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

Thank you so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the rest of the world.

And in fact, we've got lots of questions from the rest of the world today as well as the UK coming up.

So yeah, if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on a theme that we

have together explored in the past, but it's come back big time actually. And that theme is

freedom as a political weapon. And the context of me returning to it is that Biden has seized the term

in the video that announced he was standing for the second term, freedom came up six times.

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