Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
Based on his live one-man show Rock & Roll Politics, the broadcaster and author Steve Richards takes a weekly behind-the-scenes tour of UK politics and the media that shapes the way we view the epic political dramas. The future is ridiculously unpredictable and the past is so easy to misread. Subscribe to your weekly guide through seismic times.
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Lockdown Special-The Sequel
A preview of the live virtual show on the Kings Place website at 7pm on Monday May 18th. The last live virtual show was on the day B.Johnson returned to work..how is he doing? How is K Starmer doing? And will the UK and politics in the UK change...
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
A look ahead to Monday's virtual show on the Kings Place website starting at 7 pm...The last live virtual show was on the day B Johnson returned to work...How's he doing? How's K Starmer doing? And will the virus emergency change the UK and politics...
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B Johnson- A Curious Indifference to 'Bombproof...
Boris Johnson outlined the Lockdown exit strategy in a grand televised address to the nation. Yet avoidable confusion followed. Why? I reflect on how Tony Blair and others in the New Labour era would 'bombproof' every statement before a public word...
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Lockdown Special: The Lessons From Setting a Ta...
This week I reflect on Matt Hancock not meeting his testing target, claiming to do so..and the triumph he could have claimed for getting close to his goal. Targets work..and the scrapping of targets was one of the many calamitous decisions taken by...
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Rock N Roll Politics The Virtual Show-A Trail
Rock n Roll Politics the Lockdown Special is on the Kings Place website at 7pm on Monday April 27th.
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Coronavirus-The daily press conferences v reali...
I am hooked on the Number 10 daily press conferences even though they are dull and reveal little..perhaps my addiction is explained by the gap between the eerie, subdued mood at the conferences with the epic crisis being played out..it's a darkly...
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B Johnson- A PM in hospital ; An interview with...
In this episode I look at how perceptions of B Johnson changed in terms of his role as a Prime Minister when he was moved to Intensive Care-he was viewed suddenly as more leadenly than he was; I interviewed T Blair for my Radio 4 programme on Labour's...
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Virus: Powerless ministers in 'reformed' NHS an...
Not for the first time ministers are hoist by their own petard as they try to exert control over the NHS only to discover they gave away their powers to do so..and Keir Starmer wins by a landslide.
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Johnson and The Virus; Starmer and Leadership
B Johnson has been famous for so long it is easy to forget how inexperienced he is as a PM facing the big challenge since 1945...and now he gets the virus along with other key players. Keir Starmer faces a different challenge..making his mark at a...
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The State Is Back In Fashion
In this episode: The coronavirus means all fashionable assumptions are turned on their head. We turn to the state to come to our rescue after decades in the UK when big government and public spending were seen as a threat...but even so B Johnson's...
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The Virus becomes political and the Budget chan...
In the latest episode of Rock N Roll Politics I conclude I was wrong a week ago in suggesting that the virus would not become political...and a Tory Chancellor contradicts his predecessors and media orthodoxy by arguing that higher spending boosts...
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The New Political Landscape
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Boris, Brexit and a Hung Parliament
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B Johnson becomes PM
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Series 2- Episode 2
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Tory Leadership Special
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Brexit- When Character Determines What Happens Next
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Rock N Roll Politics
Moving Closer to the Cliff's Edge
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part 4
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The Cliff's Edge Part 3
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part Two
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Episode 18
Brexit -The Cliff's Edge Part 1
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Rock N Roll Politics Episode 16
George Osborne, Polly Toynbee and BBC assumptions
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Rock N Roll Politics Episode 15
Brexit and the 'betrayal' narrative
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Rock N Roll Politics-- Episode 14
Boris Johnson' and the Prime Ministers We Never Had
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