🔎 Our annual search for the weirdest moments of the year reaches its climax. ➡️ Join @gavinesler.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social and @jasonhazeley.bsky.social for a roundup of the year’s most absurd events. 🚗 Ideal for long car journeys! Listen — linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🔊 The one in which both @alexvont.bsky.social and @jasonhazeley.bsky.social immediately push back on @gavinesler.bsky.social suggesting that we will not miss Blu-Ray players! Very much agree with them both on act of owning physical media, though I won't collect. 🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

Looking back on 2025 you can either laugh or cry. We decided to laugh. Join us @bunkerpod.bsky.social for that was the weird year that was

🔮 Our annual search for the 20 Weirdest Moments of the Year is out now. 🕵🏻‍♂️ Join @gavinesler.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social & @jasonhazeley.bsky.social on WeirdQuest 2025 ⏳ Part Two tomorrow… or right now if you’re on Patreon! 📳 Listen now linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Have a great Christmas and listen to the weird and wonderful highlights of the utterly bonkers year known as 2025 … with me and @alexvont.bsky.social and @jasonhazeley.bsky.social … And find out our pick of the weirdest moment of 2025 (yes we were spoiled for choice …)

China was once seen as Big Pharma’s factory floor. Now it’s building the labs, funding the science, and racing to create the next blockbuster drugs. @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by @financialtimes.com journalist Eleanor Olcott to find out what’s behind this pivot. Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Real insight into how fast China is changing and how far it may dominate pharmaceutical innovation in the future - worth a listen @bunkerpod.bsky.social

Opinion | 'Cummings’ extraordinary talent for disruption meant his wrecking-ball abilities are unparalleled in recent British political history’ 🖋️ @gavinesler.bsky.social ➡️Read more: trib.al/exrFJei

Yes!

This is wake-up call for Labour MPs. 👋 Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.

ICYMI — To make sense of the US-led peace process so far and how a potential deal might realistically be achieved, @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Steven Pifer to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

Russia-Ukraine Deal. Can anyone force Putin to change course? Steven Pifer joins @gavinesler.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod #Trump #RussiaUkraine #Putin #politics #USPOL #podcast #podcasts

Really interesting to hear the views of the USA’s former Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer on the latest twists and turns in US deal making with Putin. Have a listen @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social

Cheer up … it’s only Politics As Usual … @bunkerpod.bsky.social

Amid all the gloom in the world - how about a bit of hope? Nick Mabey gives a fascinating account of where the international effort on climate change is making progress - and where it isn’t. @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social

🚨ICYMI🚨 War on the world – Are conflicts leading us to climate oblivion? Nick Mabey, founding director and CEO of independent climate change organisation @e3g.bsky.social - and also the founder of London Climate Action Week joins @gavinesler.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod #climate

A good campaigner would tell a story about how new proposals fit into values of party and country. Where we've come from, where we're going. "Who am I, who are we, what's our common purpose" (per @gavinesler.bsky.social's book on leadership). We never hear answers to that from this govt

Too many politicians, journalists and commentators have been so behind (deliberately perhaps) on Chinese green development for too long. ‘But what about China…’ has been a tedious refrain against climate-change action. Thanks to discussions like this, that will be increasingly untenable. 💚

Thank you @andyinafield.bsky.social

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

I just re-read this gem by Lord Hannan. It has been a few years since I looked at it. Incredible Stuff. The myopia is one thing. But the way literally every global development has been misjudged. Amazing. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

🚨ICYMI🚨Can we stop the fall of Europe? @gavinesler.bsky.social and leading economic thinker and political commentator David Marsh discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod #politics #podcast #Europe #economy

@gavinesler.bsky.social is worth a follow on this. And his missive "How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations" is well worth a read too. Interesting times ahead. 2/2

Dear Britain: Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR. ➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74) 🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110) 🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38) 🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55) 🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10) 🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2) 🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)

Miserable Musk

Well that’s an interesting possible campaign slogan ….

🚨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

Nice thread with recipes etc bsky.app/profile/gavi...

🚨ICYMI🚨 @schneier.com joins @gavinesler.bsky.social to discuss dictators, big tech and the future of authoritarianism. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod #AI #artificialintelligence #Putin #Trump

Remember Big Brother? Well, maybe he’s already in your phone or laptop … definitely worth a listen on how big tech and authoritarian leaders may have something in common… your information… listen: @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social with @schneier.com

Big tech and big threats to our privacy and our democracy? We get an expert view from @schneier.com This Is Not A Drill @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

Worth a listen - @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social

Nigel Farage "Why do I never get called for questions?" "Have you tried submitting them?"

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The populist playbook - how the right wing connects globally. In today’s episode, @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Dr Catherine Fieschi, senior fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod #politics #podcast

Worth a listen -

Thanks Tom - a real eye opener this one

Me too. They are part of the Best of Britain and we sometimes take these brave volunteers for granted -

Thank you 👍

One of the many things that mean you love your country - and you don’t need to wave a flag to prove it

ICYMI @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Dr. Aaron Edwards to explore how Britain’s far right past is shaping its turbulent present, and why this time things could end very differently. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod #ukpolitics #podcast

The far right in the UK has long roots in our history- have a listen @bunkerpod.bsky.social

All very amusing, but especially this: "The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support." www.politico.eu/article/labo...

Yes let’s trust idiots instead. That should work.

What is the reality of the cyber threat to the UK? We hear from @mrjamessullivan.bsky.social Director of Cyber and Tech at the Royal United Services Institute- definitely worth a listen @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social

Thank you .. true story .. couldn’t make it up…

NEW EPISODE China on the move – Is Beijing pouncing as Washington withdraws? @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Jeffrey Prescott, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome and, to find out what a century of Chinese influence could look like across the globe 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

He is far from alone. Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Frogs, raccoons and some serious diplomacy & politics - it’s going to be quite a week … @bunkerpod.bsky.social