Best Taylor Behringer Podcasts (2025)

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Trump’s AI dirty bombing, frog resistance and roundabout painters – The 20 Weirdest Moments of 2025 – Part 2 43:37

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The summer of Flagmania? Donald Trump’s “FIFA Peace Prize” AKA the “At Least You Tried” Award? Albania’s AI Cabinet minister? Ed Miliband, Nuclear ASMR star? The events of 2025 have defied comprehension… but which were the strangest? Regulars Gavin Esler, Alex von Tunzelmann and Jason Hazeley reconvene to complete our run-down of the most jaw-dropp…

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The Oh God, What Now? Politics Awards 2025 1:00:26

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Who and what will receive our FIFA Peace Prize-style gongs for the year? Elon Musk for his brief, mayfly political life of casual mass murder? Trump and Vance for their disgusting Oval Office attack on Zelenskyy? Liz Truss, madwoman for hire? Oasis? Prince Andrew? Stephen f**king Miller? All these and more feature in our heated debate about the def…

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Liz Truss unleashed, Your Party and demolishing the White House – The 20 Weirdest Moments of 2025 – Part 1 41:52

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From Trump remodelling the White House along the fake gold New Jersey steakhouse aesthetic to the shambolic launch of Your Party (splitting the party before there’s a party to split?) 2025 has set new standards in bafflement. But which are the supreme moments of weirdness? Regulars Gavin Esler, Alex von Tunzelmann and Jason Hazeley set out the most…

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2025: The Year of Tragical Thinking – End of Year Special 1:02:54

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Thank God that’s nearly over… It’s been a grim old year in politics, so in the penultimate OGWN of 2025 our panel pores over the entrails of the year to seek reasons for optimism in 2026. Plus in a But Your Emails Special we answer as many of your questions as we can squeeze in. And if that’s not enough, we suggest Christmas presents for major poli…

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The Bondi massacre and the future of terror – Weekly wrap-up with Alex von Tunzelmann and Jonn Elledge 28:31

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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…

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Eastern Medicine – China’s plan to control the future of drugs 24:27

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Not long ago, China’s pandemic response was met with deep scepticism in the West. But fast-forward just a few years, and the picture looks very different. China’s bio-pharma industry is now booming, racing from low-cost manufacturing hub to serious contender in the global battle to create the next blockbuster drugs. China is rolling out vast new ph…

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From outrage to influence – Inside Tommy Robinson’s far right playbook 34:11

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For more than a decade, Tommy Robinson has been written off again and again. Yet he keeps re-emerging, reshaped for the moment. From street agitator to convicted criminal to most recently, self-styled Christian crusader. Robinson has followed a familiar far-right playbook: collapse, reinvention, repeat. On The Bunker, Alex von Tunzelmann is joined …

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Crisis Management – How we got 25 years of British political chaos 37:00

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From 9/11 and the wars that followed to the expenses scandal, the Financial Crash, austerity, Brexit and a carousel of leadership crises, Westminster has spent the last 25 years governing through upheaval. Since 2000, crisis has shifted from disruption to default setting, with governments reacting rather than governing and institutions stretched we…

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Westminster Village Idiots? – Parliament in 2025 with John Crace of The Guardian 59:40

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As 2025 spirals around the plughole of posterity, The Guardian’s parliamentary speechwriter John Crace joins us to look at the year inside the Westminster Village. Did Farage successfully cross over from consequence-free rabble-rouser to horribly plausible Prime Minister? Will the growing racism allegations halt his ambitions? Is there more going o…

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Horror on Bondi Beach – Start Your Week with Alex von Tunzelmann 30:49

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The stories that will shape the week ahead: How will the atrocity at Bondi Beach reverberate in a world where antisemitic violence is rising? Plus: the shocking murder of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife. Junior doctors decide whether to strike as Britain hits peak winter flu. Will Phase Two of the Gaza peace talks stay on the rails? And …

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Trump to Europe: “Drop Dead” 1:01:11

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America’s new National Security Strategy is a hellish concoction of far-right obsessions, paranoid conspiracy thought, imperial fantasy, and outright aggression. European leaders are horrified but what are they going to do about it? Plus: Glasgow South MP Gordon McKee explains the UK’s debt to GDP ratio using towers of custard creams and bourbons. …

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Starmer vs human rights, Trump vs The World – Weekly wrap-up with Alex von Tunzelmann and Natasha Devon 32:45

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Wrapping up the stories of the week… Alex von Tunzelmann is joined by LBC host Natasha Devon to break down Keir Starmer’s latest approach to tackling the migration crisis. Across the pond, we take a look at Trump’s ongoing campaign against the EU and ask”why now”? Plus, Natasha shares her view on the proposed ban on social media for under-18s, we r…

