Aye Right Radio Podcast
360 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Mostly Scottish politics
Mostly opinions by Norrie Stewart, Jimmy Hutton, Stewart Lochhead, Phil Attridge
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Aye Right Podcast # 280 Season 2 Closet Republican
December 07, 2020 14:57 - 39 minutes - 29.4 MBIt’s the eve of Vaccination Day, the first day of the end of the pandemic (we hope), and the Scottish Government top team appeared at today’s Covid press briefing. The First Minister, the Health Secretary and the Chief Medical Officer radiated a Xmas Eve spirit of expectation. The press wanted early details of any changes to the tiers of Covid restrictions and got none plus more on the roll-out of the vaccination programme, which they got. Our papers review include Stephen Paton in the ...
Aye Right Podcast # 279 Season 2 Wheesht for Indy
December 06, 2020 15:05 - 43 minutes - 32.2 MBWe managed a remarkable amount of comment on the Sunday morning TV (and radio) which starred Gary Robertson, BBC Radio Scotland morning news anchor, and another useless Tory Minister, George Eustice. We rebut a London Times story about Scotland being too poor to be independent by David Smith (who?). Gerry Hassan gets some support and is exposed again as a chronic Labour supporter. Mike Russel tells us many times in the National to ‘Wheesht for Indy’.
Aye Right Podcast # 278 Season 2
December 04, 2020 15:43 - 46 minutes - 34.2 MBDFM John Swinney took the podium at today’s press briefing. Vaccinations, schools and travel freedom from quarantine / social isolation for elites dominated the presser and our commentary. We also reviewed Joanna Cherry’s article in the National and even managed a bit about the new YES ALBA steering committee make-up.
Aye Right Podcast # 277 Season 2
December 03, 2020 14:53 - 44 minutes - 33.5 MBComment on Alyn Smith OK? Nicola Sturgeon at FMQs .. ‘Phew! Vaccination Questions. Easy peasy’. We learnt more about the Covid jab logistics than UK media have provided. Schools Xmas holidays, exams under Covid, taxi drivers and grouse shooting featured. We then went on to discuss the reaction to the petulant article by Alyn Smith MP and other implications of the SNP NEC changes (don’t call it a revolution) especially a very good article by Lesley Riddoch. And finally we view a BBC rebu...
Aye Right Podcast # 276 Season 2
December 01, 2020 15:13 - 37 minutes - 28.2 MBBand of Brexiteers The harassment inquiry, the SNP NEC revolution and the SNP Conference speech by FM Nicola Sturgeon kept us busy today.
Aye Right Podcast # 275 Season 2
November 30, 2020 14:40 - 32 minutes - 23.8 MBSt Andrews Day The shortest press briefing with the least controversy and the anticipated SNP Conference speech by FM Nicola Sturgeon still to come dominated our show today. No real clues were revealed about the Tuesday Covid levels review. Any date for a vaccination programme launch is speculative. Pilot testing of asymptomatic people has begun. Jason Leitch is not trying to kill off old folks but Mark McLaughlin of the London Times is still our top hack hyena. Will there be major chan...
Aye Right Podcast # 274 Season 2
November 29, 2020 14:45 - 48 minutes - 35.5 MBSunday at Conference The FM was ‘grilled’ on Marr, Martin Geissler had Mike Russel MSP and David Duguid MP on Politics Scotland plus Stewart watched the constitution debate at the SNP Conference. Jimmy came and went and ended the show with trans issues on his mind.
Aye Right Podcast # 273 Season 2
November 27, 2020 15:06 - 53 minutes - 40 MBThe Good the Bad and the Wokey The ‘SNP Goodguys’ and the woke contingent make an entrance today after a short Covid press briefing report. The SNP Conference dominates the show plus a fringe event-- The ‘Scottish Currency Group Conference’ which will discuss popular motions pushed aside by the SNP organisers. Also mentioned are Matt Hancock, Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond, Joanna Cherry, Iain Lawson, Robin McAlpine, Boris Johnson.
