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

Thank you so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the rest of the world. Oh, and on that front,

by the way, we have got many contributions. You know, we're having for existing listeners and for

new listeners, here's a kind of warning or promise. We're having a bit of a discussion about how we

get the money into public services in the UK

on this podcast and how we get better public service delivery.

And we're getting these brilliant contributions from around the world.

And later on, as we reflect again on this debate about whether co-payments is a solution or a red herring. We've got contributions

from Portugal, from America, I think, from, yeah, all over the place. And back to Belgium,

where part of this debate began. So, yeah, we are very much global. Berlin as well, I think,

gets a look in, very global in our perspectives

on that and many other issues. Anyway, look, thank you for coming along and reflecting and trying

to make sense of it all. If it's okay with all of you in a moment or two, I will be reflecting

on a couple of issues briefly.

Ukraine, we haven't, we've been giving that a miss recently.

I'm just going to reflect on that for a moment or two, partly based on some stuff I've been

reading.

And then very quickly, because a lot of it's been done and the anniversary is passed,

but I thought, you know, this 25-year anniversary since the election of Labour in 1997 with that

landslide, I will reflect on, it's dangerous extrapolating lessons from previous election victories,

as those of you who kindly subscribe to Patreon will have noted from the elections I've covered in

the bonus podcast. But anyway, there are lessons and I'll reflect on that. And then over to you

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