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 Radio Podcast 229.
October 05, 2020 13:53 - 38 minutes - 27.3 MBWait and See Monday Resolution was short at today’s press press briefing. The temporal reset, AKA ‘Circuit Breaker’ measures, as she doesn’t like to call it, decisions depend on firstly the clinicians report due at a meeting this afternoon, secondly a UK four nations meeting (presumably about financial support for any lockdown) also today and then tomorrow morning a Scottish Cabinet meeting before a statement at Holyrood. Interesting briefing topics included, quarantining in Wale...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 228
October 04, 2020 13:51 - 47 minutes - 34.9 MBDRoss and Responsibility We cover Boris on Marr and ‘regional’ TV (it’s the Tory Conference you didn’t know). Margaret Ferrier gets roasted. The motives of Douglas Ross get examined and Peter A Bell has a theory about that. There’s a worry about Covid cases not fessing up about contacts. The Salmond affair gets an airing again. Huge subsidy for biomass electricity comes up too.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 227.
October 02, 2020 14:30 - 50 minutes - 36 MBMargaret Ferrier Press Briefing Today’s Coronavirus briefing was dominated by the hyena press pack baying about Margaret Ferrier MP who has the Covid virus. Not one hack expressed sympathy to the new sufferer. 775 new positive cases were reported which suggests that the 806 on Monday and the 714 last Saturday are not outliers. Back to the baying mob; London hacks joined the Scooish based regulars so it must be a crisis though not one raised the case of Dominic Cummings. I wonder why?...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 226.
October 01, 2020 14:35 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBTwilight of the UnionFMQs at Holyrood began with Part2 of a stunt cooked up by the Tories. Part1 was the Oliver Mundell ‘point of order’ in the chamber accusing the FM of lying to Parliament about documents for the Salmond Inquiry. For Part2 Ruth Davidson used all her questions to challenge the FM about the ‘missing documents’ and it got heated.Norry and Stewart also get heated about the issue. Listen in. Other FMQ issues included students, test lab closure, job losses and parlia...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 225.
September 30, 2020 13:50 - 44 minutes - 31.3 MBGold in the Braes We start with the Commons Speaker, Lyndsey Hoyle, reprimanding the Prime Minister over the Government’s misuse of decrees (AKA statutory instruments) to a Starmer win over Johnson at the main part of PMQs. The FM then announced some very poor pandemic figures. We go on to cover some useful commentary about the SNP including an incisive perspective of the state of the party by Kevin McKenna, a defence of the ‘wait and see’ policy of the management by Paul Kavan...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 224.
September 29, 2020 14:16 - 38 minutes - 28.4 MBMSM Roast Some Tories At the presser; Students and the virus dominated proceedings, The high virus figures from the weekend are not so bad when a daily average is examined, The FM gets annoyed and a bit political with the Mail, the Times and the Courier hacks. Is this a change since the BBC politicised the broadcast? Elsewhere; we cover the cost of tests, who pays for them?, Scottish water to England, problems facing the FM, the Crown Office and Lord Advocate James Wolfe....
Aye Right Radio Podcast 223.
September 28, 2020 14:10 - 52 minutes - 38 MBPolitical Battles Ahead Press briefing report----Students, restrictions, schools, circuit breaker?, whose fault? Holyrood election delay, plan B motion for SNP conference, when is it?, BBC SNPBaad show report, SNP candidate battles, Peter Murrell, Rhiannon Spear, Peter A Bell, Ruth Wishart, TRUMP.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 222
September 25, 2020 14:55 - 56 minutes - 41.2 MB1,000 Students in Quarantine Press Briefing Students stay out of the pub, students don’t go home to mummy, bars, curfews, house parties. FLU Vax, FLU & Covid, Police motto ‘Engage,Explain,Enforce’ Chancellor Sunak, Joanna Cherry, SNP NEC, Murrell, Salmond, Whiteford, Barrhead Boy Times Radio Focus Groups It’s a knockout for Nicola over Boris.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 221.