Aye Right Podcast # 272 Season 2
November 26, 2020 15:06 - 58 minutes - 43.3 MBTears for Tiers UK Health Minister Matt Hancock announced the new Covid rules for England to follow the end of lockdown by revealing where the tiers would apply and the impact the rules would have in each tier. At FMQs FM Sturgeon was under attack by Ruth Davidson over the Harassment Inquiry and by Richard Leonard over the care home covid deaths tragedy. The SNP internal spat between the establishment represented by Pete Wishart and Alyn Smith and the opposition gets discussed, ...
Aye Right Podcast # 271 Season 2
November 25, 2020 14:49 - 45 minutes - 33.4 MBPete Wishart is the News... PM Johnson can’t even make a success of a virtual PMQs from the security of his cupboard, gets censured by the speaker and even admits the corruption of his ministers to Keir Starmer. At her daily presser FM Sturgeon revealed the details of the Xmas Covid ‘holiday’ break which she then told us not to take..‘Bide in’ Norrie reports on Rishi Sunak’s spending plans then Jimmy and Stewart join in to discuss...Peter Wishart, Stuart Campbell, Henry McLei...
Aye Right Podcast # 269 Season 2
November 23, 2020 14:53 - 35 minutes - 26.6 MBTaxi for Jimmy Care Homes, Schools and Xmas were the hacks obsessions today at the Covid Briefing. ‘I’m not going to speculate’ ‘I’m not going to comment on an email I haven’t read’ said the FM, as the hyenas (sorry cream of the Scottish press) attempted to put words in her mouth. The suicide of Labour in Scotland gets discussed plus an excellent Ruth Wishart article roasting the Unionists.
Aye Right Podcast # 268 Season 2
November 22, 2020 15:00 - 42 minutes - 31.6 MBSNP2020 - Preview With the SNP annual conference next weekend Norrie and Stewart discuss the run-up. Joanna Cherry fronts a group associated with Common Weal proposing a slate of new NEC members. The rest of the show, on a quiet day, has us ranging over connected issues including… The Lockerbie bombing, Iain Lawson, Alex Salmond, Peter A Bell, Kevin McKenna, Rishi Sunak, Iain MacWhirter, MMT, CRG, Dross, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove…..
Aye Radio Radio podcast 267. Peter Curran - Devolution Attack
November 21, 2020 12:03 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MBPeter Curran – Devolution Attack On the telephone Stewart interviews writer Peter Curran @Moridura about his response to the attack on Scottish devolution. The SNP doesn’t come out well and also is mentioned… GERS, the economy, @George_Osborne @AlexSalmond @NeilMacKay @SluggerOToole and the 77th.Brigade
Aye Right Podcast # 266 Season 2
November 20, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutes - 33.3 MBIs Sturgeon a Devolutionist? At today’s press briefing there was some comforting news from Chief Scientific Officer Jason Leitch and FM Nicola Sturgeon about vaccines, the virus management in schools and hospitals and also the limited places where transmission takes place. Norry and Stewart then discuss further fall-out from Johnson’s ‘devolution is a disaster north of the border’ outburst. Gordon Brown plus the London commentariat have their go at it and it turns out that Nicola Sturge...
Aye Right Podcast # 265 Season 2
November 19, 2020 14:57 - 46 minutes - 34.2 MBLegal Travel Ban It was noisy at the back of the Holyrood chamber during FMQs today but the Presiding Officer was lenient. The consequences of the legal travel ban and the definition of an ‘essential journey’ were highlights and the FM enjoyed quoting the First Minister of Wales back to Richard Leonard @LabourRichard . The fall-out from last Saturday's AUOB Assembly continues with our view of the reactions of @GeorgeKerevan , Mike Small and Peter A Bell @BerthanPete @Richar...
Aye Right Podcast # 264 Season 2
November 18, 2020 14:41 - 38 minutes - 28.6 MBMike Stevenson Thinktastic At FMQs the FM was keen to highlight the report from Public Health Scotland about Covid and schools. Extra details of the new Level4 restrictions were also clarified. Some sort of UK wide Xmas relaxation is coming but exactly what is not yet clear. Norry reports on the virtual PMQs which allowed the PM to use a hidden autocue (made that up). A Mike Stevenson interview follows after the PM announcement that ‘Scottish devolution is a disaster’.
