Two Predictions for 2022
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In the first podcast of the New Year, I reflect on two big political taboos that I predict will be broken in 2022, and brilliant questions on the politics of Tony Blair, when governments fall and the latest on Covid. Rock N Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on Jan 24th.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards, and a happy new year to you, |
| 0:29.3 | wherever you are in the UK and around the world. Well, 2021 was quite a year and I think together, |
| 0:57.0 | and it really was together, we helped to try and make sense of the layers of madness. And we will have to do the same in 2022. There is so much that's going to happen in this year. And we need to delve deep to make sense of it all. And we'll be beginning today, |
| 1:02.9 | if that's okay with all of you. Some fantastic questions came in over Christmas and the new year. |
| 1:10.4 | And I'll reflect on a couple of the themes which I think will dominate in the coming 12 months briefly. There will be others and they will come up each |
| 1:15.9 | week inevitably. So there's all of that to come in our time together today for the first time in |
| 1:22.5 | 2022. Great questions on all kinds of things. The role of Blair, quite a bit about Blair creeping |
| 1:31.0 | him, maybe because he got the knighthood. You know, finally the queen gave him a knighthood. |
| 1:37.4 | It took many years. John Major got one after about 10 minutes. Anyway, before I begin with a couple |
| 1:43.9 | of New Year thoughts, |
| 1:46.2 | just a couple of things. First of all, those of you who asked for stickers, for books, |
| 1:52.5 | the Prime Minister, as we never had, I hope I got them all to you. If I did, please email me and |
| 1:59.5 | I'll, I'll do it belatedly and you can sort of tell the recipient, |
| 2:03.7 | it's here. A signature with a message, a distinct message, but I hope most of you got those. |
| 2:10.9 | And the other thing is, yeah, the first live rock and roll politics is on Monday, the January the 24th at King's Place. |
| 2:20.8 | Great if you can come along. |
| 2:22.7 | We'll make sense of things there. |
| 2:25.1 | The start of the year, we'll look ahead and delve deep, have some fun as well. |
| 2:30.7 | That's live at King's Place, but it's also being stream live. So for those of you listening in |
| 2:36.4 | Australia, Canada, America, Europe, who can't quite just get to King's Place, it's being stream |
| 2:44.5 | live as well. And the tickets are available on the King's Place website. So that's it for the notices. And now let's have a couple of |
| 2:54.5 | reflections if it's okay with you from me before we return to all of you with thoughts and |
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