convinced Britain we’re in the middle of an imaginary crimewave. 🫆 With @misszing.bsky.social & Prof @bobbyduffy.bsky.social 🫆 Listen – linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Is Britain really the crime-ridden hellhole the right says it is? Well… no, not really. Crime has largely fallen over the past decade – so why do people think it’s getting worse? KCL professor @bobbyduffy.bsky.social and @misszing.bsky.social debunk the myths 🎧 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is your phone the only one that really understands you? @alexisconran.com tells @emmakennedy.bsky.social what your iPhone is actually up to when it’s in your pocket, and just how much it could be listening to more than just your conversations. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🕷️ NEW EPISODE 🕷️ Why do some cultures loathe spiders and others love and revere them? Harvard folklore expert Maria Tatar takes spider-fan @nndroid.bsky.social into the Spider-Verse with her fascinating book Arachnomania 🕸️ Listen on the, ahem, web – linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📵 NEW EPISODE 📵 You’ve just been discussing a new kettle, only to be served an advert for exactly that minutes later. Is it just a coincidence or could your phone be listening in? Consumer champion @alexisconran.com and @emmakennedy.bsky.social discuss what’s really going on ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As Burnham heads to meet Trump for the first time, what do you think he should say to the US president? 👀
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
☀️ START YOUR WEEK ☀️ Andy Burnham will finally meet Donald Trump this week – how will he fare? Plus: Further issues for the UN, Labour’s conference kicks off and more. @alexvont.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social look at the week ahead ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Farage is bracing for legal war over any challenge to Reform’s mega money donations. But is his brand terminally damaged already? Plus, A.I. is being debated again and a village has chosen to 'leave the UK'... @jonnelledge.bsky.social joins @jacobjarvis.bsky.social to discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As AI leaders begin to confirm some of our worst fears about the technology, @misszing.bsky.social asked AI expert and author of The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt what happens next... Listen to the full conversation with Stephen on our episode 'AI has finally gone rogue'. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod.
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In the wake of Farage and Reform’s record-breaking £36m donation from Ben Delo, @seththevoz.bsky.social looks back at some of British politics' biggest donations. Hear the full conversation via ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a speech to the European Parliament, Mark Carney argued that “Europe and Canada are stronger together” as he pushes for closer ties between Canada and the EU. So what could closer Canada-EU ties actually mean? And should Andy Burnham be doing the same?
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Pre-eminent chronicler of espionage Ben Macintyre joins @alexvont.bsky.social to reveal how a Soviet spy may have saved the world due to a very personal problem... Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Tufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 16/09/2026
🎧 The one that posits “the reason they dress like nine-year-old boys is because they're world builders, they're playing dungeons and dragons, but with us.” 🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The future has arrived, and it’s starting to look suspiciously like something tech billionaires dreamt about as children. @emmakennedy.bsky.social speaks to historian Jill Lepore about how these strange oligarchs are warping society ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is loved by the left and loathed by the right in equal measure. She keeps being tipped to go to the very top in US politics – could she be the next American president? @jacobjarvis.bsky.social asks The Guardian's Washington bureau chief David Smith ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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David @thefatfryer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@gavinesler.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social make a hell of a listen. Thanks to both. Keep up the good work lads, this is worth the Patrion all by itself.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Follow the money? Worth a listen: @bunkerpod.bsky.social
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How 9/11 made Trump inevitable. Our 3-part @bunkerpod.bsky.social series concludes today with national security journalist @attackerman.bsky.social on the dark roots of MAGA Listen to all episodes: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reform and Farage have raked in mega donations the likes of which British politics has never seen before. What does this money mean for democracy? @gavinesler.bsky.social joins @jacobjarvis.bsky.social to discuss the fallout and other news to look out for this week. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🗞️ WEEKLY WRAP-UP 🗞️ Will Farage face the Met? Why is Miliband sanctioning Israeli settlers in the West Bank? And is Trump really "bribing" Americans in an attempt to win the midterms? @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social recap the big stories of the week ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 TERROR CENTURY EP.3 🚨 Did 9/11 make Donald Trump inevitable? Journalist and writer @attackerman.