Aye Right Podcast # 263 Season 2
November 16, 2020 14:47 - 47 minutes - 34.4 MBLevel 4 Speculation Jimmy has strong opinions on the FM today as he joins Stewart and Norry to discuss the pandemic restrictions then we have Peter A Bell reporting on the AUOB Assembly. We finish with more from Jimmy about the upcoming SNP Conference and next May’s Holyrood election.
Aye Right Podcast # 262 Season 2
November 15, 2020 14:36 - 41 minutes - 30.9 MBAUOB Assembly Reports on the AUOB Assembly to map the future of the YES movement and to form an organising structure dominate today’s show followed by the usual reports on the Sunday morning politics TV shows. Then a final view on the future of PM Johnson following the removal of Dominic Cummings from No10.
Aye Right Podcast # 261 Season 2
November 13, 2020 15:04 - 48 minutes - 35.7 MBCelebrating a Scotland Win The Deputy FM, John Swinney, took the podium to answer for the Scottish Government and NOT the SNP as he scolded a tabloid hack at the press briefing. Lockdown level restrictions might be coming for some areas of Scotland. Changes of testing and quarantine periods were mentioned. The impact of Covid in Winter and especially over Xmas upon the NHS is a concern. An article by Joanna Cherry in the National where she challenges Alan Smyth’s position l...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 260
November 12, 2020 15:37 - 49 minutes - 36.6 MBBoris Puppet Masters We discuss In no particular order today, with Jimmy, Stewart and Norry all present….. Test & Protect, Long Covid, Hospitality, Beer, No.10 puppet masters, Spycops, Excess Covid deaths, John Major, Martin Bashir, Lady Diana, INEOS Grangemouth, Trump…… And mine’s a Double Referendum.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 259
November 11, 2020 14:49 - 39 minutes - 29.2 MBVaccine Excitement Two days of Covid reports plus a PMQs, SNP bitchin and a bit of Trump sums up today's show.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 258
November 10, 2020 14:17 - 37 minutes - 27.2 MBCummings Whitty Row As we await the announcement of any Protection Level changes by the First Minister, the world continues to turn. A new poll supports an SNP/Green coalition majority as sufficient mandate for Indyref2. Former PM John Major suggests a double Indyref2 model and upsets Norry, There’s about 50 days left until final Brexit Day so we cover that. A huge row has broken out between Dominic Cummings and Chris Whitty over tests and self-isolation periods. Russia and China are ‘m...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 257
November 09, 2020 14:43 - 36 minutes - 27.3 MBTodays press briefing trailed tomorrow’s review of the protection levels, but all we got was ‘wait and see’. We have an interview with Peter A Bell. It’s about his article ( https://peterabell.scot/2020/11/08/for-the-sake-of-scotland/ ) on the AUOB online Assembly coming up on Saturday 14th. ( https://auob.org/assemblyregistration ) Three different treatments of the same spy story get covered and we finish with a delightful advert for a calendar.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 256
November 08, 2020 14:57 - 41 minutes - 31 MBBiden and Holyrood 2021 We range through the Biden win and it’s consequences. Then the Sophie Ridge show covers the impact on the UK plus the impending Brexit deadline and the delayed UK budget/spending plans. We wind up by discussing the timetable running backwards from the Holyrood May 2021 election focussing on a useful article by Peter A Bell today.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 255
November 06, 2020 14:49 - 41 minutes - 31 MBCitizen Assebly The FM presented the Friday presser, not John Swinney as anticipated, probably because she was at work anyway presiding over the British Irish Council. The pandemic figures were quite good with a plateau level reached, probably allowing some relaxation of rules. We were assured that social distancing would still be practiced during the May 2021 Holyrood election. Norry and Stewart disagreed about the Robin McAlpine proposals for a Citizen Assembly. We ex...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 254.
