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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense
@bunkerpod.bsky.social
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Your morning primer on news, politics, economics, culture and current affairs – five days a week.
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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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🚨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
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🤖💀 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
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🚨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
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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
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🚨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
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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
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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
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🚨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
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🚨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
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🚨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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🚨ICYMI🚨 @nndroid.bsky.social & @alexvont.bsky.social wrap up the week and 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 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨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 7:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Playwright @deldridgewriter.bsky.social talks to @nndroid.bsky.social about adapting le Carré’s deep, dark vision for 2025 – why he expanded the role of George Smiley – and what The Spy has to say about the West’s new Cold War with Putin 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#thespy #podcast
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 One year of Trump 2.0 – Does scandal mean anything anymore? @emmakennedy.bsky.social is joined by Casey Burgat to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#trump #uspolitics #podcast
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🚨Start Your Week🚨
The horrific train attack at the weekend has shaken the nation. But are the media and politicians talking about it responsibly? @gavinesler.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and more in Start Your Week ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨 Five ways Trump's reign might end with @reedgalen.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#Trump #podcast #uspolitics
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨 How will Trump fall? @reedgalen.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to discuss five ways the Trump Nightmare could end 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#Trump #podcast
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 @reedgalen.bsky.social, founder of anti-Trump Republicans The Lincoln Project, President of the pro-democracy campaign JoinTheUnion.us & host of The Home Front Podcast joins @nndroid.bsky.social to discuss five ways the Trump Nightmare could end 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#Trump #podcast
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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🚨NEW🚨 Figures like Leila Khaled and Carlos the Jackal turned political violence into global theatre. @jasonburke2.bsky.social joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss how these figures reshaped global politics, and what their legacy reveals about ideology, glamour and violence 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Today on The Bunker, @jacobjarvis.bsky.social is joined by @russbuettner.bsky.social, journalist and author of Lucky Loser, to take a magnifying glass to Trump’s finances and ask how a serially failing businessman convinced millions he was the ultimate winner? 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Very sad news about the death of Prunella Scales, whose Sybil Fawlty was one of Britain’s greatest comic creations.
Hear @jasonhazeley.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social on the genius of #FawltyTowers:

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October 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Today on The Bunker, @alexvont.bsky.social is joined by @massdara.bsky.social to find out what lessons has Russia learned from its early failures? And how the West could face a more dangerous, more adaptable enemy next time. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

#Russia #Putin #podcast
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨OUT NOW🚨

Migration madness intensifies as the fugitive sex offender is recaptured, and Labour fights fire over the ruinous cost of asylum hotels – which was created by the previous Conservative government. Will Starmer carry the can for the Tories’ complacency?

Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨

Have Americans always hated the president?

@democracyprof.bsky.social joins @alexvont.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

#trump #uspolitics #donaldtrump
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM