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

Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are around the world and indeed around the UK.

I don't know why I'm doing it in a silly voice. I just felt like it.

When we were testing the levels, I did it in a silly voice.

I was thinking as I was cycling to the wonderful Podmaster's studio that one of my heroes is Peter Sellers and those voices.

Yeah, anyway, I'm sorry, I'm going crazy.

Anyway, welcome.

Thank you all so much for tuning in.

We have got, as ever, a heck of a lot to cram in our time together.

If it's okay with you, last week for those of you who

weren't around for some reason, of course the joy of podcasts is you can still pick it up,

I reflected on the challenges facing Rishi Sunak in the year ahead. I'm going to do the same

with Kirstama today. Before that, a few notices, and then we're off God.

The questions are amazing and trigger so many urgent themes.

Obviously, some of you responding to my reflections on Sunak, the state of the NHS, some stuff about Kirstama, a whole range of different things, and also kind of

rich themes. I don't know whether we're going to have time to get through them all.

So I won't preview them. When I say themes, you know, broader themes, not reflecting the current

emergency in the UK, like whether politicians still feel a sense of humiliation. Very interesting

question when, you know, things go terribly wrong as a result of what they say and do.

A couple of notices. Live shows in March and April have been fixed up. March the 23rd, I think it is, at King's Place,

first live show of the year. Who knows where we'll be and what the themes we'll explore deeply

that evening will be, but we will know near the time. That applies also. I'm going up to the

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