November 05, 2020 14:47 - 44 minutes - 33.4 MBUp in Smoke It’s Norry, Stewart and Jimmy today. Was the FM unprepared to respond to an NHS report by the Royal Colleges? Maybe she was just showing signs of stress or anxiety at FMQs? She probably needs a break. Rishi Sunak bowed to the inevitable and U-turned again so that his Furlough Policy went ‘up in smoke’. SNP internal shenanigans get a decent outing. A unionist extremist may have revealed the SNP gradualists ‘secret plan’.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 253
November 04, 2020 15:06 - 50 minutes - 37.3 MBAmerican Election Day The FM faced a cosy Holyrood committee on Covid before meeting the press today...Mass testing, regional issues and travel restrictions dominated both. The release by lawyers for Alex Salmond of 150 pages of crucial documents to the Holyrood Inquiry gets Stewart going. Norry completes the show with an in depth analysis of the US presidential election….
Aye Right Radio Podcast 252
November 03, 2020 15:35 - 35 minutes - 26.7 MB“Only a fool rules out anything in a pandemic” FM Sturgeon. At least half the questions at the press briefing were about the uncertainty surrounding the furlough scheme as we go to publish. An on-air BBC Radio Scotland News could face an Ofcom inquiry after ambushing the FM while she was broadcasting live and then asking an unanswerable question. The Holyrood inquiry into the Salmond affair revealed Paul Cackette to be a nervous legal officer every time the Lord Advocate was mention...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 251
November 02, 2020 14:49 - 40 minutes - 29.7 MBFlexible Furlough Will Rishi Sunak make furlough flexible? Will he say YES to the FMs of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland or diss them all?Has Stuart Cosgrove gone Off The Ball and upset too many Scottish hacks?Is DRoss electioneering? (of course he is).Are elections in the UK fair and is the Electoral Commission toothless?
Aye Right Radio Podcast
November 01, 2020 15:41 - 49 minutes - 36.3 MBPhil Attridge Interview Sunday politics TV shows get discussed after the ramifications of the England Covid lockdown. Topics covered include furlough, DRoss, Gove, Starmer, Corbyn, FIFA, Indypoll, AUOB, Trump. We finish with a Labourite Phil Attridge phone interview.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 249
October 30, 2020 15:13 - 35 minutes - 26.2 MBTransit With a Sofa in the Back Stewart Lochhead and Norry Stewart discuss……. DFM John Swinney delivered the Covid press briefing and a few junior reporters turned up…. Incubation, Immunity and Mutation were all explained by Jason Leitch…. The Starmer suspension of Corbyn from the Labour party over anti-semetism gets a roasting…. A new Indy poll headlines 56% for YES and we drill down into the interesting details as does Stuart Campbell who links to the awful SNP decision to ban any de...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 248
October 29, 2020 15:21 - 46 minutes - 34.3 MBRadge in the Cheap Seats It’s a big magazine show today with Jimmy , Stewart and Norry….. The care homes report dominated FMQs...The new Covid management system of levels announced by the FM gets analysed/roasted….Then the gormless Oliver Mundell asked the radge question from the cheap seats about the Salmond Inquiry (or is that the Sturgeon Inquiry now?) and lies to the inquiry by senior civil servants get covered…. Gordon Brewers’s last BBC show gained personal tributes and an excl...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 247
October 28, 2020 14:10 - 36 minutes - 26.5 MBCare Homes Report. The press briefing was bad tempered and focussed on the Public Health Scotland report into discharges from hospitals to care homes….The report failed to blame anyone and the hacks had already decided the FM was guilty…. Norry defends care homes at length…. We also touch on the details of the new Covid restriction levels, SNP troubles and a positive case for independence made by Iain Lawson.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 246
