Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me Steve Richards,

the podcast where we dealt deep, where we try and contextualize all the

stories raging around us on a daily basis. And as ever, we have got a huge amount to cram in

our time together. And by the way, thank you for those of you who have said you like the

additional second podcast, which you for those of you who have said you like the additional second podcast,

which you get on a Thursday or Friday, depending on whether you are Patreon subscribers or not.

I really appreciate it.

And we've got time later on in the week to delve deep again arising from questions that

you've sent in, for example.

This is something we can look at later in the week.

A question from Sean Farrell, who wants to probe a bit about Neil Kinnock, who's done

a lot of interviews recently.

And as Sean points out, Neil Kinnock, by instinct, is ultra loyal, can't stand Jeremy Corbyn.

But he started to be a bit critical of Kier-Stama in a way that he was very careful in public, at least, not to be before,

which is very interesting because we can explore what it means to be on the soft left, Lucy Powell, etc., etc.

That's one example of what we can do later on in the week.

But now, this is what we've got to do in our time together.

If it's okay with you, we'll start with a few notices.

Then I'm going to reflect a bit about the monarchy

and what that tells us about this country.

Because at times of crisis, it is very illuminating.

And there have been many crises in recent decades.

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