I'm I'm 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 around the rest of the world.

And you know what I'm going to say? We've got so much to cram in in our time together.

If it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on the wider lessons of the BBC Gary Lineca affair and pose the question, will they be learnt? Then we come to your

questions. I've got loads of questions about the Linneka affair. I probably won't go to them

if it's okay with you because we're all on the same terrain. But I read them all and it's kind of

fuelled the thoughts that I'm having

when we go to that bit of the podcast section. But lots of other really interesting questions,

including some on the Danny Finkelstein interview and all kinds of other things. I'm still

getting lots in, by the way, on the Neil Lawson interview, it's interesting when you delve deep

with people free to kind of really reflect on Labor's current position. So yeah, that will come up.

If it's okay, God, I keep on saying it, and I shouldn't. If it's okay with all of you,

I'm going to a few notices. First of all, if you subscribe to Patreon, the bonus podcasts are mounting up.

And this series of troublemakers is focusing on Nigel Farage in the bonus podcast.

Thanks to all of those of you who do subscribe.

And we're now well into March and live events are kicking off for me for the first time this year.

I took a break from live events for January and February for various reasons.

So this Friday at the York Literary Festival, St. Peter's School in York,

and you can get tickets via the Theatre Royal, and I'll put the link

on the blurb for the podcast. I'll be talking there about my book, The Prime Ministers We Never

Had, from Rab Butler to Jeremy Corbyn. Yeah, by the way, this is how fast politics moves.

After Liz Truss became Prime Minister,

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