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💡 START YOUR WEEK 💡 Does Burnham's devolution agenda need a written constitution? Who is the new Greater Manchester mayor? Can FIFA's Infantino cling on? And will Trump's Iran Groundhog Day ever end? @jacobjarvis.bsky.social and @alexvont.bsky.social look at the week ahead ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

⏰ WEEKLY WRAP-UP ⏰ The Burnham bounce drives the right bonkers – can his momentum last? Trump spares Zelensky and Netanyahu an Oval Office evisceration – what did we learn from the meetings? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Putin thought Russia could steamroll Ukraine in just 10 days. Four and a half years of futile slaughter later… the unthinkable is becoming real and the "last empire" is doomed. International Relations Professor Alexander Etkind joins @alexvont.bsky.social to discuss what comes next.

What makes biological war even scarier than nuclear? @emmakennedy.bsky.social discusses with Annie Jacobsen, author of Biological War: A Scenario, in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

☣️ NEW EPISODE ☣️ A lab leak, a deliberate attack, a pandemic… Why genetically-altered pathogens are more serious by far than nuclear weapons. 🦠 Author of ’Biological Warfare: A Scenario’ ANNIE JACOBSEN explains the growing threat to @emmakennedy.bsky.social 🧫 Listen – linktr.ee/bunker_pod

How dare this man own trousers he didn’t find in a skip etc.

Steve Gallant spent over 16 years in jail for murder and then – on his very first day release – he helped stop the 2019 London Bridge terror attack. Now a writer and prison safety consultant, he talks to @zoegrunewald.bsky.social about Britain’s prison crisis ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🚨 START YOUR WEEK 🚨 France and Spain on fire, Burnham’s big plans for Week 2, India’s Cockroach protests and thank God there’s a Spider-Man movie coming out 🕸️ 📲 @rostaylor.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social set out the stories of the week ahead. 📲 Listen – linktr.ee/bunker_pod

💸 SLEAZE NATION – How to fight Britain’s corruption pandemic 💷 Britain just posted its lowest-EVER score on a global corruption index. What are we going to do about it? Corruption expert Robert Barrington talks to @misszing.bsky.social 🪎 Listen - shows.acast.com/the-bunker/e...

⏰WEEKLY WRAP-UP⏰ Did Andy Burnham’s first week go to plan? Will Donald Trump ever drop his election interference conspiracy? And will Mel Gibson make Elon Musk's Odyssey dreams come true? @seththevoz.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social look back on the big stories of the week.

How did a controversial US tech firm – whose AI powers military strikes in Gaza and Iran and ICE’s immigration raids, and whose founder Peter Thiel thinks the NHS makes people sick – wheedle its way into Westminster? We asked @petergeoghegan.bsky.social. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

⭐️ Why does everything need a star rating these days? And what is it doing to our brains? Author Benji Wilson and @emmakennedy.bsky.social discuss the tyranny of the little black star…  ★★★★★ – “Excellent episode, would listen again” Listen shows.acast.com/the-bunker/e...

🐴 ΝΕΟ ΠΟΔΚΑΣΤ 🐴 The right-wing culture war moaners get it colossally wrong as #TheOdyssey proves a massive global hit. What makes it tick? 🐴 Ardent classicist @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & ignorant commoner @nndroid.bsky.social indulge in Socratic dialogue 🐴 Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Rally may never have been so close to power. So how did we get here? From the Dreyfus Affair to the rise of her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, @alexvont.bsky.social and Enda O’Doherty trace the country’s complicated political past. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Nigel Farage launched a “people versus establishment” by-election in Clacton – but which side is he REALLY on? Dr @vladimirbortun.bsky.social joins @zoegrunewald.bsky.social to read the runes. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Don’t miss the LIVE event they’re already calling “the indoor Knebworth of dazzling political repartee and/or Ian swearing uncontrollably at the very words ‘Matt Goodwin’.”

Burnham is finally going to become Prime Minister – but can he really move faster than his predecessor? And will simply communicating better make all that much difference? @gavinesler.bsky.social joins @jacobjarvis.bsky.social to unpack the week’s biggest stories. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

 A World Cup rollercoaster ends in disappointment for England against Argentina – but it all seems unimportant next to the repercussions from the awful killing of Ann Widdecombe. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to discuss the biggest stories of the week. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Peter Thiel’s Palantir — branded “the scariest company on the planet” — has a terrible reputation. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social talks to @nndroid.bsky.social about his investigation into Palantir and how it wheedled its way into the corridors of power. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Nigel Farage is under fire over his £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire – but does British politics have a wider money problem? Dr Sam Power, a leading expert on party political funding, joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to decipher who really pays your MP. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod