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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.
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🪐NEW EPISODE🪐
As a new immersive theatre version of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy opens, its creator @arvd.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social discuss how Douglas Adams’ books nearly explain the world we live in today ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

#scifi #podcast #HHGTTG
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November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Another superb episode, thank you @nndroid.bsky.social and Podmasters for this, and the @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social with Cory Doctorow
🪐NEW EPISODE🪐
As a new immersive theatre version of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy opens, its creator @arvd.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social discuss how Douglas Adams’ books nearly explain the world we live in today ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

#scifi #podcast #HHGTTG
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The United States is a strange place. Has it ever not been a totally crazy country? @kurtandersen.bsky.social joins @jacobjarvis.bsky.social and @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social to discuss the weird history of America ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfriction

#USpolitics #Trump #AmericanPolitics #PoliticsPodcast
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🪐NEW EPISODE🪐
As a new immersive theatre version of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy opens, its creator @arvd.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social discuss how Douglas Adams’ books nearly explain the world we live in today ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

#scifi #podcast #HHGTTG
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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🔊 The one with the flute-whipping 😂 where @rafaelbehr.bsky.social suggests Starmer breaks out his flute. “That sounded like a really terrible, terrible euphemism. Please keep your flute to yourself. Do not whop out your flute in the House of Commons…” 🫵😘

🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
🚨Start Your Week🚨
It’s a big week for Starmer and Reeves as the Budget looms. How’s it going to go down? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and other news to look out for this week.

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November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Recorded v early this morning. I think you can probably hear the caffeine kick in ~10mins in.
🚨Start Your Week🚨
It’s a big week for Starmer and Reeves as the Budget looms. How’s it going to go down? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and other news to look out for this week.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🚨Start Your Week🚨
It’s a big week for Starmer and Reeves as the Budget looms. How’s it going to go down? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and other news to look out for this week.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
The Epstein files are due to be released and Trump has been trying to pretend he’s not losing his mind about it. @nikkimcr.bsky.social, @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfriction

#Trump #EpsteinFiles #USpolitics
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Me and Jonn on another week slopping back and forth between the Scylla of malicious governance and the Charybdis of bullshit.
🚨Weekly Wrap-Up🚨
As the Epstein walls close in on Trump, the President pulls a U-turn and says he wants the release of files he tried to suppress. How will they be redacted, and to save whom? @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨Weekly Wrap-Up🚨
As the Epstein walls close in on Trump, the President pulls a U-turn and says he wants the release of files he tried to suppress. How will they be redacted, and to save whom? @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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China has industrialised so quickly and relied on fossil fuels for so long that it has been one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. But now can China lead the way on battling climate change? Fascinating discussion with Barbara Finamore @bunkerpod.bsky.social
Can China save the world? Today on The Bunker, @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Barbara Finamore, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and author of Will China Save the Planet to discuss China and their clean-energy model 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#China #cleanenergy
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Can China save the world? Today on The Bunker, @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Barbara Finamore, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and author of Will China Save the Planet to discuss China and their clean-energy model 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#China #cleanenergy
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Joe Sacco is a legend of comics and it was fascinating to talk to him about his latest book, which turns an investigation of ethnic riots in Uttar Pradesh into riveting drama.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Comics journalist Joe Sacco talks to @nndroid.bsky.social about his absorbing new book The Once And Future Riot and about his life as a conflict cartoonist, creavity vs A.I., & how “comics journalism” can do things the TV news never can. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#JoeSacco #AI
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Comics journalist Joe Sacco talks to @nndroid.bsky.social about his absorbing new book The Once And Future Riot and about his life as a conflict cartoonist, creavity vs A.I., & how “comics journalism” can do things the TV news never can. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#JoeSacco #AI
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🤖💀 If you’re screaming at the computer because #Cloudflare is down and nothing works… Why not relax with this chat about how Trump just could turn off all of Europe’s internet if he got in a strop? Which he never does.

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November 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Today on The Bunker, @seththevoz.bsky.social is joined by @tomstandage.bsky.social, deputy editor of The Economist, to take a look at The Economist’s The World Ahead 2026 issue & find out what these trends mean for politics, the global economy & the human race 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Gov will tear us apart – Start Your Week with @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social. Starmer’s position remains in question after a week of chaos and the announcement of controversial new asylum plans. Can the narrative shift? Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#ukpolitics #Starmer
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨ICYMI🚨 Weekly wrap-up with @jacobjarvis.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social: Starmer’s briefing war with Wes Streeting, unpacking the latest revelations from the Epstein files, & asking the big question: could the BBC survive a billion dollar lawsuit from Donald Trump? 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Today on The Weekly-Wrap Up, @jacobjarvis.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social dig into Starmer’s briefing war with Wes Streeting, unpack the latest revelations from the Epstein files, & ask the big question: could the BBC survive a billion dollar lawsuit from Donald Trump? 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The incel crisis – Is there a way to solve it? Today on The Bunker, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social sits down with @kdenkwrites.com, author of INCEL The Weaponization of Misogyny, to ask, how do we solve the incel problem? 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#incelcrisis #podcast #episode
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Trump vs. Xi Jinping – Does America or China’s leader wield more power? @seththevoz.bsky.social is joined by Elizabeth Economy, a former Senior Advisor for China at the US Department of Commerce to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#Trump #Xi #China #politics #DonaldTrump #Jinping
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Will artificial intelligence kill the entire human race, and all life on the planet? Nate Soares joins @nndroid.bsky.social to discuss why the concept of an omnicidal super-A.I. is not just an outside possibility from sci-fi but almost a certainty 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#AI #podcast
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Coup at the BBC – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor. The BBC’s Director General and head of news are forced to resign in a confected row about Donald Trump’s incendiary Jan 6 speech. @nndroid.bsky.social joins @rostaylor.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#uknews #Trump
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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New thrill! We bookend your week with #WeeklyWrapUp, the perfect complement to Start Your Week

(Now brainstorming a Middle Your Week edition)
🚨NEW🚨 Join us for a weekly round-up of the biggest stories every Friday. Today @nndroid.bsky.social & @alexvont.bsky.social discuss Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York, “vibe coding,” Samir Zitouni, Rachel Reeves’ pre-budget nerves, & Donald Trump 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#podcast #news #weeklyroundup
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM