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 Kyrs-Darma 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 Keir Stama,

but in the context of endless speculation that he might.

And it was really, while I was recording,

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