WFH Hypocrisy & Bondi's Binder - A Disgraceful Display
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte dive headfirst into the political absurdity of the past seven days and honestly? You couldn’t script it.
First up: the US Congress hearing that left jaws on the floor. Attorney General Pam Bondi arrived armed with a massive binder and a promise of transparency and delivered… evasions. With Epstein survivors present in the room, the exchanges were tense, emotional, and deeply uncomfortable. The Trawl ladies unpack.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to generate headlines for all the wrong reasons from tariff confusion to podium moments that raise more eyebrows than answers. Is this strategy, chaos, or something else entirely?
Back home, Reform UK has decided that working from home is apparently the enemy of civilisation. Marina and Jemma look at the party’s push against remote working, the glaring inconsistencies, and why critics say the policy raises more questions than it answers.
Plus: Jewish activists heckle Nigel Farage, Melanie Stansbury refuses to mince her words, and The Marsh Family deliver the pudding.
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| 0:00.0 | And the United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States. |
| 0:10.9 | And Donald Trump is right at the center of it. Hello and welcome to The Trawl, your weekly companion through the skipfire of news and politics. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Marina Birkus. And I'm Gemma Forte and here is the news with Harvey Hawks. |
| 0:37.7 | Good evening. On today's news, everything is shit. We cross now to the weather. |
| 0:42.6 | It's shit. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:45.2 | We now take a look at the local news in your area. |
| 0:48.8 | Everything is shit, but this time closer to your house. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. |
| 0:54.1 | I'm telling you now, Marina Perkis, if they bring in a hose pipe ban in the summer, I'll be |
| 0:58.7 | peeved. I will be peeved. They will do. It's a rinse and repeat on that. You just know it. |
| 1:04.6 | Meanwhile, we keep shedding out for those water companies. We're doing such a great job. Such a great job. |
| 1:10.0 | Right. Let's move on with some good news, |
| 1:12.6 | because there is some good news and it was reported in the Financial Times. UK to ban political |
| 1:19.8 | party donations from foreign owned companies. |
| 1:24.2 | Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. companies. Yeah, we will take that. |
| 1:34.9 | Now, now do foreign individuals, ban those, then cap domestic donors, then ban |
| 1:40.7 | government contracts and peerages for donors. |
| 1:43.6 | And do you know what, we're about halfway |
| 1:45.0 | there. And that's not the only uplifting thing to come out of our politics this week. |
| 1:49.4 | This clip had me giggling. So what you'll hear is a little snippet from PMQs where independent MP, |
| 1:56.8 | Obe Khan, I hope that's how you say it, stands up and says this. Now bear in mind, when he |
| 2:02.6 | stands up, sat immediately in front of him and beneath him are Nigel Farage, Richard |
| 2:09.1 | Tice and Sarah Pochin. Rubbish is building up right beneath my very nose. It's becoming. |
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