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

Thank you for tuning in wherever you are in Britain and the rest of the world. In a minute, if it's okay

with all of you, I'm going to reflect a bit on the Gorton and Denton bi-election. Voting takes

place on Thursday. And there is a feeling that this is one of these by-elections with

consequences. We will reflect on that as well, actually.

And then we come to some brilliant, brilliant emails from those of you joining in the

never-ending debate in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative. Before all of that, a few notices.

First of all, last week, I read an email and the name had disappeared.

It was a very good email raising questions about Darren Jones. Is he a good interviewee or not?

And Shabana Mahmood, in the view of the emailer not being.

Anyway, the emailer was Marian Sainsbury, who quite often

writes to the rock and roll politics cooperative, and we've met. So I discovered because

Marion emailed and said, it was me. I don't know what happened to the name. The emails are

flying in, many, many of them. And sometimes in the compilation, errors are made.

Not by me, just errors happen. I also want to thank Alex Atherton, who was a head teacher at a very

prominent academy school, bumped to Alex on a train. And he very kindly said he wanted me to read a book

he had written, which has arrived, called the Snowflake Myth. And this is about what he sees as the

myth of this being a generation of, well, snowflakes, whereas he sees no evidence for that at all. So it's quite an optimistic book.

I've only just looked at the beginning, Alex, but I will read it. The Snowflake Myth,

if others of you are interested. Thank you for sending it to me, Alex, and it was nice to

bump into you on a train. One final thing, the rock and roll politics show is live at King's Place in the days

immediately after the May elections, which will be dramatic. I think it's May the 11th. But before

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