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

Thank you for tuning in. We've got a heck of a lot to cram in in our time together. A few notices

for the rock and roll politics cooperative in a moment. And then I'm going to reflect on the all-important. It doesn't necessarily seem important,

but I think it is battle of ideas. And it is a complicated battle, yet so important, for reasons which

I'll come on to with reference to Liz Truss, Tony Blair, Kirstama,

Rachel Reeves and a couple of others, Bridget Phillipson, Battle of Ideas. I might even refer to

Attlee contextualise the Battle of Ideas. And I'll try and explain why I think it is so

important. And then a whole range of brilliant questions from around the world.

We'll try and get through as many of those as we possibly can in our time together.

So a couple of notices, and some of you emailed me about this. The next live show at King's Place

is on July the 10th, a pre-election special, unless he's called it,

in which case it will be an election special. There is, as you know, some speculation.

He might be tempted by July. I doubt it myself, but there we are. It's out there.

But the pre-election special as things stand.

And yeah, we will have to delve deep by them because we will be looking ahead to a looming general election.

And who knows where we will be by then. A lot will have happened by then.

But tickets are on sale at the King's Place website,

and there will be a link in the blurb to this podcast. And also, please subscribe to Patreon,

keep this show on the road, partly, but also because of all the bonuses, including a live

event for Us lot on Patreon.

The day after the local elections, that Friday at 5pm, there'll be a link.

Lots of you have already signed up and look forward to seeing so many of you there.

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