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Stuck In The Middle East With You – Weekly Wrap-Up with Jonn Elledge

Rounding up the stories of the last seven days… Trump shatters international law, triggers a conflagration across the Middle East and insults Keir Starmer into the bargain. Also: Shabana Mahmood doubles down on immigration harshness after the Gorton & Denton disaster. The Fall of ... Show more

. 33min 24sec

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Stuck In The Middle East With You – Weekly Wrap-Up with Jonn Elledge

. 33min 24sec

Elon Musk's A.I. gamble – Could it destroy him?

Elon Musk is betting big on artificial intelligence. But is this a visionary leap forward, or a high-stakes gamble? His latest move is to merge SpaceX with his A.I. lab xAI, consolidating his companies’ finances and laying the groundwork for something even more ambitious: satelli ... Show more

. 27min 20sec

Reform’s “British ICE” — Why it would never work

Last week Zia Yusuf, floated a headline-grabbing idea: a British version of America’s deeply unpopular ICE. Today on The Bunker, Zoë Grünewald speaks to Sunder Katwala, director of British Future and author of How to be a Patriot, to unpack what a “British ICE” would actually mea ... Show more

. 30min 26sec

Will Trump turn America’s 250th birthday into a MAGA-fest?

Is Trump using America’s 250th anniversary to rebrand the USA in his own gaudy, aggressive, white nationalist image? There’ll be a “Patriot Games” high school athletics tournament, quickly dubbed America’s Hunger Games. Commemorative quarter coins have been scrubbed of any “woke” ... Show more

. 34min 36sec

Trump, Iran and a world on the brink – Start Your Week with Rafael Behr

Trump’s attacks on Iran have thrown the Middle East into chaos and left the world on the brink of what feels like an existential crisis. What is he doing and why now? And how will this situation develop and worsen in the coming days? Rafael Behr joins Jacob Jarvis to discuss this ... Show more

. 34min 0sec