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

Thanks a lot for tuning in because we have got a lot to cram in in our time together at the

beginning of the week. You begin a week full of energy and curiosity and end the week in the same

place at the moment because we have to follow things in such depth. If it's okay with all of you,

I'm going to focus on the theme of the cost of living

in inverted commas. And then we will go to some brilliant emails from members of the rock and roll

politics cooperative, delving deep on a whole range of issues. Before that, just a quick couple of notices. Those of you who subscribe to

Patreon, thank you. And there will be another bonus podcast coming along this week on the theme of

when prime ministers fall. And we're looking at those not who lose through a general election or who

have to go through ill health, but who have

been subjected to an internal coup. And the next one we're going to look at. We've looked at

Eden, who sort of was a victim of an internal coup, Thatcher, who most definitely was,

and then we go to one that I hesitated about

doing because it was sort of half an internal coup, but only half, Tony Blair, who resigned in

2007 with a timetable partly set by those who wanted him out, although in a typically

third way manner, he sort of then set the timetable to his choosing. Anyway, it's really interesting.

It says a lot about that new labour period. So that will be coming hopefully this week or the beginning of next.

Yeah, and all the kind of live events coming. Oh, yeah, you know, I mentioned, I'm speaking at York

at the York Book Festival. And I checked it out and it will be a great event this. I've forgotten.

It's with Alan Johnson, because Alan Johnson,

the former cabinet minister, has written a short biography of Harold Wilson. I've written a short

biography of Tony Blair. And we're going to be talking about Wilson, Blair, and obviously

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