Steve Richards is a British TV presenter and political columnist who has written for the Guardian, Independent, News Statesman and Spectator. An insightful observer of the British political scene, he has produced many television talks on influential political leaders and major political turning points. Mr Richards regularly presents Radio 4’s Week in Westminster and hosts a vibrant one man stand up show called Rock & Roll Politics. He has written numerous books, including his latest The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn, which was awarded Book of the Year by The Times, The Guardian and Prospect.

Events participated in:

What Next for Britain and America?: Steve Richards in conversation with Tim Phillips and guests as they explore the impact of the recent general election on Britain and the forthcoming US Presidential elections. (2024)

Turning Points in Modern Britain: Join Steve Richards and Jack McConnell for a discussion on his latest book Turning Points in Modern Britan, from 1945 to Truss leading to two big questions – Is Scotland at a turning point with the SNP crisis? Is the UK at a turning point with Labour set to win the general election? (2023)

Ukraine: One Year On: Join Steve Richards as he listens to Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum and BBC Lucy Ash’s dispatches from the frontline of the Ukrainian war, while Professor Marc Weller considers how to resolve a conflict. (2023)

From Kabul to Kyiv: A Year in Global Politics: Join Steve Richardsas he talks to AndriyShevchenko, *Head of the Ukrainian Media Centre, about war in Ukraine, Brian Brivati, about his new book Losing Afghanistan, and University of St Andrews’ Professor Phillips O’Brien. (2022)

Rock & Roll Politics: Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and political commentator Steve Richards delves into the twists and turns of British politics. (2022)

Politics and Peacemaking: Where Next for Global Britain: Listen to Steve Richards as he quizzes Jonathan Powell about his role in helping to make peace around the world and his take on Brexit and the future of UK politics. (2021)

Prime Ministers We Never Had: Join Steve Richards as he talks about his newbook exploring the Shakespearean rise and fall of the Prime Ministers we never had. (2021)

Where Next for the United Kingdom?: Listen as political commentators Steve Richards, Sarah Smith, and Jim Naughtie explore the current state of affairs in UK politics and what it takes to lead this country. Magnus Linklater asks the questions. (2019)

Rock and Roll Politics: Steve Richards returns to Traquair to conduct a tour of the latest seismic political dramas, discovering why we are almost getting used toexpecting the unexpected. Politics even more shook up than last year. (2018)

The Rise of the Outsiders: Democratic Politics All Shook Up: From Brexit to Trump and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn widely held assumptions about politics are being challenged across the democratic world. Do the outsiders have much in common? The writer and broadcaster, Steve Richards, searches for answers and tries to make sense of a political world in turmoil. (2017)

Brexit and Beyond: Explore the future of the UK and Scotland in the wakeof Brexit with Professor John Curtice, Lord Karan Bilimoria, Bonnie Greer, and Steve Richards. (2017)

Rock and Roll Politics: Laugh with Steve Richards as he performs an excerpt from his Edinburgh Fringe show Rock ‘n’ Roll Politics. (2016)

Politics & Britain in 2015: Join Steve Richards with a prominent group of panellists including Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Sir Menzies Campbell as he takes a lighted-heartedlook at the 2015 General Election, Europe and whether the Jacobite spirit still endures in these Isles. (2015)

The State of the Union: Enjoy a more satirical view on the state of the Union and laugh with Steve Richards as he brings his award winning Fringe show to Traquair. (2014)

A Parallel Life: Join critic, playwright, and all-round public intellectual, Bonnie Greer, as she talks about her extraordinary memoir, A Parallel Life, in which she charts her journey from her childhood in the poverty stricken South Side of Chicago, through the 1960s in the civil rights movement, onto to her rise in Britain as one of this country’s leading cultural commentators. (2014)

Rock and Roll Politics: Award winning columnist and BBC broadcaster Steve Richards presents his Assembly show, a behind the scenes guide to all thelatest epic political and media dramas, from frenzied Tory plotting to the future of Scotland. Laugh, despair or hope as Cameron, Miliband, Clegg and Salmond struggle in a world all shook up. (2013)