From Trump to Reform – Inside the right wing’s war on free speech

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Political leaders are rewriting the rules of public debate and the media is in the firing line. This week, Jimmy Kimmel was briefly suspended after making seemingly innocuous remarks following Charlie Kirk’s death, only to be swiftly reinstated. Meanwhile, Donald Trump isn’t just undermining the press: he’s destabilising the very institutions and principles of journalism in the process. Today on The Bunker, Alex von Tunzelmann speaks to Dr Ayala Panievsky, author of The New Censorship, about how the war on the media became one of the defining battles of our age. • We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to https://indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bunkerpod.bsky.social Buy Ayala’s book New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll be helping the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Advertisers! Want to reach smart, engaged, influential people with money to spend? (Yes, they do exist). Some 3.5 MILLION people download and watch our podcasts every month – and they love our shows. Why not get YOUR brand in front of our influential listeners with podcast advertising? Contact ads@podmasters.co.uk to find out more Written and presented by Alex von Tunzelmann. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editors: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:45.6	Welcome back to The Bunker, News Without the Nonsense. Five days a week, I'm Alex von Tunselman.
1:52.4	Now, are we living in an era of new censorship? Don't worry, I'm not about to try and persuade you that you're being unfairly prevented from being unbelievably rude in public by woke millennials.
1:57.7	What the journalist and academic Aeala Panevsky means by censorship in her new book
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