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to explain how 15 years of failed wars and distrust of elites and institutions helped create the conditions for Trump to exploit ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨 TERROR CENTURY EP. 2 🚨 What did 9/11 do to our civil liberties? And did the freedoms suspended in its aftermath ever come back? Former ACLU National Legal Director @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social tells @nndroid.bsky.social how the attacks transformed the security landscape ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s 25 years this week since 9/11. We’ve put together a 3-part series explaining how the terror attacks set America on the road to electing Trump. Part 1 starts with an astonishing eyewitness account of the attack on the Pentagon. Don’t miss it. Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨A new three-part mini-series from The Bunker… 🚨 Are we still living in the world that 9/11 created? In our first episode, @nndroid.bsky.social speaks to @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social about the atmosphere that created the War on Terror and how 9/11 still shapes our world ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Farage is trying every excuse he can after *that* documentary. Will they work? @seththevoz.bsky.social, @jonnelledge.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social discuss the fallout ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨START YOUR WEEK🚨 Nigel Farage is trying some pretty baffling excuses after last week's sting videos. Can he ride this out? @alexvont.bsky.social joins @jacobjarvis.bsky.social to discuss this and the other big news to look out for this week ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you’re not listening to The Bunker… why?
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Tufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 04/09/2026
🔊 The one with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social on financial crimes, where @jim.londoncentric.media notes “once you realise that taxes are optional, everything makes a bit more sense… a legitimate business can’t compete with one that unilaterally opts out of paying taxes.“ 😳 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
PS: We thought you’d also want to hear @jacobjarvis.bsky.social and @rmcunliffe.bsky.social's fast reaction on The Bunker, so you can also listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🗣️ WEEKLY WRAP-UP 🗣️ Burnham and Badenoch face-off at PMQs, Reform conference begins (more on this coming soon 👀…), Polanski eyes Starmer’s old seat and feminist icon Gloria Steinem dies. @seththevoz.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social round up the big stories of the week ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From Reform’s latest griftfest to PMQs fallout and dodgy vape shops, it’s been quite a week... Hear from @rostaylor.bsky.social, @nndroid.bsky.social, @seththevoz.bsky.social @jim.londoncentric.media and more across this week’s episodes of The Bunker. LISTEN HERE ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New OGWN out now… and there may well be more later today.
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Is that mini-mart laundering money? Why have five barbershops opened on the same street? What’s really going on behind those bright facades? @jim.londoncentric.media entric.media joins @zoegrunewald.bsky.social to unpack the murky underworld beneath Britain’s high streets. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Andy Burnham has declared war on “dodgy” vape shops, branding them a scourge of the high street that only his government can defeat. London Centric's @jim.londoncentric.media and @zoegrunewald.bsky.social discuss the murky world behind Britain’s high streets 🎧 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🇺🇸 NEW EPISODE 🇺🇸 Liar, bully, a gay man who hated gays, mentor to Donald Trump… Lawyer ROY COHN could well be the worst American in modern history (until his protégé, that is). 🇺🇸 His biographer KAI BIRD talks @nndroid.bsky.social through the life and death of a monster. 🇺🇸 Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Luke is absolutely riveting on this.
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This Is Not A Drill @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Putin thought he could conquer Ukraine with a tank, air and infantry-led attack. Instead Kyiv turned the tables... Our new mini-series with @gavinesler.bsky.social explores the fastest transformation of warfare for half a century. Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🗞️ START YOUR WEEK 🗞️ Burnham's carefree summer of announcing fun policies is over as Parliament returns with tricky questions on defence funding, prisoner release and more. @rostaylor.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social take you through the stories of the week ahead ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Zoë and I seize the chance to talk, for once, about an unambiguously decent person who brought only good into the world. (And then the usual tales of misery, dishonesty, cruelty and stupidity. Hey, we’re not magicians).
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s death leaves the world brokenhearted. Plus: Meta caves in an $18bn settlement and Burnham visits Zelensky in Kyiv – and jams to The Smiths. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social round up the biggest stories of the week ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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