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

And first, I must begin with an apology. It hasn't been weekly for the last few weeks.

And I've broken a pledge the last time I broadcast this podcast. I said definitively at the end that I was about to go up to the Edinburgh Festival

and I would record the weekly podcast live from Edinburgh.

Well, not live, it would be recorded.

But I didn't.

I broke the pledge.

It's an interesting insight to a politician's dilemma.

Sometimes they make pledges, believing it when they make them,

and then find that, to quote the euphemism, circumstances change. Well, it's not always a euphemism.

Sometimes it can be true. Edinburgh, as ever, was brilliant and exciting and tiring,

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