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The original Trump? How Charles Fox invented personality politics 30:47

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Personality politics isn’t just a modern problem – it started centuries earlier with an aristocrat called Charles James Fox. You can trace the roots of modern political celebrity back to this 18th-century provocateur, whose charm, scandals and theatrics helped redefine what leadership looked like. Fox built a movement around himself rather than his…

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“The most serious crisis Farage has faced” – Michael Crick on the racism allegations 33:32

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Nigel Farage continues to react furiously to growing allegations that he engaged in racist and antisemitic bullying when he was a pupil at Dulwich College in the late ’70s and early ’80s. But are his angry response and his attempts at diversion doing the real damage? And can you really judge an adult on what they may have done at school? Long-time …

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The relationship recession – Why are so many people going it alone? 26:25

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Far fewer people are getting into relationships than they were in the past, with a major rise in the amount of single people across the world. Why are we seeing this so-called “relationship recession”? And how can it impact us all? Jonathan Rosenthal, international editor at The Economist, wrote about this for a magazine cover story recently and jo…

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Lost in the Far-Right Funhouse – How bots and fakes create a false, angry Britain 1:06:26

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Social media’s sewer pipe of white nationalism, conspiracy thought and violent far-right incitement is seeping into mainstream politics. But where is all this extremism coming from? Who’s creating it? Is anyone on political social media not a bot? And what are we going to do about it? Special guest Olivia Brown from the University of Bath explains …

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The Plot to Trumpify the World – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor 34:29

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Setting out the stories of the next seven days. An astonishing new US National Security Strategy says Trump plans to support far-right parties across Europe and makes the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory into official US policy. Having ruined America, does the President want to Trumpify the planet? Plus, the colossal scale of COVID wast…

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 Putin plays Trump again! — Weekly wrap-up with Rafael Behr and Jacob Jarvis 40:12

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Wrapping up the stories of the week… Jacob Jarvis is joined by Rafael Behr to break down the stalled US–Russia peace talks, Putin’s strong-arming, and what Trump’s shaky negotiating team tells us about the state of American power. Back in Westminster, they dig into the fallout from the OBR’s budget leak and what it all means for Labour’s economic c…

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In-Fight Club – Your Party flames out 1:08:31

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What went wrong with “Your Party”? As absolutely nobody could have predicted, the new Left vehicle’s first conference collapses amid factional squabbles. Zarah Sultana gets to rule over the ruins but will all that new energy on the left now head over to Zack Polanski’s Greens? Plus: After a budget that pleased nobody, is Labour really taking young …

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What is The OBR anyway? – Understanding Britain’s under fire fiscal watchdog 28:32

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The Office for Budget Responsibility is supposed to be the calm, quiet body that keeps watch over Britain’s public finances. But after it accidentally released its Budget analysis before Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her statement, its chair Richard Hughes resigned and the watchdog suddenly became the lead story. Today on The Bunker, Seth Thév…

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Anti-Christ Superstar — What’s the deal with Peter Thiel? 35:42

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He’s a nightmare made flesh for progressives and liberals: an anti-woke, hyper-libertarian tech billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance, supports Curtis Yarvin’s anti-democracy “Dark Enlightenment” movement, and seems to base his worldview on the worst parts of Lord Of The Rings. But lately Peter Thiel has been getting even weirder, warning of the rise…

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Middle Rage – Inside the radicalisation of Britain’s 40-somethings 31:06

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We usually think radicalisation is something that happens to young people. Teenagers doomscrolling in dark bedrooms, or twenty-somethings disappearing into algorithmic rabbit holes. But look around, and the picture feels very different. The loudest voices in the culture wars, the Facebook fire-starters, the men who seem permanently furious in comme…

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Can we get Britain out of its hole? 1:06:30

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Britain is in trouble. Stagnating wages, collapsing public services and a feeble economy are turning politics angry and rancorous. Keir Starmer says Labour’s economic plan will take “years” to deliver – but does the party really have a long-term plan? And what would one look like? Our guest John Springford, associate fellow at the Centre for Europe…

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War, Tax, Rage-Bait and the Christmas Number One – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor 26:39

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It’s December, so come open this week’s Advent Calendar of misery with Ros Taylor and Gavin Esler. Is the Mail/Telegraph frenzy over Rachel Reeves allegedly misleading the Commons over Britain’s finances just a mountain out of a molehill? How is the Budget fallout settling? Does David Lammy really want to bring trial by jury to an end for all but t…

