True colours

Was Boris Johnson's latest devolution disaster gaff the nail in the coffin for the Union?
Is indyref2 2021 simply wishful thinking?
Is Alyn Smith's wheesht for indy plea another symptom of an increasingly centralised SNP power structure?
Did the Daily Mail tip over into overt racism with its latest Marcus Rashford story?

With his incendiary statements on devolution north of the border being a disaster has Boris Johnson, despite today's spin from Tory Central Office, revealed the real intentions of his government and put the nail in the coffin of the Union as well as Gordon Brown's Devo Max? We take a look at this ,and the rather odd coverage of it by the BBC given the incredible disappearing act by not only Douglas Ross but the entire Scottish Conservative party.

Lesley had an in depth interview with SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford during last weekend's AUOB online assembly. Just what did it reveal about SNP strategy, or lack of it, for indyref2 and the party's relationship with the broader Yes movement.

MP Alyn Smith launched an attack on the SNP Women's Pledge and Common Weal groups accusing them of endangering independence by sowing unnecessary divisons. We reflect on whether this shows a worrying tendency in the party,when allied to the rejection of both Plan B motions at annual conference, to stifle healthy, democratic debate or as Smith claimed risks blowing it(independence)on divisions that needn't exist.

The BMJ came out all guns blazing arguing that Covid-19 had "unleashed state corruption on a grand scale", and that government and its appointess were cherry picking or ignoring the science Does this onslaught from the most eminent of publications tell us how seriously we should take the failure of the UK government to tackle the pandemic?

Along the way we also discuss what the Daily Mail's front page story about Marcus Rashford tells us about the right wing press, and Scotland's men's football team's triumph on Thursday.