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

Thanks so much for tuning in and you know what I'm going to say.

As ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together. I'll make a couple of notices,

kind of like assembly notices. And then if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to address a

question. I'm not going to answer it. I don't think conclusively. I'll be an epic genius in

charge of everything if I could. But the question is,

where is the economic growth coming from? Now, I know some of you do not think economic growth is

necessarily inherently a good thing for climate change reasons, etc. But I'm not on that wing of the

rock and roll politics cooperative. Without growth,

we're not going to get the improvements in the public services. And yet it is a challenge

because without improvements in the public services, transport, childcare, etc. Can't quite

see how we're going to get the growth. Anyway, I'm going to be exploring that,

if that's okay, with all of you. And then over to your brilliant questions. So that's what we've

got in our time together. Get running, baking, tiling, or whatever you're up to as you listen

to the podcast. A couple of notices. First of all, those of you who

subscribe to the Patreon version of Rock and Roll Politics, the July bonus is going to be a live

edition exclusive to Patreon subscribers at 7 o'clock on Monday, July the 24th, and we can therefore have a

live discussion together trying to make sense of it all. And it would be the Monday after the

by-elections. We've got these three by-elections coming up on the previous Thursday. And of course,

there are all kinds of other things whirling around, which we can delve

deep in our time together on that live event. And if you can't make it, those of you on Patreon,

it will be there as a recording for you to look at and to sort of join in the discussion and so on

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