September 24, 2020 14:00 - 44 minutes - 32.6 MBFull Business Session at FMQs The best FMQs for months had Ruth in gentle mode and Richard, Patrick and Willie all a bit pushy. It was students and their accommodation that had them all excited. Like cruise ships, said Patrick, giving me visions of shared booze, casual sex and virus. What a cocktail. Testing capacity was challenged and got FM push back. Negative tests and human behaviour was also disputed. Social housing, the 80s miners strike, BiFab, FairStart, football a...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 220
September 23, 2020 14:20 - 44 minutes - 31.8 MBAfter the Second Lockdown PMQs. Starmer was quite gentle with Johnson who had two planted/easy questions to begin with. The PM was shown-up as a hypocrite over testing and made a silly speech as his final reply to Starmer. He thinks it’s only an ‘epidemic’ and that the NHS runs the Test & Trace system not Deloitte, Serco et al. SG Press Briefing. The highest days new Covid infections of 486 barely bothered the hyena hacks looking for red meat. Will the FM shut the pub...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 219
September 22, 2020 15:14 - 45 minutes - 32.6 MBIt’s Not Lockdown The UK is united in a return to stricter pandemic restrictions; or not. The PM delivered the already trailed news that Xmas and maybe even Easter is cancelled by new rules. The FM explained the science;. imposed stricter rules in Scotland, and supported open schools, colleges and full NHS services. Keir Starmer made a virtual Labour ‘convention’ speech waving his Union Jack shouting ‘Britain First’ and offending half of Scotland.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 218.
September 21, 2020 14:15 - 45 minutes - 32.7 MBNew BBC Politics Show - Coronavirus Update The new BBC SNPBaad show launched with a glitch. Watching on BBC Scotland, the only place to see the entire briefing, we missed the awkward contribution from DRoss, broadcast only on BBC 1 Scotland, who clearly hadn’t seen or heard the FM live. After checking the recording it was pity time for Douglas. Now that the briefing is inside a politics show there is nothing to stop the FM ‘being political’. Thanks BBC. The important Covid ...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 217
September 20, 2020 13:46 - 39 minutes - 28.9 MBReviews of Marr and Brewer then articles by Dani Garavelli and Mike Small have us ranging far and wide. Lockdowns in England and maybe Scotland, fines, furlough, DRoss, Jeanne Freeman, missing lockdowns in London?. Reviewing Garavelli brings up the Salmond Inquiry and all that covers; Sue Ruddick, COPFS, James Wolffe, Peter Murrell. Finishing with Bella’s article which oddly appears to be based on our topics this last week. Trivia mentioned includes Mrs Gove AKA Sarah Vine, Francis Urqu...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 216
September 18, 2020 13:54 - 46 minutes - 33.3 MBIndyref1 Anniversary Shona Craven…Peter A Bell Press briefing 2nd.Wave Alert…COBRA?..Fire-break Lockdown? Salmond Scandal Kenny MacAskill…Stuart Campbell…Iain Lawson…Peter Murrell…Sue Ruddick…Craig Murray…Mark Hirst…Alan Bisset PowerGrab Joanna Cherry…Lord Keen..
Aye Right Radio Podcast 215.
September 17, 2020 14:01 - 45 minutes - 33.1 MBUneventful FMQs. Ruth played safe, asked about a crime victim and avoided embarrassing her London boss. Testing failures across the UK came up and the FM skillfully fielded awkward questions. The FT gets a gold star for accuracy reporting on the threat to the Union. Who knew? Alex Cole-Hamilton gets roasted for his community protest meeting. Angus Brendan McNeil upsets Boris. Alister Union Jack confesses he is a Unionist. Kenny MacAskill gets a shout as does P...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 214
September 16, 2020 13:39 - 43 minutes - 32.1 MBAngela Rayner challenges the Prime Minister PMQs followed the standard pattern of the PM not answering any opposition questions. Angela Rayner, sitting in for self-isolating Keith Starmer, delivered an accomplished performance focussing on the 80% failure of the privatised Covid testing scheme. Johnson answered a question he wasn’t asked...again. And apparently they are NOW building four new labs to process the tests. (Why only now?)... Testing also dominated the First Minister’s press ...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 213
September 15, 2020 13:49 - 49 minutes - 35.9 MBA new route to indy? Jimmy Hutton, Stewart Lochhead & Norry Stewart featured. Press briefing… FM Sturgeon fielded testing questions about testing from the hack pack. With a solution three week delayed announced by Hancock, look for answers from London TV news, not the FM or us. The method of counting Covid hospital patients has changed and today’s old number was 262 and the new one is 48. Expect accusations of fiddling from the hacks. An Alternative Route to Indyr...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 212.
September 14, 2020 13:54 - 48 minutes - 35 MBTipping points and the fear of a fascist government Covid is back; infections are rising but testing isn’t keeping up so we don’t know how bad it is. FM Sturgeon has transformed the independence debate, confidence in an independent Scotland is now high and women now exceed men in support. Kevin McKenna has completed his journey from unionist to backing a plan B and supporting the SNP “to oppose and defeat the mafia that has subverted Westminster”. The actions of the “mafia”...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 211
September 13, 2020 13:32 - 49 minutes - 35.5 MBThe Frothy Rogue Nation Episode. The major issues, virus, law-breaking and power grabs by the Tories etc., facing us all this week, were largely missed by Andrew Marr and Gordon Brewer. Gordon, with a bout of ‘chlorinated chicken’ Tourettes faced Steven Barclay, the nominated Government ‘blocker’ for Scotland, but got nowhere. We mostly reviewed 2 important essays on the state of ‘Rogue UK’ by Gerry Hassan and Peter A Bell and then a London Times article by Alex Massie.(It’s frothy m...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 210.
September 11, 2020 14:39 - 46 minutes - 34.1 MBThe last live BBC Covid press briefing on TV? We heard details about the new Covid proximity app called Protect Scotland. The need for clear Covid messaging explains why the live BBC TV coverage is essential said the FM. The elderly, the poor and the shielding especially benefit. There’s no saving ‘taxpayers money’ by shortening the furlough scheme. There’s some optimism about treatments and vaccines. It’s too early to cancel Xmas. The Brexit Burach continues and...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 209.
September 10, 2020 13:50 - 33 minutes - 24.5 MBFMQs was back to Thursday and today was the 3 weekly review of the Covid regulations. It was an anticipated roll-back of the numbers allowed to meet in homes and outdoors plus an extension of face-covering rules. Phase 4 is paused. Most questions were measured and noteworthy was a restrained Baroness Davidson. Testing and quarantine were the main issues. The power grab via the Internal Market (Brexit) bill got us going though London media commentators ignored it. The threat to the No...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 208.
September 09, 2020 14:29 - 47 minutes - 34.3 MBToday’s drama began with Scottish Questions from Westminster to the Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack with 5 planted questions from English Tory MPs reading their scripts. Second on the bill was PMQs featuring Sir Keir Starmer testing PM Johnson about testing. Red Tory Keir said “We support the Government call for a return to work” Third was a brief FM Sturgeon Covid press briefing? Mixed messaging, furlough, excess deaths and further warnings about more infections and reg...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 207.
September 08, 2020 13:54 - 52 minutes - 38 MBCovid is back and spreading so the press briefing was a serious influencing event with Jason Leitch backing Nicola Sturgeon….Two hacks asked non Covid questions and got skelped….Also disciplined were anti-Covid protesters and an Aberdeen unionist politician?….The Brexit bourach is also back and we decide that maybe Boris breaking international treaties suits the campaign for an iScotland….On indyref2 we cover leadership and project management which leads us to the Salmond Inquiry where ...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 206.
