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

Thank you very much for tuning in, wherever you are around the world.

It's great to have you with us, and we have we have got as ever a lot to get through in the time

we've got together. If it's okay with you, I'll start shortly reflecting on the epic dramas of

recent days, vaccine nationalism, the Northern Ireland protocol, Brexit. It combines so many themes. I could be talking for a long time, but I won't,

I promise you. And then, of course, we'll turn as ever to your brilliant questions, which are

ways of guiding us to other highly topical issues of the moment. Before that, if I could just

very gently say, the next live show, we're in February now,

is on Wednesday, February the 17th. That's the live stream on the Kings Place website.

And you can get tickets now, which is the way to do it. If you buy a ticket now, you put it in the diary,

get ready for it. Live on February the 17th, then of course we have live questions, our live unreliable predictions that have

historic consequences and of course time to reflect on whatever's going on then. Politics is so

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