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

Thanks so much for tuning in.

We've got a lot to cram in, as you know, I always say at the beginning, and it's always true.

If it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on several events or exchanges or eruptions of recent days that have triggered the question in my mind anyway of where power really lies. I know it's been a theme of ours in the

Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative, a recurring theme, but not recently, actually. I think the last

time we explored this theme is when we debated what would really improve the NHS in terms of reforms,

not the kind of superficial glib term reform, and everyone goes, oh, yeah, how fantastic.

People are contemplating reform.

We actually explored what really would reform the NHS, and therefore we had to explore where power lay within that complex organisation.

And I'm going to explore that more widely.

And then we go to your questions, which have been brilliant and pouring in at the moment.

Inevitably, Israel, Gaza, reflections on the COVID inquiry and the

deeper lessons, because for new listeners, and there are new listeners every week, we delve deep

here, and on many other topics, too. And if we don't get through as many as I hope we can get through,

perhaps there are so many at the moment,

because so much is whirring around British politics.

I might have to do a second one.

But that's not a pledge.

It's not going to necessarily happen.

Before all of that, a couple of notes.

First of all, I'm sorry for those of you who had tickets for the show at the

Rope Tackle Art Center in Shoreham last week.

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