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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Starmer finds Farage's Crypto-nite – Weekly Wrap-Up with Seth Thévoz

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The government is placing new limits on crypto and overseas donations — but is this about national security or is Starmer just worried about Farage’s fundraising power? Plus: Boris Johnson dubs himself the “Napoleon of Notting Hill”, and Trump’s 15-point peace plan falls flat. Jacob Jarvis is joined by Seth Thévoz to round up the biggest stories from the past week.  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by: Jacob Jarvis with Seth Thévoz. Producer: Liam Tait and Kathleen Johnston. Production Assistant: Jake Preston. Audio production: Tom Taylor. 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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0:00.0

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0:26.1

Hello and welcome back to the weekly wrap-up from The Bunker.

0:27.3

I'm Jacob Jarvis.

0:32.0

Every Friday we recap the biggest stories, the weirdest stories and the news that has gone under the radar over the last week with some of your favourite bunker personalities

0:36.0

and maybe even some panellists from

0:38.0

Oh God What Now. Today we're joined by journalist, author of London Clubland and Oh God What Now favourite,

0:43.4

Seth Tevo. Hey, Seth.

0:44.8

Hello, hello. Seth, what's the, what's the strangest story you've seen this week?

0:49.2

There was a very odd interview that Boris Johnson gave for a podcast.

0:56.2

It's called the smokeless word.

0:59.5

And it's actually run paradoxically by British American tobacco.

1:04.2

It's all about how they're trying to pivot to vapes and, you know, non-traditional tobacco products.

1:07.9

And what just made it so weird was the general tone.

1:14.4

It was very self-pitying, you know, I was misjudged. Everyone was unfair to me the whole time.

1:21.5

He only seemed to have been really happy either as a schoolboy or as mayor of London when he said he was the Napoleon of Notting Hill.

1:27.4

Do he sound a little bit, he sounds almost like he's doing a bit of a Liz Trust thing there of suggesting that everyone was out to get him.

1:33.7

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because people used to, by and large, be quite graceful when they gave up power.

1:40.5

You know, you look at John Major, he's done the lecture circuit, you look at Gordon Brown, he's gone on to do think tanks and reports.

1:46.0

There's this thing on the right you find amongst Boris Johnson, amongst David Cameron,

1:52.3

sort of standing awkwardly on a campsite, trying to sell insurance. You find it with Liz Truss,

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