The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense

Trump shatters international law, triggers a conflagration across the Middle East. Also: Shabana Mahmood doubles down on immigration after the Gorton & Denton disaster. The Fall of the House of Brewdog and more with @jonnelledge.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🚨ICYMI🚨
Reform want to launch a British equivalent to America's much-loathed ICE if they get into power. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social & @sundersays.bsky.social discuss why that would be a horrible, unworkable idea ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

This is a good listen. I remember the Bicentennial with fondness and I’m regarding the “Semiquincentennial” with great trepidation. Also, good to talk to a US politics person who’s not from NY or Washington.

My first education in American constitutional politics, from 1976, as referenced in today’s @bunkerpod.bsky.social about the “Semiquincentennial”.

Listen up, oppressors – linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Is Trump using America’s 250th anniversary to rebrand the USA in his own gaudy, aggressive, white nationalist image? South Carolina political commentator Mike Bedenbaugh, author of Reviving Our Republic, joins @nndroid.bsky.social to discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

⏰ START YOUR WEEK ⏰ Will Trump’s attack on Iran topple the regime or set off a regional war? Plus the fallout from #Gorton&Denton and more.

⏰ With @rafaelbehr.bsky.social & @jacobjarvis.bsky.social ⏰ Out now everywhere – linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🔊 The one where @rafaelbehr.bsky.social sums up the rambling ☢️🎃 bloke's stream of nonsense, lies and falsehood with @jacobjarvis.bsky.social in their #WeeklyWrapUp.

Then summarises the difference between authoritarian and totalitarian governments…

🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

Tomorrow’s #WeeklyWrapUp is out early! We take a closer look at Trump’s barmy State of the Union, Labour’s SEND reforms, the latest from North Korea, and a fleet of AI-powered hoovers with @rafaelbehr.bsky.social & @jacobjarvis.bsky.social

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Just listened Daniel Susskind on this podcast talking about a future where knowledge worker jobs are replaced.

It's simultaneously very interesting and troubling.

My main takeaway is that even someone very smart who spends their days thinking about this doesn't have much idea what will happen.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
The sudden ousting of two of China’s top military leaders has sparked intense speculation about what it says about Xi Jinping’s grip on power. @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by @merics.bsky.social expert Daria Impiombato ➡️
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Trump is causing chaos again with a tariff tantrum, while Starmer’s Labour faces a major test at the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election. @gavinesler.bsky.social joins @jacobjarvis.bsky.social to discuss the key stories to look out for in the week ahead.

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particularly good episode, this

Could old Frog-Face really bombard Britain with dictatorial orders the way his idol in Washington does? The OGWN team discuss…

🚨 ALERT 🚨 Tomorrow’s #WeeklyWrapUp is out early for obvious reasons. The Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrest, Reform’s weird Shadow Shadow Cabinet, RFK and Kid Rock behaving absolutely normally, and more witjh @alexvont.bsky.social & @jacobjarvis.bsky.social
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🤖 NEW EDITION 🤖 Will #AI create a world where nobody works? And will it be a lotus-eating Oscar Wilde paradise or a Matrix-style world of pain and penury?
🦾 Daniel Susskind, author of A World Without Work, talks it over with @nndroid.bsky.social
🗂️ Listen everywhere – linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🔊 It seem unsustainable yet, “right now Russia is replenishing its losses more effectively than Ukraine is replenishing its losses. And that is a very, very important part of the dynamic of this conflict if you project it out to the months and years ahead.”

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Really fascinating conversation with @shashj.bsky.social from The Economist on Russia’s weaknesses as well as strengths

This is a great conversation with author Eric Schlosser on where our food system is now, 25 years after the publication of his book #FastFoodNation:

And if you found today’s OGWN useful, this morning’s Bunker digs deeper into a related issue:

Is the Russian military really as strong as Putin wants us to believe?

📲 NEW EPISODE 📲 The Russia military continues to commit atrocities in Ukraine, but it really as fearsome as we’re told? The Economist’s @shashj.bsky.social takes @gavinesler.bsky.social inside Putin’s military machine.
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Sir Keir gives you the side-eye you deserve if you’re not listening to The Bunker.

WE’RE LOST IN MUNICH… CAUGHT IN A TRAP…

⏰ START YOUR WEEK ⏰ Munich Security Conference consequences, Labour accelerates teen social media ban, Reform to announce their Shadow Cabinet (?)… and are you ready for the Chinese Year of the Fire Horse? 🧧🔥🐴
Ask @rostaylor.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social
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📳 WEEKLY WRAP-UP 📳 Seven days in hell for Keir Starmer plus Pam Bondi’s Epstein disgrace, Jim Ratcliffe opens his big stupid billionaire mouth, and Peppa Pig in pork scratchings brouhaha.
🎙️ @jonnelledge.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social recap it all for you
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Great to have you on the pod!

🪾 NEW EPISODE 🪾 The Full Brontë – Why are we still arguing about #WutheringHeights 170 years since it was written? @samanthaellis.bsky.social & @alexvont.bsky.social get out on the wily, windy moor to discuss it.
💔 HEATHCLIFF!! It‘s me, I’m Cathy on your phone (or other device) linktr.ee/bunker_pod

What's very interesting macdonalds are completely part of the culture now, totally normal,of everyone under 35. Even vegetarian friends etc, go regularly to fast food chains. The food remains cheap, unhealthy, and ethically questionable, but nobody seems able to fight or find alternatives.

🍔 NEW EPISODE 🍔 In 2001 the classic book #FastFoodNation exposed the horrors of the convenience restaurant business. 25 years later are things better… or worse? Author Eric Schlosser talks to @nndroid.bsky.social
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📳 NEW EDITION 📳 Is US foreign policy really being run on Trump’s whims… or is there a coherent agenda under the chaos? Economist geopolitics editor @dsorennie.bsky.social takes @seththevoz.bsky.social on a journey into America’s new belligerence.
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🚨Start Your Week🚨
Labour’s widely unpopular senior advisor Morgan McSweeney falls on his sword but will it be enough to stop Starmer from being consumed by the Mandelson/Epstein fallout? @nndroid.bsky.social and @gavinesler.bsky.social discuss this and more ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod