This Time No Mistakes – In Conversation with Will Hutton

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The journalist and author Will Hutton has written an important new book on the eve of what’s likely to be a Labour government. The title is stark: This Time No Mistakes. But what mistakes were made? What are the lessons of the past? What are his hopes and fears for a Keir Starmer government? This Time No Mistakes is published on April 11th. Buy it through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund Rock & Roll Politics by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Support Rock & Roll Politics on Patreon for early episodes, exclusive merchandise and free admission to Steve’s Local Elections 2024 Post-Mortem, live on Zoom at 5pm on Friday 3 May. https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.
0:12.7	Thank you for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the rest of the world.
0:20.6	And as usual, we've got a heck of a lot to cram in in our time together.
0:26.3	In a minute, I'll be in a conversation with Will Hutton,
0:30.5	the writer, journalist, broadcaster,
0:33.2	who's got a great book out, an important book out, called This Time No Mistakes.
0:39.4	So I'll be having a conversation with him.
0:42.3	Afterwards, a few of your brilliant questions that have continued to come in over that Easter period.
0:49.1	But before all of that, a few notices.
0:53.0	First of all, very important.
0:55.1	For Patreon subscribers, and thank you for subscribing.
0:59.1	And please do, if you haven't,
1:01.1	because it helps keep this whole thing on the road
1:04.8	with the legendary podmasters and Simon, the producer, and so on.
1:10.3	But more immediately, the reason to subscribe is that the next live gathering for those of us
1:18.8	on Patreon will be the day after the local elections next month.
1:24.6	That's Friday.
1:25.8	Is it Friday, May the 4th, anyway, the day after, the Friday after?
1:29.8	At 5pm, we will all need to gather to make sense of it all. I'll give some opening reflections,
1:36.1	and then we can have a wider discussion. We all know what is at stake. There is, I think, a group of Tory MPs talking seriously about toppling
1:48.5	Sunak.
1:49.6	If they are bad, will that happen?
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