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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Mandelson gone, Starmer or McSweeney next? – Weekly Wrap-up with Zoë Grünewald and Jacob Jarvis

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Wrapping up the stories of the week… With Peter Mandelson quitting the Lords after more damning info emerged from the Epstein files, will this lead to Starmer’s demise? Zoë Grünewald and Jacob Jarvis discuss this and more as they round up the biggest stories from the past week. • Head to nakedwines.co.uk/thebunker to get 6 top-rated wines from our sponsor Naked Wines for £39.99, delivery included. www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bunkerpod.bsky.social  • 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 Jacob Jarvis with Zoë Grünewald. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Simon Williams. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Design by James Parrett. 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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0:00.0

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started today at Vantor.com. Hello and welcome back to the weekly wrap-up from the bunker. I'm Jacob Jarvis. Every Friday,

0:46.7

we recap the biggest stories, the weirdest tales and the news that went under the radar from the past

0:51.2

seven days with some of your favourite bunker people and some

0:54.2

crossovers from the parallel universe that is oh god what now today i'm joined by the leads westminster

0:59.6

editor zoe grunewald hi zoe hello zoe what is the what's the strangest story you've seen this week let's

1:05.5

start fun well this is strange because this is great news for Barnsley, which is my hometown.

1:11.6

Yes, it's rare, it's rare.

1:13.5

Basically, and this was completely buried, as you can imagine in the news this week,

1:16.7

but Barnsley is set to become Britain's first tech town, which essentially means,

1:22.0

and this was announced by the technology minister, that they'll be using artificial intelligence

1:27.0

to tackle all of Barnsley's sort of localized problems.

1:30.3

So things like potholes and hospital wait-on-list.

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