September 07, 2020 14:06 - 40 minutes - 30 MBAt the press briefing the FM stressed and re-assured us that the rise in Covid infections is important. The restrictions review due this week could see stricter rules. The story about the Johnson government prepared to break the EU Withdrawal Agreement and trash the Brexit Treaty gets coverage. The potential of other trade deals especially with the USA comes up. The ignorance of respected journalist Will Hutton reveals the paucity of understanding Scottish politics in London. Ruth W...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 205.
September 06, 2020 12:12 - 33 minutes - 24.2 MBExtinction Rebellion impact, Sturgeon serious?, Covid, Brexit XR really upset the right-wing papers; will YES activist copy XR?; media ignore far right Dover protest. Indyref2 situation, Nick Clegg, New Street Lubyanka, UKGov sponsored FB ads, Trump and NATO, Novichok, Covid, Back to the Office, Brexit, Macron.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 204.
September 05, 2020 10:15 - 37 minutes - 27.6 MBWe cover Johnson refusing a legal Indyref2 plus the creeping-coup background in London and the unsustainable SNP economic position. Davidson “Don’t call me Baroness Ruth” gets roasted. (Hint Yes do) “Don’t upset the Catholics” says Kevin McKenna. Dinnae fash! British Labour in Scotland leadership battle. Who cares? Police bust addicts support van Johnson forces civil servants into work Effie Deans can’t find Inverloch
Aye Right Radio Podcast 203.
September 04, 2020 14:01 - 43 minutes - 31.8 MBNo Government press briefing today so it's mostly a media review; ================================================== Ian Murray, the ONLY Labour MP in Scotland and accused of planning to leave the party has defended his position. British Labour in Scotland in-fighting continues. …………………. BBC Newsnight; Prof John Curtice opined that the Supreme Court might allow a second legal Indyref in the face of a Johnson refusal of a Section 30 order. Phillipa Whiteford MP suggested there is ...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 202
September 03, 2020 14:19 - 35 minutes - 25.8 MBIt’s mostly about the best press briefing for informed content for ages. Go and watch/listen to the recording. Fish & chips and Andrew Bowie trending, Kevin Hague gets the hump with Iain MacWhirter, GERS gets a roasting, James Forsyth reveals the current Unionist thinking on ‘allowing’ Indyref2 which leads to a rammie at the close. A rammie which you will not hear as Norrie has edited it out.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 201.
September 02, 2020 14:08 - 57 minutes - 42 MBJohnson was useless, Starmer was effective, Blackford challenged the end of furlough as did most MPs including Tories & DUP. The Speaker forced the PM to answer the questions but Boris couldn’t. Davidson failed again, no Leonard bounce with his job under attack, Harvie & Rennie on Covid, Glasgow cluster details. Mercy Baguma, D.ross MP, Programme for Government, Indyref2, Jo Cherry, Wings, Craig Murray, Peter A Bell, Tipping point yet?, YES at 60%?, Civil Service union plot against...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 200.
August 31, 2020 14:17 - 56 minutes - 40.8 MBLimited press briefing coverage of a relaxed FM Sturgeon but an intense connected discussion covering; ============================================================= Ruth Wishart on the dark forces promoting the March on Holyrood/Saving Scotland rallies in Edinburgh and Glasgow Green on Saturday 5th. with David Icke reptiles, Covid deniers, anti-5g and fascists….. Iain Lawson on the economic collapse of our city centres. SKY poll reveals footfall in August only 17% of normal and predi...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 199.
August 30, 2020 13:34 - 50 minutes - 37.2 MB“GERS should be renamed TWITS: too wee; too poor; too stupid” Iain MacWhirter =============================================================It’s a papers review covering…All things GERS, is the economy now a strong card for iScotland? Cummings attack on Parliament, Civil Service & Justiciary leads us to Martin Hannan on the ‘Lawgrab’, ..then long kilts, SNP & working class, English regions & GERS, UK £2 trillion deficit.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 198.
