Are you driving home this Xmas (because the trains are useless)?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A small but emblematic announcement highlights why public services are so poor in the UK; the government has scrapped plans for an app to make booking train tickets easier. Steve Richards explores why public services are not structured for the benefit of the public. All this plus brilliant listener questions and notices for the Rock & Roll Politics co-operative and a Happy Christmas to you all! Support Rock & Roll Politics on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes and exclusive merchandise only available to subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Buy Steve’s book Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me Steve Richards.
0:13.0	Thank you for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed from around the rest of the world.
0:20.4	And even as Christmas looms, we've still got a lot to cram in in our time together.
0:27.7	There will be some great questions on all kinds of themes coming up.
0:32.3	And if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on one article I read hidden away in the
0:41.0	business news section of, it was the Daily Telegraph, I think, a couple of days ago, one which
0:48.0	has, I think, wider ramifications, one which inadvertently shines light on the mess we're in in the UK, this country
0:58.2	where nothing bloody works, you know, one of the kind of themes of 2023 and one of the themes of
1:04.8	the podcasts as we've tried to make sense of why things don't work and what can be done about it. Before all of that, just very
1:13.0	quickly, thank you all of you who came to the King's Place Christmas special. We had some fun
1:20.3	and shed light on a whole year and looked ahead to 2024. Thanks if you joined the stream as well. And more to come next year,
1:31.1	not just in London, but in other venues. Also, thank you those who asked for labels, for the book,
1:39.2	my book, Turning Points, for Christmas presents, for friends and family. Thank you also for the lovely comments many of you
1:46.3	made as well as you sent the emails in. Now, hopefully all those labels have been sent. So if you
1:54.0	haven't got one, please let me know by kind of Wednesday or something like that. And I'll send
1:59.7	another one. There was a huge story in the
2:02.3	Sunday Times at the weekend about the chaos of royal mail and the sort of delay in sending out
2:09.6	letters and cards and things. But hopefully you've got them. They've all been sent first class.
2:15.2	Cost me a fortune. Don't worry about it. But thank you for buying the book.
2:18.9	And of course, I think it's too late now to do any more of those before Christmas.
2:23.2	But you can still buy the book as a great present.
2:26.7	Turning Points, a book that tries to make sense of it all from a context of 1945 onwards.
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