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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Can the government find a more effective media strategy?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Podmasters

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Number 10’s media strategy is fairly old-fashioned: the morning round for the broadcasters, interviews with the TV political editors and placing articles in right wing newspapers. Does any of this do them any good? And if not, what should they do instead? And this is partly an excuse to look at the wild media landscape! Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place this Thursday. There are only a few tickets left, and streaming tickets are available too. Get tickets here. Subscribe to Patreon for bonus podcasts, the main podcast a day early and ad free… plus special exclusive live events. Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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For more information, go to amazon.com.uker.U.K. slash Prime. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me Steve Richards.

0:51.1

Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are.

0:56.3

And as ever, we have got tons to cram in. First of all, a partial apology. I said at the end of last week's podcast,

1:02.8

there were so many brilliant questions. There was a possibility, I might do a second podcast last

1:08.9

week. I didn't do it for various reasons, but it's only a partial apology

1:13.6

because it wasn't a pledge. You know, here in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative,

1:18.1

when we make pledges, we stick to them. But I said it might be possible, but it wasn't.

1:23.2

So very, very sorry about that partially because it wasn't a firm commitment. I left the door

1:30.8

slightly ajar. I, as Harold Wilson put it once, kept all options open, which you sometimes

1:38.7

have to do in politics and the media. Talking of which, if it's okay with all of you in a moment, I'm going to reflect on

1:48.0

the media landscape and whether the government can adapt to it more effectively than it has so

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