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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

The King and lies – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Podmasters

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing for The Bunker.  King Charles’ US state visit has gone well so far — but what does it really mean for the UK’s increasingly strained “special relationship” ? Plus: we discuss the horrific attack in Golders Green, Keir Starmer dodges a parliamentary enquiry into the Peter Mandelson appointment, and finally, the end of hereditary peers. Jacob Jarvis is joined by Rafael Behr to unpack the biggest stories from the past week. www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis with Rafael Behr.  Producer: Kathleen Johnston and Jake Preston. 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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0:00.0

It's happy birth data podmasters this month.

0:02.7

The home of Oh God What Now, the bunker, American Friction, and all your favorite podcasts is 10 years old.

0:08.8

And to celebrate, we're offering an extra 10% off a year's support on Patreon.

0:13.3

Just follow the link in the show notes and help us keep going for another 10 years.

0:31.6

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

0:32.9

I'm Jacob Jarvis.

0:44.8

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 and maybe even some panellists from, oh god, what now.

0:47.8

Before we begin, we do have some news at the moment.

0:52.9

So Podmasters, the company that brings you the bunker, has recently turned 10 years old.

0:59.0

So to celebrate, we are offering everyone an extra 10% off of a year's support on Patreon. Follow the link in the show notes to find out more. On to the show, today I am joined by Guardian leader writer and columnist Raff Bear.

1:07.0

Hi, Raph.

1:08.0

Hi there.

1:09.0

So first, let's get straight into some news and discuss the horrific attack in Golders Green

1:15.6

in London where two Jewish men were stabbed.

1:18.6

A suspect has been arrested, so we do have to be somewhat careful in what we can discuss around this.

1:24.6

But I saw a headline which read Ministers under pressure to act on

1:29.6

anti-Semitism. And unfortunately, that feels like a headline which could have been written

1:35.9

multiple times of late. The government says it's a focus, but does it still feel like it's not

1:42.8

enough of a priority? It's an interesting one, isn does it still feel like it's not enough of a priority?

1:46.6

It's an interesting one, isn't it?

1:53.3

Because I'm pretty confident that government would want to do as much as it can to stop anti-Semitic attacks, that that's a failure that it would be perverse to have any other

1:58.0

ambition.

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