Who is Winning The Battle of Ideas?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Lawson once noted that the party that wins the battle of ideas wins elections. He was right. Ideas matter and yet play little part in the contest between Sunak and Starmer. But the Right remain ideologically confident. Will a Labour government be able to counter the anti-state onslaught that is bound to happen? Plus exciting notices and brilliant questions from the Rock & Roll Politics co-operative. Rock & Roll Politics is live at King’s Place, London, on Wed 10 July for a pre-election special. Get tickets here. Back Rock & Roll Politics on Patreon and get FREE access to Steve’s 2024 Local Elections Post-Mortem live on Zoom, 5pm on Friday 3 May. Analysis, projections and your questions – all free to Patreon people. Written and presented by Steve Richards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:09.0	Get Adobe Express for free. Search for Adobe Express to find out more. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.
0:39.9	Thank you for tuning in.
0:41.3	We've got a heck of a lot to cram in in our time together.
0:44.8	A few notices for the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative in a moment.
0:49.6	And then I'm going to reflect on the all important. It doesn't necessarily seem important, but I think it is
0:57.4	battle of ideas. And it is a complicated battle, yet so important for reasons which I'll come on to
1:06.4	with reference to Liz Truss, Tony Blair, K Stama, Rachel Reeves and a couple of others,
1:13.0	Bridget Phillipson, Battle of Ideas. I might even refer to Attlee, contextualise the Battle of Ideas.
1:20.1	And I'll try and explain why I think it is so important. And then a whole range of brilliant
1:25.9	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
1:48.2	election special. There is, as you know, some speculation he might be tempted by July. I doubt it
1:56.0	myself, but there we are. It's out there. But the pre-election special as things stand and yeah we will have
2:03.3	to delve deep by them because we will be looking ahead to um a looming general election and who
2:10.5	knows where we will be by then a lot will have happened by then but tickets are on sale at the king's
2:16.5	place website and there's a link in the blurb
2:19.7	to this podcast. And also, please subscribe to Patreon, keep this show on the road, partly, but also,
2:27.3	because of all the bonuses, including a live event for us, slot on Patreon, the day after the
2:33.7	local elections, that Friday at 5pm,
2:36.2	there'll be a link. Lots of you have already signed up and look forward to seeing so many of you
2:42.1	there. And hopefully, in the meantime, the bonus podcast for April has arrived for Patreon.
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