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

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

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

You know, sometimes kind of there's one story, you think, oh, how do we make sense of this one?

And then another one erupts and so on. And if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to look at

three kind of things that have happened

since we last gathered together. Not necessarily in this order. One, the arrest of

Nicola Sturgeon, released without charge. The latest twists and turns of the never-ending Johnson saga and try to look at the wider

implications, not just the ego of this figure. And also because it does have wider implications,

the shift in policy from Labour via Rachel Reeves in terms of their commitment

to borrow £28 billion for their so-called green recovery package. And in a way, given that

other events that we'll be exploring make arguably a Labour government more likely, that is a really

important dimension that we need to make sense of. So a huge amount to cry I'm in, then some

questions from you. And before all of that, just one notice this week, which is to thank those

of you who subscribe on Patreon. It's via that that

I'm sitting here in a beautiful studio, Podmaster's studio, with the brilliant Simon Williams

producing. He's been fantastic. A relatively new recruit to Podmaster is terrific. Anyway,

it's via you that all this becomes possible.

And if you do subscribe, I was looking through it. You get amongst many other things like

the podcast early without the ads and stuff, a bonus series. And I'm about to complete

the most recent series, which is on troublemakers in British politics.

And in that series, there are assessments of Tony Benn, Nigel Farage, Enoch Powell, and others.

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