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The Budget, Trump's Russia love-in and more! – Weekly Wrap-Up with Seth Thévoz and Jacob Jarvis 28:14

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Wrapping up the stories of the week… Jacob Jarvis and Seth Thévoz dig into the media’s reaction to Rachel Reeves’s budget and what it really tells us about the state of Labour. We break down the latest twist in the Trump/Russia saga after the collapse of the so-called “peace plan”, and look at The Guardian’s continuing coverage of Nigel Farage’s ra…

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Big Budget Breakdown – Wage Against the Machine 1:03:17

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Behind all the predictable shrieking about “tax raids”, what really happened in Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed misery Budget? And what’s behind Labour’s fear of making bolder moves? Plus, Private Eye’s Daily Mailograph gag comes true – it looks like the Mail is going to buy the Telegraph. Our special guest, Radio 4 Now Show veteran and musical satiri…

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Loser takes it all? – How Trump's plan for Ukraine fell apart, with Luke Harding of The Guardian 31:51

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The US-Russia “peace plan” isn’t happening. Days after the 28-point proposal leaked, it collapsed spectacularly amid accusations that it amounted to a surrender to Putin. Is there anything left in the “amended” version? And who really wrote the proposals? Luke Harding, foreign correspondent for The Guardian and author of Invasion explains why the p…

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The Epstein files: What's going to be inside them? – with investigative journalist Vicky Ward 38:07

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Anticipation is building around the imminent release of the “Epstein files.” With Donald Trump finally signing off, the Justice Department is expected to publish long-sealed documents on the disgraced financier, and the public is bracing for answers. But what should we actually expect? Today in The Bunker, Seth Thévoz talks to journalist and author…

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The Cosmic Absurd – How The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy nearly explains our world 30:00

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A pocket-sized device that contains all knowledge in the universe? Which makes your life better, and not a hellscape of political rancour and surveillance capitalism? Come off it! Never happen. But that’s exactly what Douglas Adams imagined as the titular device in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, the cosmic road novel that changed the minds …

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Trump’s AI dirty bombing, frog resistance and roundabout painters – The 20 Weirdest Moments of 2025 – Part 2 43:37

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The Oh God, What Now? Politics Awards 2025 1:00:26

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Liz Truss unleashed, Your Party and demolishing the White House – The 20 Weirdest Moments of 2025 – Part 1 41:52

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2025: The Year of Tragical Thinking – End of Year Special 1:02:54

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The Bondi massacre and the future of terror – Weekly wrap-up with Alex von Tunzelmann and Jonn Elledge 28:31

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Eastern Medicine – China’s plan to control the future of drugs 24:27

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From outrage to influence – Inside Tommy Robinson’s far right playbook 34:11

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Crisis Management – How we got 25 years of British political chaos 37:00

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Westminster Village Idiots? – Parliament in 2025 with John Crace of The Guardian 59:40

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Horror on Bondi Beach – Start Your Week with Alex von Tunzelmann 30:49

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Trump to Europe: “Drop Dead” 1:01:11

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Starmer vs human rights, Trump vs The World – Weekly wrap-up with Alex von Tunzelmann and Natasha Devon 32:45

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The original Trump? How Charles Fox invented personality politics 30:47

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“The most serious crisis Farage has faced” – Michael Crick on the racism allegations 33:32

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The relationship recession – Why are so many people going it alone? 26:25

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Lost in the Far-Right Funhouse – How bots and fakes create a false, angry Britain 1:06:26

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The Plot to Trumpify the World – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor 34:29

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 Putin plays Trump again! — Weekly wrap-up with Rafael Behr and Jacob Jarvis 40:12

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In-Fight Club – Your Party flames out 1:08:31

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What is The OBR anyway? – Understanding Britain’s under fire fiscal watchdog 28:32

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Anti-Christ Superstar — What’s the deal with Peter Thiel? 35:42

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Middle Rage – Inside the radicalisation of Britain’s 40-somethings 31:06

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Can we get Britain out of its hole? 1:06:30

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War, Tax, Rage-Bait and the Christmas Number One – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor 26:39

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The Budget, Trump's Russia love-in and more! – Weekly Wrap-Up with Seth Thévoz and Jacob Jarvis 28:14

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Big Budget Breakdown – Wage Against the Machine 1:03:17

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Loser takes it all? – How Trump's plan for Ukraine fell apart, with Luke Harding of The Guardian 31:51

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The Epstein files: What's going to be inside them? – with investigative journalist Vicky Ward 38:07

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The Cosmic Absurd – How The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy nearly explains our world 30:00