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

and we've got a special for you

in that we at huge expense recorded the last live show of the year uh rock and roll politics

the christmas special live in the main concert hall in king's place so that is coming up with a dramatic prediction from the audience in the hall and almost as

dramatic a prediction from the audience who bought online tickets from around the country.

We'll come to that in a moment.

But just beforehand, a notice if you want to subscribe to get the podcast automatically,

the dream scenario, just tap subscribe if you're listening via Apple Podcasts or, yeah, on Spotify,

just hit the follow button. It takes a second and there they are arriving, like magic.

And just, I notice on podcasts, not that I listen to many, apart from our one in the rock and roll

politics cooperative together, lots of people are pushing their wares for Christmas presents.

I haven't done it at all.

So just for 10 seconds, what better Christmas present than tickets for

the next live show, which will be in the main concert hall at King's Place on February the 11th?

Just imagine opening that as a present. The tickets there glittering with the prospect of pleasure

to come in the new year. I've also got that

book out, which we talked about in one of the podcasts, and you sent in some brilliant emails

about, on Tony Blair. It's a short biography in a series of prime ministerial biography.

So that too would be a great present for those you love or indeed those you hate who

might not want it. They just say, there you are, here it is. Anyway, that too is an idea.

Enough, enough. Let's get to the main item on the podcast. And by the way, I should add,

there have been some fantastic questions coming in. We didn't get time for all of them at the

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