Wild, wild Wes – Weekly Wrap-up with Rafael Behr

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Early release as the news is moving fast… Keir Starmer’s wild week is feeling more and more disastrous. As the PM clings on to power (by the time you hear this, that may have changed), who’s waiting in the wings? Wes Streeting resigned right after we recorded the episode, so who knows what’s next… Plus, Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet for Donald Trump in Beijing – but what does each man want and will either walk away the winner? Rafael Behr joins Jacob Jarvis to break down the biggest stories of the week. • Back us on Patreon – www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis. Producer: James Liddell. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. 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	Some follow the noise.
0:03.0	Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion
0:07.7	dollar swings.
0:09.0	There's a money side to every story.
0:11.4	Get the money side of the story.
0:13.5	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:25.8	Hello and welcome back to the weekly wrap-up from The Bunker.
0:27.0	I'm Jacob Jarvis.
0:33.1	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,
0:37.6	oh god, what now?
0:38.9	Before we begin, we do have some news for all of you.
0:41.6	Podmasters, the company that brings you the bunker, has just turned 10 years old.
0:45.5	So to celebrate, we are offering everyone an extra 10% off of a year's support on Patreon,
0:51.3	where you get episodes ad-free and early.
0:53.7	Follow the link in the show notes
0:54.9	to find out more or search Bunker Patreon podcast. On to the show today, I am joined by Raph Baer. Hi,
1:01.3	Raff. Hi, Raff, there's plenty of news we're going to be getting into. I'm sure people can
1:05.9	guess what we'll be talking about. But first up, what is the strangest story that you've seen this week?
1:11.6	Well, the thing that caught my eye was a story about a tooth that was found in Siberia
1:19.2	that is estimated to be around 60,000 years old and belonged to a Neanderthal and shows evidence of dentistry having been applied to it.
1:30.0	There is a hole in it that looks like it was precise enough that it must have been made by some
1:34.9	stone tool of some kind. So Neanderthals were drilling into each other's teeth. We presume for
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