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

Thanks for tuning in and thank you for tuning in for the question time special.

For those of you who saw that title and thought that I was hosting a kind of BBC

question time or that it was going to be some form of Prime Minister's questions. It'll be better

than both of those, I can promise you. Now what we're going to do, if it's all right with all of you,

is navigate some of the themes whirling around us via some great questions. A summary for all

of you of the Patreon Zoom that we did last week. We did a live Zoom and a summary of some of the

questions that I weren't able to get to during that time together. And other questions that have been emailed in over recent

days. So that's coming up and it will be a way in which we make sense of it all through the

points and questions. A couple of notices before then, if that's okay with all of you. First of all, as the summer recess intensifies, we're at the early elements of it.

We'll be doing something a little different with the podcast each week, but it will be here with you each week.

And if you subscribe, it arrives by magic into your podcast. You can do it with any of them,

you know, the iPhone one or Spotify and all the others. It's on all the platforms, every single damn one.

So it will arrive as normal. And those of you who are in Patreon or sign up to Patreon, I mentioned this last week. You're going to get the bonus of one of the Edinburgh shows live. And talking of Edinburgh, it's coming up, live from August the 13th, every day, a different show at the Edinburgh Festival. And you can get the tickets on the blur for this podcast. And also, of course,

at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival website where they sell tickets for the 25,000 shows that are

going to be on at the Edinburgh Festival. I can't believe it's come upon us so quickly.

And during this period, say, the podcast will continue,

but take a break from emailing questions unless you've just got to do it for your own

cathartic purposes, because there will be fewer questions in our weekly gatherings together.

It'll all kick in again as normal in September when the recess ends.

So there'll be some great podcasts coming up. I'm quite excited, but probably won't have time for the

question element. But if you want to ask questions, there will be a question time section at the

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