October 27, 2020 15:10 - 41 minutes - 30.5 MBShe says you are so Aye Right Studio Episode The Salmond Inquiry gets a forensic review and even Jackie Baillie is praised. The unbelievable invisible witness Judith MacKinnon, who has no social media presence, gets special treatment to protect her from harassment on social media. The other witness Barbara Allison got gasps of doubt trying to explain why she can find every text message she wants except the one about ‘losing the battle but …still winning the war’ from Permanent Secretary...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 245
October 26, 2020 14:59 - 41 minutes - 26 MBBrewer’s SwansongThe shape of the pandemic management system in hello good timing Scotland is almost clear. After a debate at Holyrood on Tuesday the content of the levels and where they will apply will be revealed by the FM…. At today’s presser the hacks were after blood and some had already written their headlines….We say goodbye to Gordon Brewer who got frustrated with Alister Union Jack “Not your greatest hits again”….Ben McPherson MSP has been ignored seven times by Priti Patel ove...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 244
October 23, 2020 14:29 - 46 minutes - 34.2 MBFive Levels Not Tiers The strategic framework was outlined by the FM today and crucially it’s different from England with five levels of increasing restrictions..... Tory Chancellor Sunak has denied parity of financial support to business in Scotland compared to England..... The Scottish journalist community got upset at scrutiny by the public over their tabloid hack habits in particular for publishing a false quote by a senior civil servant..... The open debates in the SNP party suppli...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 243
October 22, 2020 13:46 - 44 minutes - 32.3 MB“He Hates the English. Rishi Sunak ‘revised’ his Covid support and we review that plus the reaction of Labour rising star Anneliese Dodds. Norry fails to see what’s wrong with Angela Rayner calling a Tory MP ‘SCUM’ as it’s an acronym for Scottish Conservative Unionist Mp. DRoss gets roasted (again) for hypocrisy after proudly using his dinner lady mum to support free school meals in Scotland yet failing to vote for them in England. Norry reckons he must “Hate the English” Lesl...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 242
October 21, 2020 13:58 - 43 minutes - 31.5 MBAct Early and Firmer PMQs ...The PM matched Starmer today arguing about the money for business and job support. Presser...The FM outlined her 5 level strategic framework (like Ireland) after revealing desperately worrying Covid figures including the highest death rate since May 2nd. We then range across a variety of connected topics including;...Tory power grabs from Councils AND devolved nations...a spoiler referendum on DEVO...a Covid study about human compliance and risk...UK more co...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 241
October 20, 2020 13:55 - 41 minutes - 30.1 MBSeminars for Hacks. At the presser we learned a lot about Scottish Government thinking behind the pandemic management today. A self-aware FM said they were providing seminars not just answers for the journalists. Norry roasts DRoss and Tricky Leonard’s attacks on the ScotGov. We highlight Oliver Mundell’s farming problems and the ‘war-gaming’ Tories reaction to a 58% YES poll. We have three video clips; a Gove/May ‘lovein’; very senior Judge Lord Hope savaging the Internal Market Bill; ...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 240
October 19, 2020 14:06 - 49 minutes - 37.1 MBFuture Shape of Scotland A short press briefing had hacks trolling for headlines. ‘Your F.A.C.T.S message is too complex” says Jack Frost. ‘Only coz you lot aren’t doing your job’ says the FM. ‘Your stuck with a failed UK test system aren’t you?’ says Conor Matchet. ‘Are you going to shut the schools?’ ‘Will the Police get info about people self isolationing. Then we follow with a bad tempered ‘debate’ about Andrew Wilson, Ben Wray, Mike Small, George Kerevan and Ruth Wishart about what...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 239
October 18, 2020 13:57 - 44 minutes - 32.7 MBBrewer Fails Marr Too Gove attracts Norry’s exasperation on Marr and the anodyne Brewer show annoys Stewart. Gerry Hassan gets a forensic attack by both for his Sunday National article. Iain MacWhirter gets a sore bottom again as his equivocal Sunday Herald article reveals the difference since Paul Hutcheon left.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 238.
