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 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.
4 min
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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...
46 min
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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...
43 min
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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.
23 min
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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...
20 min
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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...
24 min
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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...
22 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The New Political Landscape
29 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
Boris, Brexit and a Hung Parliament
34 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
B Johnson becomes PM
22 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
Series 2- Episode 2
28 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics-th...
Tory Leadership Special
29 min
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Steve Richards presents Rock N Roll Politics
Brexit- When Character Determines What Happens Next
27 min
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Rock N Roll Politics
Moving Closer to the Cliff's Edge
29 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part 4
30 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part 3
24 min
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part Two
28 min
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Episode 18
Brexit -The Cliff's Edge Part 1
17 min
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Rock N Roll Politics Episode 16
George Osborne, Polly Toynbee and BBC assumptions
25 min
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Rock N Roll Politics Episode 15
Brexit and the 'betrayal' narrative
25 min
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Rock N Roll Politics-- Episode 14
Boris Johnson' and the Prime Ministers We Never Had
23 min
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Rock N Roll Politics- Episode 13
Brexit/Labour/The Hidden Divide in Uk Politics
23 min
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Episode 12
Andrew Adonis Live at Politics Festival
71 min
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Episode 11
A New Party?
69 min