Preppers have long been planning for the worst-case scenario. Are governments now doing the same?  

The UK government has launched a national “Be Ready” campaign, urging people to keep enough food, water and medicine at home to prepare for three days of disruption.

Other European countries have similar policies. But for preppers, whose mission it is to ready themselves for a future disaster, this is old news. Have the preppers been vindicated? And what exactly are we prepping for?

Tristan Redman speaks to Lucy Easthope about her role as a disaster planning expert and Gabriel Gatehouse joins us in the studio to talk about what he’s learnt from interviewing British preppers.

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Timecodes:
0:00 – Introduction to episode
0:44 – Lucy Easthope explains Nick Bostrom’s Vulnerable World Hypothesis
2:22 – What is a disaster planner?
3:11 – What are the most likely threats to civilisation today in Northern Europe and the US?
5:11 – What exactly are the UK government advising people to do?
7:05 – Why is the UK acting right now?
9:10 – Is the government doing anything to help us?
12:45 – Gabriel Gatehouse chats to Tristan in the studio
13:12 – What is a prepper?
14:57 – What are the tech CEO’s doing to prepare?
20:03 – What can the everyday person do to prepare for a possible coming storm?

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An attack in Krakow’s Main Market Square on Saturday has left six people dead.

Police said a 25-year-old man drove into the square “before beginning to fire at random people from his car”.

Poland’s Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the suspect is a Polish national.

He added that it looks like he held “very radical views” and that everything indicates he was inspired by “far-right ideologies”.

One of the six people killed in the attack has been identified as a British national.

The head of Poland’s police force, Marek Boroń, says 16 more people were injured, including two police officers, five foreign nationals and the suspect.

Krakow is also holding two days of mourning, with businesses in the city closed today after the attack.

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At least five people have been killed and about a dozen injured in a shooting in Krakow’s Main Market Square, local police have said.

Details of the number of victims and injuries are still being established, the official account for the city of Krakow said.

The department said at around 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) a man drove into the square and began shooting “at random” from his car.

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US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as chief of staff.

Trump said his deputy chief of staff did an “outstanding job” and would be moved to the “Trump Political Operation”.

The news comes after Republicans suffered a series of major defeats in the 2026 midterm elections, including losing control of both chambers of Congress.

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Iran is undertaking significant new construction near at least two of its major missile sites, satellite images suggest. We examine why this poses a challenge for the US.

Also on the programme, a senior Iranian official has sent the US a nuclear proposal via Qatar, according to the Reuters news agency.

And Iraq’s Foreign Minister warns that pro-Iran militias based in Iraq could get involved in the war, as disarmament talks between them and the Iraqi government stall.

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