October 15, 2020 15:49 - 40 minutes - 29.6 MBA virtual FMQs because it’s ‘recess’ at Holyrood began badly for Ruth.. Her virtual link was faulty.. None of the party leaders seriously challenged the FM who began with a lot of detail in respect of what to expect about the pandemic over the next months. Our other topics today included:- Covid travel bans.. Union Jackery.. ‘Wet pubs’ and what a Level4 might include.. The impact of the 58% YES poll in England.. BBC running an SNPBaad Blackpool story undermining the public health messag...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 237
October 14, 2020 13:51 - 40 minutes - 30.4 MBYES Reaches 58% PMQs….Keir and Boris spar over the ‘circuit break’ ‘he’s been an opportunist all his life’ ‘he wants to close down business and the country’ ‘the PM will back a circuit break in 2 weeks’ Result - Score draw Press Briefing….The pandemic accelerates Travel restrictions are major issue The FM would ban Old Firm fans on coaches to Blackpool A UK4 agreement on travel wanted POLL….YES for Indy reaches 58% , the FM avoids a comment BUT says ‘people w...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 236
October 13, 2020 13:52 - 49 minutes - 36.9 MBCommission of Diligence Today’s presser focussed on the impact of the 3 tiers England system on Scotland and hacks still unhappy about Covid testing and hospitality restrictions. We also cover the comparison between the management of the pandemic in Scotland and England. We touch on the effect of Brexit and other Tory government plans upon the professions eg. Legal, medical, financial. We finish with the effect of recent Salmond inquiry revelations on the future prospects for in...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 235
October 12, 2020 13:57 - 42 minutes - 31.2 MBShowing Elevated Stress Press Briefing After a UK4 COBRA meeting a 3 tier alert system seems likely to align with Scotland. Covid will become endemic, coach travel is a transmission risk, the hacks are still obsessed with a cafe V restaurant distinction, don’t make Xmas plans yet BUT if you take your medicine now Santa Nicola might bring you a present. Asked about Salmond inquiry questions on TV and displaying ‘elevated stress’ the FM said ‘I can't control TV questions’....
Aye Right Radio Podcast 234
October 11, 2020 13:59 - 35 minutes - 26.1 MBNicola on Sophie Ridge The Lord Advocate, James Wolfe, may have taken on Twitter by his latest attack on Craig Murray. The FM had a dreadful interview with Sophie Ridge on SKY News. Even Tory leaders in the North of England are challenging the UK Government. The latest Survation poll of Scottish intentions gets roasted, The SNP careerists and carpetbaggers issue has an airing and the upcoming conference is highlighted.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 233
October 09, 2020 13:57 - 47 minutes - 35 MBNew Restrictions - Cafe V Restaraunt PRESS BRIEFING We got details of the Central Belt ‘local lockdown-lite’ and the Scotland wide restrictions from the FM and a chorus of hacks wanting a definition of a cafe. What about BYOB? Norry clarifies licences. Details of business support depends on the Chancellor. There was some light-hearted banter ‘define a Jaffa cake’ , ‘will you cancel the Old Firm match?’ Having heart failure is the highest risk if you catch Covid. Com...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 232
October 08, 2020 13:53 - 40 minutes - 30.7 MBFMQs: Virus and Inquiry Ruth wanted to avoid talking about the virus and Nicola wanted to avoid talking about the inquiry. So Ruth attacked the FM’s veracity but Nicola retorted “One minute you suggest I’m in a conspiracy against Alex then the next I'm colluding with him” Mentioned by us were; Lesley Evans, Geof Aberdein, Paul Hutcheon, Neil McKay, Kate Forbes, Alex Burnett, Patrick Harvie, Pauline McNeil, Anas Sarwar.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 231
October 07, 2020 15:51 - 59 minutes - 44.4 MBCovid Statement – Sturgeon – Salmond Inquiry It’s not a lockdown but it’s brutal and give up the booze. Salmond inquiry revelations get Norry and Jimmy going – at length. And a little bit of Prime Minister’s questions.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 230
October 06, 2020 13:38 - 44 minutes - 32.6 MBWe Are Not Going Back to March The FM kept us waiting a bit more, probably waiting for Treasury cash, to announce the new pandemic restrictions due to be in force from Friday. She told us that ‘we are not going back to March’ so that it’s not going to be a return to lockdown, there won’t be a travel ban, the schools will stay open and the NHS will cope without cancellations of routines. The SUN hack, Christine Lavelle, got skelped again for LYING. Listen in for that. Other issue...