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Hello, Buglers.

I am Andy Zaltzman.

This is Bugle issue 4378, sub-episode A, for at this very moment, the UK might be about to ditch yet another prime minister as it continues its headlong pursuit of full national failure, but we'll be back with a full episode next week to try to make sense of it all.

For this week's sub-episode, we have some choice satirical ramblings and rumblings saved up from the last few weeks.

In our first bonus clip,

Hewn from the last few days of the little-missed month of April 2026, I was joined by Nish Kumar and Alice Fraser, and we discussed the White House Correspondents' Dinner that thankfully did not end up how it might have ended up.

Another attendee at the dinner was UFC President Dana White.

Wrestling, as God intended, in an oxygen.

Oxygen?

Hexagon?

I can't remember.

Oxygen, isn't it?

Yeah.