Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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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. Subscr...
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Why is Labour's deputy leadership contest more significant than it seems?
The post of deputy leader is ill-defined at best. Yet delving deep, and going back to contests in the 1970s, shows they change the course of Labour's...
Are the Conservatives doomed?
The Conservative Party conference gathers with the party way behind in third place and being hit by defections to Reform, a threat from the right they...
Can Starmer beat Farage?
The Labour Party conference is in a febrile mood – there's much talk of leadership, and also of Farage. Can Starmer bring together those horrified by...
Are the Liberal Democrats a centre-left party?
Who are the Liberal Democrats? The coalition years exposed a deep split between social democrats and free market liberals. Are those divisions healed?...
What are the lessons of the Mandelson saga?
Predictably, Peter Mandelson's return to the centre of the political stage has ended in crisis. Mandelson's influence on Keir Starmer grew after Labou...
Will Keir Starmer's changes revive Labour?
Keir Starmer has kept more or less the same Cabinet but given most of them new jobs. Will it work as Reform UK soars in the polls?
Will Starmer's reset make a difference?
With Labour languishing in the polls, Keir Starmer has reshuffled his top team… yet again. His leadership has been punctuated by changes in senior per...
Rock & Roll Politics Live at the Edinburgh Festival
Here’s a recording of the final show at this year’s festival, where there was a different show every day. The final one looked ahead via four politica...
What's been happening at the Edinburgh Festival?
The run of Rock & Roll Politics shows is in full swing, with host Steve Richards delivering a different show each day.
Here's an update...
For all the storms, is Labour heading for a second term?
The Labour government has endured a traumatic first year on many fronts, but its opponents are in different ways extremely vulnerable. If its opponent...
Is Labour Delivering on Transport?
In a Question Time Special the Rock N Roll Politics co-operative reflects on the 'pause' of some rail electrification schemes, the degree to which the...
What does Britain get from 'The Special Relationship' with the US?
Keir Starmer drops everything to meet Trump on the President's golfing holiday, but to what end? Post-war Prime Ministers, with two exceptions, assume...
Water Privatisation - why is Margaret Thatcher still deified?
The rushed water privatisation after the 1987 election was one of several calamitous policies launched by Margaret Thatcher –with the consequences sti...
Can the government find a more effective media strategy?
Number 10’s media strategy is fairly old-fashioned: the morning round for the broadcasters, interviews with the TV political editors and placing artic...
How deep a hole is Keir Starmer in?
Normally media frenzies exaggerate the scale of a government crisis - a distorting frenzy that feeds on itself. But this time, has it played down the...
Can Keir Starmer learn the lessons from the welfare shambles?
Labour MPs flex their muscles, the government concedes, welfare reform is still in chaos and taxes will have to rise to pay for concessions. How has a...
Trump strikes Iran – What will be the consequences?
Not for the first time, a US military intervention triggers greater instability and many questions about what follows. It’s time for the co-operative...
How does a government communicate to disillusioned voters?
Rachel Reeves’ spending review was a mixed bag, with some impossibly tight spending settlements combined with significant investment. But will voters...
What does Sarah Vine’s book tell us about the crisis in the Conservative Party?
Sarah Vine, the journalist and former wife of Michael Gove, has written a book that partly chronicles their lives in the court of David Cameron and th...
What is the key ingredient that makes a leader stronger?
Keir Starmer is an evasive leader but on one point he is clear: he is a pragmatist, has no time for ideology and there will be no ‘Starmerism’. But wi...
Are there dark echoes from a distant Labour government?
While researching the 1929 Labour government for a new book I found myself thinking repeatedly “this reminds me of now”. The yearning to follow econom...
In conversation with Michael Heseltine
I spoke to Michael Heseltine at the Cambridge Literary Festival about his remarkable career, how he would have changed the Tory party’s approach to Eu...
Can The Tories survive?
The Labour government has signed a deal with the EU that brings significant improvements to the agreement negotiated by Johnson and Lord Frosty Frost…...
Who will win the battle of the UK’s borders?
Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper have played their migration cards, but will they be enough to counter Farage’s populist policies? Will they work in pra...
Do Starmer and co know what they mean by ‘change’ and ‘reform’?
Labour was elected to deliver ‘change’ but Starmer, Reeves and Morgan McSweeney have been cautious and vague about their ambition to move on from the...
Is the Government moving closer to Europe?
There is a big UK/EU summit in May which ministers are confident will be a significant event – and not just a talking shop. Meanwhile Rachel Reeves ha...
Why are the right targeting Ed Miliband?
The right are obsessed with Miliband and his zeal for net zero policies, but is there any basis for the argument that his net zero policies threaten e...
With Farage backing steel nationalisation, is public ownership back in fashion?
For decades nationalisation was the great taboo in British politics, while privatisation was deemed the great triumph of Thatcherism. Blair and Brown...
Will Brexit Britain flourish in the New World Order?
Is there a hint of British exceptionalism in the early days of the Trump-induced economic crisis? Apparently the UK got off lightly, while Keir Starme...
How long will Trump’s ‘love’ of tariffs last?
Trump has said ‘tariff’ is his favourite word, but will US consumers agree with him when prices rise? Plus - does the UK need a Department for Economi...
Is Rachel Reeves trapped by her fiscal rules?
This week Rachel Reeves announces more spending cuts in order to meet her fiscal rules, and the OBR’s verdict on her ‘fiscal headroom’. But what was t...
Is Wes Streeting taking back control?
The decision to scrap NHS England is a rare example of clear thinking in relation to delivery of public services. Can such clarity be applied more wid...
Can Rachel Reeves slash welfare spending?
Rachel Reeves is looking to save billions from the welfare budget. What are the lessons from New Labour’s attempts to cut welfare and what is the purp...
What will it mean to have ‘boots on the ground’?
Keir Starmer is enjoying his best media coverage since the election – but the UK commentariat always hails the appearance of ‘strong leadership’ durin...
Can Keir Starmer be the ‘bridge’ between Europe and Trump?
The moving parts in the international crisis continue to move. Macron and Starmer in Washington, a new government to form in Germany and Trump never f...
Is Europe heading for war with Russia?
Trump has instigated peace talks with Putin. The UK, France and Germany are alarmed, but what did they expect? And in their responses are they making...
Who are the ‘incumbent disrupters’ in Keir Starmer’s government?
The new fashionable term in politics is ‘disrupter’ or ‘insurgent’. Morgan McSweeney briefs that the government must be insurgents, but does he mean i...
Is Rachel Reeves an accidental risk taker?
The chancellor hails her fiscal rules and iron resolution, but in her search for stability is she taking routes that are riskier than they appear to b...
Can a cautious government achieve economic growth?
Rachel Reeves is going for growth, but will she succeed? Plus, as Channel 4 screen James Graham’s new drama on Brian Walden’s last interview with Marg...
Trump is back. What are the lessons for Starmer?
Trump has won again as a disruptor, reflecting the mood of an impatient electorate aching for change. Starmer won the election last year arguing for ‘...