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

Thank you for tuning in wherever you

are and as ever we've got a lot to cram in in our time together and finally back in london having been

out on the road at the edinburgh festival and yeah actually a related edinburgh announcement in our assembly notices before I move on to a couple of reflections from me, very brief, because the questions have flown in after I lifted my controversial questions embargo over August, which was broken, hence the controversy.

Yeah, there have been lots, so I'm going to focus on some of them, if that's okay with all of you, mainly. But a couple of reflections from me,

but before that, just a reminder, if you subscribe to Patreon, you get the podcast a day early

without ads, and also a bonus podcast each month. And the bonus

for this month will be the last show at the Edinburgh Festival where we pulled together all

the strands from the 14 shows. So they have a certain kind of timeless quality to them because we delve

deep over the 14 shows.

I'm not using the Royal We. I couldn't have done it without the audiences as my guide.

And so, yeah, and if you do subscribe, if you haven't already, there's a whole back catalogue of bonus podcasts for you to enjoy as you run and walk and swim and bake cakes, etc.

And thank you for those of you who do, and that will be coming up in the coming days,

the last Edinburgh show.

And while we're on the subject, the first one of the new political season will be at King's Place

on October the 7th.

That's just after the party conferences, which will be really interesting. The Labour

Conference, the first since the election, will inevitably be partly a victory celebration.

But after that Kirstamaama speech in the Downing Street

garden, where deliberately he kind of induced a sense of gloom, I don't know, I hear they're all

pleased with the way it's landed. I wouldn't be, to be honest, but there we go. So it would be

fascinating to see how they manage the

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