August 28, 2020 13:59 - 52 minutes - 38.5 MBA strong press briefing covering walk-thru tests, police powers, threats to office workers, is the virus weaker? Poll shows 70% confidence in Scots run economy. Also the state of Indy online media, is the Crown Office "bent"? and danger to the Act and Treaty of Union by threat to Scots Law
Aye Right Radio Podcast 197.
August 27, 2020 13:52 - 46 minutes - 33.8 MBFeatured today;… The Covid press briefing and then the Gordon Brewer show starring Finance Secretary Kate Forbes. No deaths, 30,000 tests comleted yesterday, 80% success in contact tracing and quarantine compliance, Daily Heil skelped, TES skelped and a satisfied FM. GERS dominated the Brewer show and Kate Forbes sorted out Peter McMahon from ITV. “GERS is a picture of Scotland IN THE UK not an iScotland” Douglas Fraser unusually was sitting on the indy fence and even Brewer interr...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 196
August 26, 2020 13:47 - 51 minutes - 37.8 MBThe Scuttlebut episode… A heavy duty episode today including the FMQs review, the Salmond inquiry, the jailing of Manny Singh and the trials of Craig Murray. Also mentioned are Alex Cole-Hamilton,Geo Galloway, Richard Leonard and Ruthie got ignored.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 195
August 25, 2020 13:54 - 42 minutes - 31.5 MBTesting and face coverings dominated the press briefing today. Details of new testing capacity were revealed and the hacks tried to get an argument going about face coverings in schools but failed. We enjoyed Hugo Rifkind's London Times article where he swithered about indy and compared Gove and Galloway to the Blues Brothers. Then we started examining today's Salmond inquiry session. All of it more fun than it sounds.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 194
August 24, 2020 14:00 - 53 minutes - 39.6 MBThe Allegedly Episode: Nothing we said today is true; Mentioned--- Johnson in a tent, Gove & Galloway are just friends, Murdoch isn't starting a News TV channel, Alex Neil isn't a rebel anymore, Andrew Neil didn't noise up the cybernats, Geo Kerevan still loves Red Rose, nobody shouted peadophile at Buck House, Tony Benn did sell off our oil, everybody is spying, the Greens & Lib-Dems pop up and Ruth & Dougie are still missing.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 193.
August 23, 2020 12:48 - 45 minutes - 27.7 MBIt’s mostly a press review today as Norry, Stewart and Jimmy cover — Iain MacWhirter, Stewart Cosgrove, Andrew Tickell and Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp in the Sundays. Topics included — Civil Service Salmond inquiry, Wark TV show, best/worst outcomes for Sturgeon/Independence, impact of polls, Forward as One legal challenge and an Indy Scotland of ‘progressive’ politics V Unionists legacy.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 192
August 21, 2020 13:48 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBBBC Scotland News presenter delivers biased Scottish Government Baad intro to press briefing. Also at the presser…Coupar Angus factory outbreak “thousands in home isolation”. Elsewhere;… ‘Alliance for Unity’ allies Geo Galloway, Andrew Neil & Michael Gove; Murdoch, Sarah Vine, Barclay Bros, Trump, Bannon, Peat Worrier, Scottish Fabians; Jason Michael on Progressive Politics & Indy; James Kelly on polls.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 191
August 20, 2020 13:46 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBNorrie, Jimmy and Stewart blether around a mixed bag starting with; FMQs ... New powers for councils and police ... highest new infections for 3 months; Then.......... Riddoch on Wark; Brewer SNPBaad; Hassan on Wark; MPs on NEC; Peter A Bell on Wishart on legal challenge; Dougie the ref on Perm Sec; Believe in Scotland; SNPGood on polls; Blood & soil from Galloway, Gove & Neil; The 'Majority' block oor Jimmy..who knew?
