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

Thanks so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the west of the world.

West of the world?

The rest of the world.

The rest of the Western world.

The world.

Anyway, thanks so much for tuning in.

And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together.

Yeah, a lot going on.

You know, just when you think things can't really get

crazier, they get crazier and darker and weirder. So if it's okay with all of you, this is what

we're going to do. I'll make a few announcements in a moment, you know, the kind of assembly

announcements of what's happening in the school during the week. And then I will reflect

on the many lessons and consequences of those local election results. I won't have time to get

through them all, actually. It was unusually for local elections. There was, I think, a lot of significance in them and lots of

lessons to be learned. And within that, of course, I will incorporate Kirstama and Beirgate,

so-called. Then over to you for a whole range of questions. We've got questions from all over

the place, from Dubai and all kinds of

places. And some great ones, great insights on those local elections from our on the ground

correspondence, a new idea on how we develop the rock and roll politics cooperative, the greatest

threat to John Lewis since John Lewis was founded.

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