And now a special festive announcement.

How about this for a Christmas present suggestion?

A present to you from someone who might be mistakenly planning to buy you, say,

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Why not share the link in the show notes in the family WhatsApp,

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podcast. Hurrah! Christmas is sorted. Hi, this is Steve Richards with just a quick reminder that

tonight rock and roll politics is streaming live from the Kings Place website at 7 o'clock.

So do join us. I'm going to be reflecting on what I think is the big

lasting consequence of the pandemic in the UK.

Of course, it's about a year ago that this started raging in the UK. And I think it's about the changed relationship

with the state. It's really interesting. I'm going to, as ever with me, you know what I'm like.

And I think you're the same. It's very interesting to contextualize all of this. And I've been

looking back as far as the 1979 Conservative Party manifesto and what it said about the state.

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