Aye Right Radio Podcast 190
August 19, 2020 13:58 - 51 minutes - 34.4 MBTory panic; 55% YES for Indy; Union Jacks; Scottish identity; Historical sex harrassment only in Scotland; Co-ordinated SNP baad attacks; Power grab; Trident; Scottish Ports.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 189
August 18, 2020 14:49 - 49 minutes - 33.1 MBThe FM Sturgeon press briefing plus the Salmond scandal daily report filled the show. At the presser the FM said "I could be going on too much" and asked the CMO to rescue her. 'Boring' might be going too far. Only 3 briefings weekly from now. The Kirsty Wark Show/Salmond hatchet job gets chewed up and the Holyrood inquiry into the failed Salmond legal case/s gets started with a nervous Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 188.
August 17, 2020 14:05 - 43 minutes - 29.4 MBMuch fuddery about in today’s show and apart from care homes starring at the Scottish Government press briefing and the Salmond hatchet job TV show due tonight on the State Broadcaster BBC the following people got a mention; Kirsty Wark, Alex Salmond, Jack McConnell, Leslie Evans, Dani Garavelli, Craig Murray, Stu Campbell, Mark Hirst, Alison Di Rollo, Joanna Cherry and the SNP NEC.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 187.
August 16, 2020 13:21 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBTrains, planes and exams; Public Health England blamed & sold off; Dildo Grayling; Didn't Swinney do well? Tories are ...............bloody awful & corrupt.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 186.
August 14, 2020 15:09 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBWe cover Nicholas Sturgeon's press conference, the press as usual push for a headline. Jimmy has a pop at the BBC reporting, Westminster's power grab in the English shires and lots of other stuff.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 185.
August 13, 2020 14:03 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBAll go today for Jimmy and Norrie, Ruth Davidson and the Lords, and more of the Lords followed by Nicola Sturgeon's press conference, exams in England, John Swinney and Jimmy has a flourish at the end.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 184.
August 12, 2020 13:46 - 37 minutes - 25 MBStewat still absent away in the Highlands, so it’s left to Jimmy and Norrie to scrutinise first Minister’s questions today. Ruth day with back fronting for the Tories I think it’s fair to say that Nicola got the better of their exchanges. Education top of the agenda, Patrick Harvey going on evictions and Richard Leonard following Ruth, hunting for John Swinney’s head. A new poll out today good news for the SNP and independence and we chat about how much the Holyrood enquiry into the Sal...
Aye Right Radio Podcast 183
August 11, 2020 13:01 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBNorrie and Jimmy have a chat about today's sturgeon press conference, John Swinney, football and the employment figures. Looking forward to tomorrow's headlines of Swinney goes and what possible answers he could have to sort out the exam problems.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 182.
August 10, 2020 13:39 - 36 minutes - 24.6 MBJust Jimmy and Norrie today discussing the daily Sturgeon press conference, John Swinney's vote of no confidence. How will the press react to " the U-turn". Business for Scotland has a publication on the Scots economy available and Andrew Tickell has archived all his writing in a new blog site. We also touch on the dreaded landlord.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 181.
August 09, 2020 12:36 - 36 minutes - 24.3 MBJimmy and Norrie discuss Richard Murphy's problems with Benny Higgins. Can we use the Treaty of Union to renegotiate a path to independence. Scottish Fabian society suggests a path to close down any chance of a referendum in the future.
Aye Right Radio Podcast 180
August 07, 2020 13:55 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBAberdeen outbreak catches Dons…FM skelps Aberdeen FC and yellow cards go to the Club and players; SQA stooshie gets short shrift and hacks get skelped by FM; Peter A Bell uneasy about the Unionist mini-panic; BLiS rubbished…Murray & Findlay scorned…old guard admired; Joyce McMillan, Peter Oborne mentioned; Gorgeous George ridiculed.