Hot Take Time Machine – Spoilt pigs, hen-dos and ‘alpine divorce’ with Miranda Sawyer and Jonn Elledge

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Hot Take Time Machine is back and our crack squad of column critics are sniffing out the weirdest, worst and occasionally the best opinions from the last month. Paper Cuts survivors Miranda Sawyer and Jonn Elledge join Jacob Jarvis to pick apart The Telegraph’s terrible take on youth unemployment, The Mail’s Liz Jones having “one big moan” and one Times writer who is fed up with tasteful hen-dos – “bring back the strippers!” Buy Jonn’s book 31 Inventions that Built Our World from our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Spotted a column we should talk about next time? Send it to info@bunkercast.co.uk • Back us on Patreon – www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Producer: James Liddell. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.9	the compendium of columns, omnibus of opinions and party pack of platitudes that we call
1:05.8	Hot Take Time Machine.
1:07.4	In the spirit of the dear departed paper cuts, we thought we'd round up the worst,
1:11.5	weirdest, and occasionally best work by the columnists for the month. I'm Jacob Jarvis,
1:16.2	and here with me, I've got Talk 90s to Me podcast host Miranda. Hi, Miranda. Hello. And we also
1:21.7	have the author of a history of the world in 47 borders and the upcoming 31 inventions that
1:27.1	built our world. John LH. Hi, John. Hi. Are you on pre-order push? Absolutely. I edited that in. You can't, the listeners can't see the script, but the new book is highlighted in yellow, just to make sure it doesn't get missed out. Very firmly there. So, yeah, go pre-order 31 inventions that built our world right now. Only 31.
1:44.8	Only 31 were pointing out, though. Yeah. Going down. No, the page count is longer. Okay. The page count is significantly longer. There have been words, probably, my editor. It's been a point of contention. No, no, the opposite. It's like, I didn't shut up. Well, let's get into it then with, let's check in on the
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