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Shopify.com.ukau.ukes slash Spotify. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, and the entire rock and roll politics cooperative.

This is the second one of the week. Of course, we're doing two a week now. So if you want to get it

automatically on your feeds, do press subscribe. And there it will be, as if by magic. If it's

okay with you, I'm going to reflect briefly on the focus from the government and Kirstama on the

cost of living as the defining theme and test

for the government, because I think it is very interesting. And as we all know on this podcast,

we do context. And there is a revealing context, I think, to this from the distant past, which I will reflect on.

And the joy of the second podcast is, I mean, sometimes we'll be doing interviews,

but it also gives me time to get some more questions and points raised from the cooperative.

So I'll be making my way through some of those

sent during the Christmas break, didn't have time to do as many as I would have liked

earlier in the week, but do keep them coming. So we'll do some of that. Just a couple of notices.

As you can probably tell, my voice isn't brilliant at the moment. I've got a bit

of a kind of chesty cough. If you got this chesty cough, everyone I know seems to be suffering from it.

The reason I say this is not to try and trigger a wave of sympathy, but I did record as promised.

I'm now as unreliable with my pledges as certain politicians.

I did say that the bonus Patreon podcast would be with you by now, actually. And it was recorded.

The series for Patreon subscribers is looking at when prime ministers fall, not predicting

that that's going to happen to Kier-Stama, but in the context of endless speculation that

he might. And it was really, while I was recording, I thought, oh, this is so interesting,

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