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 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. It was his theme in a way that I find very interesting and illuminating.

And it's interesting to compare with Kirstama's current pitch, which we will do in our time together.

We've got some fantastic questions from all of you on a remarkable range of themes, all delving deep,

and we'll come to them and say lots of different countries represented as well, which is

always great. Before all of that notices, of course, the big one, for those of you on the Patreon

version of rock and roll politics, and why are you all on the Patreon version of rock and roll politics?

There's a lot going on there.

Anyway, for those of you who are, we've got our first ever live Zoom together on Wednesday at 7 o'clock.

So do join in.

It will be a kind of opening reflection from me.

Then we'll have a kind of wider discussion.

And yeah, it'll be great.

I'm really looking forward to it.

So that's Wednesday live at 7.

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