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

Thanks so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and around the rest of the world.

And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together.

If it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on two terms that are ubiquitous. We've

looked at one of them before. We've probably referred in passing to the other, but I want to

look at it in a bit more detail.

And I'll come on to those terms in a minute.

A couple of notices before then, and then over to all of you, or some of you, with your questions.

So, yeah, that's the kind of broad structure of our time together. So the notices, yeah, live at the Edinburgh

Festival from Sunday, August the 13th, all the way through to the end of the festival, different show

every day. I'm getting emails from some of you saying you're coming up, great, or going down,

depending where you are, or flying in.

But there's going to be a lot of great delving deep with some laughs there. And before then,

just a quick reminder on July the 11th at the Hitchin Festival that evening, whatever day of the

week that is, I've forgotten,

a live rock and roll politics show then as well. So if you're around, see you there.

That's it really for notices. Now on to something which is great. Sometimes, you know,

I get in such a range of questions and all of them. I read them all

and they're all stimulating. I'm sorry if I don't read them out. But I got one which has kind of

going to frame some of my opening thoughts, if that's okay with you. And it's from Andy maybe,

who describes herself as the Western Baker very justifiably because Andy sent me a photo

of some buns, some homemade buns he has baked, with the slight hint that they're available to

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