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

Thank you all very much for tuning in wherever you are around the world.

And as usual, we've got a lot to cram in.

Coming up, some brilliant questions on a whole range of

urgently topical issues and a bit of reflections on me about something, which will come to any

second. Before that, just a reminder, a bit of history about to take place in a few days' time.

The live show streamed from my boudoir is probably, hopefully, going to be the last

because everything's opening up in June, isn't it? We hope, fingers crossed.

So, on May the 12th, there is a historic live stream via the Kingsplace

website from a boudoir in my house, rock and roll politics live. I'll be reflecting on the post-election

landscape, these big elections coming up this week. Where does it leave

Johnson and the Tories, Labour and Stama, the SMP, the future of Scotland, and much more

besides? And of course there will be the continuing theme of Johnson, his number 10, which I think is a sort of understated element of this, the degree to which allegations of sleighs destabilize an office.

And this is a weird number 10. I'm going to explain in more detail why. There will be your live

questions, unreliable predictions. And as I say, tickets, get them now. Those of you who haven't

joined in in the past, see what it was all about in lockdown, how we all kept going in spite of all

the constraints. And then in June there will be a live

show at King's Place. You can get those tickets too. But it will also be streamed. For those of you

who can't get to London, if you live in Europe, America, anyone in Britain, you can come and

join us live. Yeah, we'll have a few drinks at the end like old times.

Those are available live, but it'll also be streamed. So that's coming up this, well, Wednesday,

May the 12th and then June is the live one. If it's okay with you, I'm going to reflect a bit.

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