Harsh Realities in Munich – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Setting up the stories of the week ahead… At the Munich Security Conference, Yvette Cooper calls out Russia for the murder of Alexei Navalny but what is Britain going to do about it? And what’s behind Marco Rubio’s apparently conciliatory tone? Plus Britain rushes forward a social media ban for teenagers, John Healey is this week’s next Keir Starmer… and are you ready for the Chinese Year of the Fire Horse? Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison guide you through the next seven days. • Hear more on Britain’s preparations to deter war with Russia on the next edition of Oh God, What Now? • Pic: Keir Starmer, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Defence Secretary John Healey during the 62nd Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2026 in Munich, Germany. (Getty) www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: Liam Tait. 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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1:40.9	Hello and welcome to start your week from the bunker, your guide to the stories that may well shape the seven days ahead. We're not going to guarantee anything we can't predict, but we'll do our best. I'm Andrew Harrison, and here to talk us through the week ahead is presenter of her God what now and more jam tomorrow. And the author of The Future of Trust, Ros Taylor. Good morning, Ross. How are you today? Hello, Andrew. Top of the morning. There's some blue sky in the distance. That's what I like to hear, optimism. You may like the fact that when I was putting this script together, autocorrect, changed your book to you, The Future of Trust. Yeah, lots of people do. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, everyone knows the future of trust, so that would have been a pretty poor book to write.
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