Is Britain trapped by the "special relationship"?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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4.7 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Leaks from a national security council meeting suggest cabinet ministers challenged the assumption that Trump should have the automatic right to access British military bases. The grown up discussion was portrayed by some newspapers as a sign of weakness, which says more about those newspapers than Starmer and his ministers. Isn’t the Iran crisis showing that the ‘special relationship’ is largely a humiliating one for Britain and needs to be challenged more fundamentally once the current crisis is in some way resolved? If resolution is possible… To join the never-ending debate in the Rock & Roll Politics co-operative email steveric14@icloud.com. Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Cambridge Literary Festival on Saturday April 25th. Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on May 11 for post election special. Subscribe to Patreon to support the podcast and join the co-operative’s elite wing. Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.3	Thank you so much for tuning in. We've got a lot to cram in in our time together,
1:28.6	some brilliant emails from the rock and roll politics cooperative.
1:35.1	But if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect a bit on what is so interesting about kind of crises, emergencies, is light is shone on so many different aspects of almost the working assumptions of the media,
1:48.0	the right in politics in Britain and elsewhere, and much else. And I'm going to reflect on
1:55.4	some of these elements of the ongoing crisis, which was both predictable and predictable that Trump and
2:04.6	Netanyahu hadn't thought through the consequences.
2:09.7	Just on that, we know that Trump doesn't think through consequences.
2:12.8	We see him live on television around 24 hours a day reflecting on international events of one sort or another
2:21.4	and it's clear that that capacity to think through what you are doing and what might follow from
2:28.9	it is not part of his armory to put it at its most polite. And similarly with Netanyahu, who,
2:38.0	I mean, what a combination of that kind of character of Trump and Netanyahu, who will stop
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