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The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the twice weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thanks so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and indeed the rest of the world.

And even more than ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together. If it's okay with all of you,

I'll be reflecting on the latest twists and turns, of course they're Brexit twist and turns,

with the Irish Protocol, a look also at the dance, the latest movement in the dance between Kirstama and

Jeremy Corbyn and contextualise it a bit, and a bit more on Scotland.

I'm offered a few reflections at the beginning of

the podcast at the end of last week, which included the interview with Lord Butler, Robin Butler,

the cabinet secretary under Thatcher, Major and Blair. There's more to come, isn't there, on all three.

Oh, consequences erupting around us all over the place.

And I'm going to do it also via some of the emails you've sent in, as ever.

Brilliant emails.

But I've had some great ones and very thoughtful ones on all those themes. So instead of me kind of going on for a bit

and then over to you, there's going to be you and I in dialogue together a bit in this one. And before all

of that, just a couple of notices. The live shows are kicking off uh next month birmingham march

the 21st at the thousand trades club kings place the first of the year there on march the 23rd

belfast march the 26 at the black box in hill street rope tackle shoreum on March the 29th, with them in Barnacastle,

April the 1st, and the Old Market Theatre, Brighton, on April the 24th.

So there's a kind of mini tour which came from nowhere.

And you can get tickets on their websites or via the blurb for this podcast where there will be the links.

And please, if you can, subscribe to Patreon, where there are all kinds of bonus podcasts,

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