steve richards
@steverichards14
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Steve Richards presents the Rock N Roll Politics podcast: https://t.co/yX54EZioTa He's also an author and broadcaster
London UK
Joined June 2010
My new book 'Turning Points-Crisis and Change in Modern Britain from 1945 to Truss' is out on Sept 21st. What are the turning points and did the UK turn? Available for pre order here and elsewhere: https://t.co/OdZyyIjEGz
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8 guests in an hour…again…no wonder so many turning to podcasts.
On Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (with me tomorrow).. Energy & Net Zero Sec Ed Miliband Green leader of Eng & Wales Zack Polanski Shadow Energy Sec Clare Coutinho Toby Jones David Harewood Former head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg Emily Maitlis Adil Ray See you at 9am @BBCOne
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In which the audience becomes Rachel Reeves … and I am Emma Barnett:
Latest RocknRoll Politics podcast- The latest live show: https://t.co/iYt4CMA1lS
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The BBC’s departure from a commitment to political balance, continually leaning to the right, is a growing concern. Last night’s Question Time. Tonight’s panel on Newsnight. Kuennsberg and Mason. Progressive voices treated as idiosyncratic oddities. We all pay the licence fee.
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I’ve weighed in via @unherd on the BBC’s latest history offerings, with praise for A. J. P. Taylor, 1960s documentaries about Coventry, and @TheRestHistory
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The news that BBC Factual has announced five new history commissions has not been met with unalloyed approbation. Viewers are to be treated to documentaries on Idi Amin, Islamic State, and the life...
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Latest RocknRoll Politics podcast- The latest live show: https://t.co/iYt4CMA1lS
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Podcast Episode · Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards · 17/10/2025 · 52m
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Two Conservatives:
Tonight, Question Time is in Bishop's Stortford Joining Fiona on the panel are Heidi Alexander, Helen Whately, Lisa Smart, Ash Sarkar, and Matthew Syed Watch at 9pm on the @BBCNews channel, @BBCiPlayer & @BBCSounds, or @BBCOne at 10:40pm #bbcqt
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Beginning to look like a CPS cock-up
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Latest RocknRoll Politics podcast- https://t.co/fJOIs2JpgF
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Podcast Episode · Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards · 14/10/2025 · 41m
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Latest @NewStatesman column- By misreading the past Rachel Reeves’ budget becomes a nightmare over ‘trust’:
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By misreading the past, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch are being hobbled in the present
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You can’t be an effective party for successful people in midlife (sort of the *point* of the Tory party ultimately) if you are at odds with them over the most consequential thing you did in office. This week’s column:
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The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea
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Latest @NewStatesman column- By misreading the past Rachel Reeves’ budget becomes a nightmare over ‘trust’:
newstatesman.com
By misreading the past, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch are being hobbled in the present
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Latest RocknRoll Politics podcast- https://t.co/fJOIs2JpgF
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards · 14/10/2025 · 41m
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Eight guests in an hour-
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Even when the govt shuts down, they keep printing They print, We Stack A currency Debasement Hedge Reshare if you agree STKd 100% Bitcoin & 100% Gold ETF (BTGD)
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The right wing bias of these @BBCNewsnight panels is quite something…smart insiders in despair too. ..only hope is that the discussions are so short no one can say anything that can make a mark.
What an appalling episode of Newsnight that was. No “news”, just a bunch of mainly rightwing talking heads (poor Richard Bacon isolated) invited on to reel off pub bore takes about news. Time this wretched programme was axed, content like this can only make people less informed
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Taking back control:
EU entry-exit system starts on Sunday morning. Travel leader @jlo_said warns on @BBCr4today that queues on arrival could stretch to 3-4 hours: "You may be going for a concert, you may be going for a meeting, you may be going for a wedding, for a cruise." https://t.co/DM5lF9quSw
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Wilson winning a tiny majority on epic challenges ahead…Is current crisis even more severe? No north sea oil about to appear ( lucky Thatcher..who wasted much of the revenue) ..and out of Europe.
#OTD 1974. Election. Winning a majority of 3, Harold Wilson says “Britain faces the gravest economic crisis since the war. He says the next two years will be a “hard slog” for the British people dealing with cost of living, an energy crisis, trade with Europe and unemployment.
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Kemi Badenoch is a good speaker.. much better that Robert Jenrick…The contents of her speech convey an underlying panic triggered by the terrible polls and Reform.. but she looked relaxed ..her laughter that punctuated the speech felt natural. Being a good speaker matters a lot
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Latest RocknRoll Politics- Will The Tories Outlast Reform?
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Podcast Episode · Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards · 07/10/2025 · 36m
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In his 90s Michael Heseltine is the great Tory moderniser.. They should make him leader:
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are.” @vicderbyshire asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight
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The BBC would never do this to a leader on the right… they’d be too frightened of a Daily Mail front page etc.
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: https://t.co/Q27Jy5fuX7
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