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

Well, what a few days. And as I pledged earlier in the week and when I pledge, I keep to my pledges.

We needed to get together again for a second time

in an attempt to delve deep and make sense of it all.

So if it's okay with all of you,

this is going to be the kind of structure of what is becoming a cliche now

because everyone say, oh, it's time for an emergency podcast.

But this is a cause for an emergency podcast.

So a few notices.

Then a few reflections on me.

Remember where we left off in our time together earlier in the week,

we had had the dramatic reshuffle,

but since then we've had the court

judgment on Rwanda and the vote on the ceasefire vis-a-vis Israel, Gaza in the House of Commons.

So huge amounts to make sense of. Of course, last time, very unusually,

it was all so fast moving and quite late on that I didn't have time to read out your brilliant

question. So we'll get to as many as those as is possible. But remember, we get together again very early next week to make sense of it all.

So more time then.

Sorry if I don't read your questions out.

They've been flying in and all brilliant, but as many as possible.

Just a couple of notices.

The big one, please subscribe to the Patreon version

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