Starmer's still PM (just)
The Bugle
The Bugle
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week's issue of the Bugle, Andy is joined by Alice Fraser and Josh Gondelman, as the three jump back into the news after a week off, as they discuss the UK's PM Kier Starmer grasping onto power, Trump's recent visit to China, and UK Navy wardrobe conundrum. All this plus more in issue 4379 of The Bugle!
🇬🇧 UK PM in trouble: The Bugle catch up on the recent news of Kier Starmer struggling to keep hold of power
🇺🇸 Trump and Xi catch up: The trio discuss the talks between US and China
🏠 Farage spends big: Andy, Alice and Josh report on the story of Reform Leader Nigel Farage buying a £1.5m house from a £5m Thai crypto-investor's donation
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Josh Gondelman's Links: https://www.joshgondelman.com/
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| 0:00.0 | The Buegel, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,379 of the bugle, the world's leading competitive |
| 0:20.0 | yo-yoing, an industrial fruit-canning industry crossover podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | Also recently voted the podcast most likely to misrepresent what it does as a show in the opening 15 seconds of an episode. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm Andy Zaltzman here in the shed of truth and distraction in Southland. |
| 0:34.7 | What's that on the window? Is it a spider? No, it's nothing. |
| 0:37.3 | And joining me today from all the currently available major hemispheres of the world. From the south and the east, it's Alice Fraser and from the north and the west, Josh Gondelman. Hello to both of you, and thanks for spanning the entire planet for me. You're very welcome, Andy. Hello, buglers. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you, Andy, for having us. And thank you for letting us have you surrounded. |
| 1:02.1 | How are you, Josh? |
| 1:12.3 | I'm well, thank you. Yeah, just, it's been nice weather here. So I've been taking my dog out, who she's a 20-pound pug, and she likes to fight all the other dogs in the neighborhood. So it keeps me sharp and keeps me off my phone. So I'm grateful to her for |
| 1:16.9 | that. And are other official rankings for the local, local dog fighting or is that just something |
| 1:22.3 | that you keep in your head? I would say my dog is near the bottom of the rankings and talent, but near the top of enthusiasm. |
| 1:30.8 | I can take you a long way. |
| 1:32.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.0 | She's kind of the rudy of dog fighting. |
| 1:39.1 | Alice, you're just back from Sydney. |
| 1:42.7 | Yes, I got back from Sydney this morning, which was a had a lot of fun at the Sydney Comedy Festival doing my Passion for Passion show. |
| 1:50.6 | And then I'm about to begin the long-planned Pinser movement of Josh and I coming in to London on the 8th of June and then doing a bunch of shows before Edinburgh in London and the |
| 2:02.0 | rest of the UK. So I'm going to move my tactical. I'm going to do my tactical part of this |
| 2:06.8 | aggressive incursion, recolonisation, I'm calling it, as long as Josh, keep telling me you're |
| 2:13.5 | right behind me with your angry dog. Don't leave me hang in, bro. |
| 2:20.0 | I don't think I can take all the Brits on my own. |
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