I'm I'm Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in.

Hope you had a great Christmas.

Assuming you're listening to this after, well, you must be listening to this after Christmas.

It's going out after Christmas. I hope you had a great time, a bit of running amidst the home

cooking in beautiful kitchens around the world. Anyway, today in this sort of strange period between Christmas and New Year,

quite a likable period really, where there's a sense of a lull amidst all the crises,

although not much of a lull really given the scale of the crises. But anyway, what we're going to

do today, if it's okay with all of you,

is explore, I really enjoyed last week exploring the term reform. If you haven't heard it,

please tune into that last week. It was our pre-Christmas special look at the term reform.

And someone reminded me, I forgot to mention that

actually in the context of reform, there's actually a party calling itself reform. It is the most

ubiquitous and imprecise term. Anyway, this time we're going to look at the term trust, which is another ubiquitous term in

British politics. You see on vox-pops, you know, don't trust any of these bloody politicians,

you know, and all this kind of thing. Trust politics in this sort of globalised era. Anyway, that was the task set by Newcastle

University recently. They asked me to give a lecture on that theme. And I recorded it. And so here it is.

It was a lecture made without notes. I love, I know it's deeply old-fashioned

this, but I love the lecture as a form, actually. I don't know what you all think about it.

And it's so sad. People tell me that students don't bother going. This was for the Newcastle

University alumni annual conference. and it was packed with people

from different generations, quite young people, people who had been there in the kind of, I don't

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