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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Assassination Nation – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Podmasters

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing.  Setting up the events of the next seven days… Another day, another assassination attempt. Will the attack on Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner overshadow King Charles’s visit to the US? Will the gun attack change anything apart from making conspiracy nutters crazier? And what were journos doing at an event to celebrate a man who hates them and says they’re enemies of the people? Plus: It’s Groundhog Day all over again as Labour agonises over Starmer’s leadership. Morgan McSweeney to be seen in public at last. And it’s Forest vs Villa in a Europa League semi-final that’s straight from 1979! Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison read the runes for the week ahead. • Don’t miss the Oh God, What Now? vs Origin Story Patreons’ Podclash this Thursday 30 April.  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Simon Williams. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Hello and welcome to start your week from The Bunker, in which we attempt to give you a heads up on the major news stories of the next seven days.

0:45.8

No guarantees, though, we do not have a crystal ball. I'm Andrew Harrison, and the bunting is still out for Podmasters 10, our celebration of 10 years of the company that brings you

0:54.6

the bunker, oh god what now, and all your favourite podcasts. We hope you enjoyed the return of Big

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mouth at the weekend, and we've still got the Oh God, What Now versus Origin Story live

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and you can get an extra 10% of annual support. That's 20% in total. We are giving it away and we've got more birthday stuff coming up. But enough birthday excitement here to help us with the upcoming stories. It's Ross Taylor. Good morning, Ross. Beautiful sunny weekend for a change. Yeah, good morning, Andrew. So the British government had hoped that the

1:28.6

start of the week will be dominated by King Charles's visit to the United States. We were all crossing

1:33.1

our fingers that Trump's weakness for royalty and old world class would take some of the post-Iran

1:38.5

poison out of the once special relationship. But instead, it's another assassination attempt on the

1:44.0

president that fills

1:44.8

the front pages and sucks up all the oxygen. A 31-year-old man from Torres, California, appears

1:50.1

to have rushed into the White House correspondence dinner at the Washington Hilton, the same hotel

1:54.3

where Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. Guests hid under the tables as Secret Service agents rushed

1:59.3

the president and Melania Trump out of the room and subdued the man. Trump later described the hotel as not a particularly secure building and said it proved why the White House needs his monolithic ballroom. This is why we have to have all the attributes of what we're planning in the White House, he said. It's actually a larger room and it's much more secure. Ross, I mean, the bizarre thing about this is how routine it feels.

2:19.2

Another day, another attempt on Trump's life.

2:22.0

Have we become so deadened by what's gone on in the second Trump administration?

2:26.2

Nothing really stuns us anymore?

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