🚨OUT NOW🚨 Nigel Farage is on the rise, Keir Starmer is stumbling and the Conservatives are fading into irrelevance. Should we be worried? @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by @bwalker.uk, senior data journalist at The New Statesman and founder of Britain Elects to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Political leaders are rewriting the rules of public debate and the media is in the firing line. @alexvont.bsky.social speaks to @panievsky.bsky.social, author of The New Censorship, about how the war on the media became one of the defining battles of our age 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

“All we can do is protest and we’re not protesting enough.” @jeffjarvis.bsky.social talks about how the Democratic establishment is failing in America. Full discussion here 👉 linktr.ee/americanfric... #uspolitics #trump

In recent weeks we’ve seen right wing protestors and their figureheads take to the streets – often touting conspiracy theories with no basis in fact. How did we get here? And can we turn back? Writer and broadcaster Dr Matthew Sweet joins @alisonjourno.bsky.social to discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Starmer announced the UK’s recognition of Palestine as a state at the weekend – what will this mean for foreign relations and the ongoing crisis in Gaza? @alexvont.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss the news to look out for in the week ahead ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Fawlty Towers captures middle Britain at its most hilariously uptight and Basil Fawlty has never been bettered as an Englishman on the verge of nervous breakdown. Comedy writer @jasonhazeley.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to explore why the show’s legend lasted so long ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🚨ICYMI🚨 With Jimmy Kimmel's firing, the crisis for satire in America deepens. South Park is very much on the frontline – listen back to our episode with @ciaramoloney.bsky.social about how it's leading the fight for free speech. 📣 Listen now: play.megaphone.fm/hwpmseaaslkx... #JimmyKimmel

@zoejardiniere.bsky.social from the Stop Trump Coalition and one of the organisers of the Stop Trump Protest speaks about the devastating ways in which Trump is manipulating the media. #trump #uspolitics

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Anti-Trump protesters gathered in London yesterday to showcase their disdain for the US president. @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social headed over to ask them what message they wanted to get across to him ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfric... Watch the full film on Spotify🎥

🔊 The one in which @drkatedevlin.bsky.social chats with @alexvont.bsky.social about a 🤖 future. “It’s just so baked into everything. So how do we resist when we can’t escape it?” “So it’s not that we’ve under estimated it, I think we’ve been ambushed by it.” 🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

🚨ICYMI🚨 With Jimmy Kimmel's firing, the crisis for satire in America deepens. South Park is very much on the frontline – listen back to our episode with @ciaramoloney.bsky.social about how it's leading the fight for free speech. 📣 Listen now: play.megaphone.fm/hwpmseaaslkx... #JimmyKimmel

AI promised helpful assistants. Instead, some users find “friends,” therapists, even lovers. But when bots reflect our thoughts back at us, paranoia, mania and worse can follow. @drkatedevlin.bsky.social joins @alexvont.bsky.social, to discuss the risks of chatbots. Listen now: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

China is challenging decades of US global dominance, but is Beijing prepared to lead the world? Professor Steve Tsang, director of @soaspress.bsky.social joins @gavinesler.bsky.social to discuss China’s ambitions and what it means for the future of the global order. Listen now: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Charlie Kirk’s assassination has rocked US politics. Was he a provocateur or a generational voice? And what precedent does this killing set for democracy’s future? Charlotte McDonald-Gibson joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to ask what next for America? 🎙️ Listen on The Bunker: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

It’s going to be a busy week ….

⏰START YOUR WEEK⏰ Far right protestors caused chaos over the weekend – what do they mean for Britain and can Starmer rise to meet the moment? Plus, Trump is visiting – how will that go down? @gavinesler.bsky.social and @rostaylor.bsky.social discuss all this and more ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

From ancient battlefields to Silicon Valley boardrooms, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War still shapes how power is played. Today on The Bunker, @nndroid.bsky.social asks Jamie Q Roberts: is it timeless wisdom or just gussied up management BS? Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

@gavinesler.bsky.social and @irgarner.bsky.social discuss Putin’s growing tensions with Europe after NATO shot down Russian drones in Poland’s airspace. What does this mean for Putin and for the rest of Europe? Latest episode out now ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod A @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social collab.

Talked about flags on @bunkerpod.bsky.social with @alexvont.bsky.social, wondering if this is going to get me a) murdered by racists or b) cancelled

What’s going on with all these flags? Councils pulling them down, locals kicking off… Is it patriotism, politics, or just chaos? To get to the bottom of it we’ve paired up @alexvont.bsky.social and @jonnelledge.bsky.social to unpack the Flag Wars of 2025. Listen here ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Thanks for the insight @matthewholehouse.bsky.social into ReformUK’s weird conference

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Well, Reform UK's conference was... unusual? But, what did we actually learn? And did they say anything meaningful on policy? @matthewholehouse.bsky.social was there and talks @gavinesler.bsky.social through what happened ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

From Essex raves to being banned on Top of the Pops, how did The Prodigy storm the charts, spark tabloid meltdowns, and become every cool kid’s Halloween costume in 1996? Today, @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social to unpack the legacy of The Prodigy. Listen👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome

