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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Trump and Iran – Has Britain learned the lessons of Iraq?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Keir Starmer has said the “mistakes” of Iraq have been learnt and he has published the legal advice that justifies allowing the US to use British military bases in its attacks on Iran. But there were plenty of other “mistakes” in relation to Iraq – are they being repeated now? To join our never-ending debate email your latest thoughts to steveric14@icloud.com • Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Cambridge Literary Festival on Saturday April 25th. You can get tickets here.  • And live at Kings Place on May 11th, days after the May elections: tickets here. Support the podcast on Patreon for live events, bonus podcasts and to get the regular podcast a day early and ad free.  Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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Thank you very much for tuning in.

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Well, we have a lot to cram in in our time together. Was it only the end of last week when we were

1:51.6

all gathered to reflect on the implications of the by-election? And now we are in World War III. Well, not quite, but you know what I mean, a military

2:04.6

action already spreading well beyond Iran wholly predictably. And if it's okay with all of you,

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I will reflect a bit on that in a moment before that. Yeah, some amazing number of emails

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