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

Thank you very much for joining us from wherever you are around the world. Here we are in the depths or the heights of August and still reflecting, making sense of things, having a laugh, making bread, running, whatever.

Anyway, thank you very much. Let me tell you what I'm going to be doing today or we're going to be doing together.

Later on, some fantastic questions on a whole range of different issues, from politicians who are in the wrong party, that one's ongoing, to many other different things.

Before then, if it's okay with you, I'm going to reflect more on prime ministers we

never had my book on this theme is out in the first week in September you can

pre-order it now if you pre-order from Waterstones you can get a signed copy I'll put

the link for that on the blurb for the podcast, wherever you get the podcast.

And yeah, that would be great if you pre-order and get the signed copy, or you can order it or pre-order it from all the usual range of things.

While we're on this topic, I'm going to be taking a break from the podcast for a couple of weeks after this

one. So you can make this one last for a long time, or you can listen back to past ones.

It's odd. I was looking back at the podcast we've all sort of taken part in together.

And because the aim is to kind of contextualize and explain

and not just kind of respond frenetically to whatever the immediate peg of a podcast might be,

they do have curiously kind of timeless quality.

They can listen back if you're going to miss the podcast for a couple of weeks.

Then I'll be back in the first, well, it'll be kind of

around that bank holiday period for England. I know it's not applicable in Scotland.

And so kind of, but the key thing is if you subscribe, you'll get it. And then I'll tell you

what we'll be doing in that one then but I'm just going to take the next

couple of weeks off and chill man isn't that the word but before then let's continue where we

left off last week if it's okay with you last week I was looking at there's a lot of stuff around

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