Rayner’s departure has left Labour in turmoil as Starmer looks to recalibrate. Will his changes work? Plus, Reform UK held its conference at the weekend – is there a way of stealing the spotlight back from them? @gavinesler.bsky.social & @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

From pub chatter to prime time: conspiracy theories are everywhere. But where’s the line between healthy scepticism and believing the Royals are lizards? Today, @alexvont.bsky.social & @drdanieljolley.bsky.social dig into why Britain fell for conspiracy thinking. 🎧 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🎨 Hitler had fake Roman temples. Stalin had portraits of proletarian heroism. And Trump has shitty pics of himself as Superman. NY Times columnist @jamellebouie.net talks to @nndroid.bsky.social about how garbage AI art became the vernacular of the new fascism. 🤖 Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Hitler has Speer’s kitsch giganticism. Trump’s got shitty six-fingered fantasy imagery cranked out on servers that drain your water supply. On #AISlop as the official art of the new authoritarians.

The far right loves AI slop because real art reaches deep into our humanity and they don't have any interest in those kinds of feelings.

The far-right loves uncanny AI generated content and it’s shaping the way we perceive politics. Today, @jamellebouie.net joins @nndroid.bsky.social to unpack the new authoritarian art style & what happens when reality can’t match fantasy. Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🙋🏼‍♀️ We want your questions for #ButYourEmails on today’s podcast! Check out this open post on Patreon for how to ask yours. 🙋🏽‍♂️ Deadline is 2pm today Weds 3 so hop to it… 🙋🏻 www.patreon.com/posts/138016...

Hey guess what? Maybe everything ISN’T doomed… if we learn a few lessons from history. New #OGWN for your ears.

1,280+ days into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine faces staggering losses and stalled peace. Even Trump’s Alaska talks haven’t moved the needle. @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social & @ozkaterji.bsky.social ask: where does the war stand now, and how is Ukraine enduring? 📲 Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

‼️ Snap out of it, Trump isn’t dead… that we know of. But what IS coming up this week? ‼️ Find out on #StartYourWeek as @alexvont.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social walk you through Starmer’s autumn re-reset, more flags’n’hotels… and a TV show you won’t want to miss 📲 Listen up linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🔊 The historical one in which @alexvont.bsky.social asks The @bunkerpod.bsky.social: “Are you really expecting me to say with a straight face, to one of the world’s foremost experts on Hitler, the words, ‘welcome to the bunker.’” 😆 🕰️ #Podcasts 📻

DIGITAL LOGJAM AVERTED

Today in The Bunker, Richard J. Evans joins @alexvont.bsky.social to explore the faces of the Third Reich and the workings of Hitler's inner circle – and ask what they reveal about modern authoritarian rule. Listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

He used to be “Robert Generic.” Now Robert Jenrick is smearing immigrants, cosplaying as Farage & eyeing the Tory leadership. Does he believe in anything he says? @roberthutton.co.uk joins @nndroid.bsky.social to dig into Jenrick’s barmy transformation Listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

In Russia, conspiracy theories aren’t fringe, they’re mainstream. From stolen lands to shadowy Western plots, wild myths are weaponised to fuel Putin's agenda. Dr Ilya Yablokov joins @alexvont.bsky.social to explain how the Kremlin turns conspiracy into power. Listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

⏰ #StartYourWeek is out – What’s coming in the rest of the week? More flags, boats and hotels, plus will the French govt. fall and which will be the next lucky US city to be occupied by Trump’s troops? ⏰ With @rostaylor.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social ⏰ Listen everywhere linktr.ee/bunker_pod

#StartYourWeek is on its way but in the meantime, please enjoy this belter of an interview with one of the most likeable MPs around.

🤘Val-MAGA?🤘 Trump likes to act like he's a great warrior, but how would he have fared in the age of Vikings? @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social asks Viking expert Dr. Keith Ruiter ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

My discussion of far right rhetoric for @bunkerpod.bsky.social

Interesting interview with Paul Mason With 31% avowedly supporting Reform, the rest of us need to work out how to dissuade them

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Jenrick’s hanging out with the far-right at the migrant hotel protests and Alison Pearson is hoping for a military coup. Why are the former law-and-order right so desperate for political violence to erupt? Our latest 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

I spoke to @mattpolprof.bsky.social about the lexicon of the far right and the creepy influencers who use these terms — know your enemy podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The language of the right is weird, but some of their lexicon has slipped into the mainstream. @dorianlynskey.bsky.social talks to @mattpolprof.bsky.social about the words and the warped worldview that the far right has smuggled into our politics ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

⬇️NEW EPISODE⬇️ In a special crossover edition from our partner podcast, @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social, @ozkaterji.bsky.social is joined by @keirgiles.bsky.social to discuss the fallout from Trump’s meetings with Putin, Zelenskyy and a host of European leaders ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

I just know this is going to come in handy…

“Britain’s at breaking point.” “Civil war is coming.” “Policing is two tier.” – If you’re sick of hearing the same old arguments every day on and offline, Paul Mason has the ideas you need to push back.

Got a friend or family member who’s become a little Reform-curious? Today on The Bunker, @paulmason.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to explore how to push back against a potential Reform supporter. Listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod