The Bondi massacre and the future of terror – Weekly wrap-up with Alex von Tunzelmann and Jonn Elledge

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Wrapping up the stories of the week… Alex von Tunzelmann is joined by Jonn Elledge to examine the global response to the antisemitic Bondi Beach shooting and ask whether it signals a wider rise in the threat of terror attacks. Plus, how will resident doctor strikes affect the NHS as the flu wave intensifies? Jonn tries to work out if the unexpected drop in inflation is good or bad news for Rachel Reeves and crowns his winner and loser of the week. 🎄LAST DAY! Get 20% off a year’s support for The Bunker until midnight on Fri 19 Dec – whether you’re a new backer, renewing or upgrading. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex von Tunzelmann. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio production: 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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0:22.4	It will take a society to beat dementia, and we can't do it without you.
0:27.6	Search Alzheimer's Society and donate today. Hello and welcome back to the weekly wrap-up from the bunker. I'm Alex von Tunselman.
0:46.4	Every Friday we recap the biggest stories, the weirdest stories and the news that's gone
0:50.9	under the radar over the last week with some of your favourite bunker personalities and maybe even some panellists from oh god what now and this week i'm joined by
0:59.0	journalists and author of the bestselling a history of the world in 47 borders which i'm
1:03.3	told is a perfect stocking stuffer for absolutely every member of your extended family it's john
1:08.3	ellage hello who's putting books in stockings books don don't go into stockings. Books go under the tree. You can fit one book in a stocking, but pretty much nothing else. Yeah, but then you have no space for your chocolate mouse, you have no space for your Satsuma, you have no space for the rubber ducks that your mother somehow got it into a head you were really into 15 years ago. You've never had the hard to tell her.
1:28.7	It's like, you've seen my stockings.
1:32.3	Well, anyway, let's get into the news.
1:34.9	John, let's start with the strangest story of the week.
1:38.0	What's the strangest story you've seen this week?
1:41.4	So listeners may be shocked to learn.
1:43.9	There has been a scandal at the World Pie
1:46.9	Eating Championships in Wigan. What? This is, this is from our very good friends at the Daily
1:52.6	Star. Tony Callaghan, who is the owner of Harry's Bar, which hosts the globally renowned
1:59.0	competition, and is definitely not just seeking publicity
2:02.5	for the aforementioned Harry's Bar, has told the paper that he's ordered increased surveillance
2:07.2	because he was told that one competitor was planning to cheat by smuggling in a funnel under a
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