Top Stories!

We’re going back nearly a decade now to March 2014 - but this Top Story sounds eerily like it could be taking place in 2023. Crimea, Russia, and referendums that the international community refuses to recognise. It’s Bugle issue 263.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve been delving around in the Bugle archive for a while now - and in Bugle issue 30 in May 2008 Andy and John went even further back in time - to imagine the embryo that went on to become… me - as abortion was subject to political argument on both sides of the Atlantic.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Nov 2016 we were left reeling by the result of the US election. Hari Kondabolu and I tried to make sense of a world that had allowed President Trump to come into being. Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 In Nov 2013 both the British and US Government’s reached the halfway point of their administrations. Cue much naval gazing on both sides of the Atlantic. And of course Andy and John were also very happy to give our verdicts.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re going back now to May 2010 and a seismic shift in British politics. It was bye bye Labour and hello to… well, it was yet to be seen as we recorded issue 114 of The Bugle.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How innocent we were in April 2009 as we panicked over the swine flu pandemic. We joked about face masks and nervous coughs - if only we’d known… Here Andy is with John Oliver.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who could forget that monumental moment in recent British history… a natural disaster that rocked the nation… that’s right, we’re taking you back now to February 2008, and the aftermath of the Market Rasen Earthquake.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re heading to February 2019 now and I was joined by Al Murray and Mark Steel in the week Britain decided to go back to the polls - although maybe on the wrong thing.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some issues are never far from the front pages - and in August 2013 it was immigration policy making headlines for the gazillionth time - on both sides of the Atlantic.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In May 2010 for Bugle Issue 121 we dedicated the top spot to a group of suspected Russian spies - although their methods of espionage seemed a little lacklustre.Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.