Newsnet Radio Podcast
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNewsnet.scot's regular podcast is a popular feature of Scottish political debate. reflecting the views of the pro-independence audience, but also tackling UK and international issues. Chaired by former broadcaster Derek Bateman and guests, it aims to encourage discussion of politics without the confrontational tone favoured by today political programmes.
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The woman in charge at Glasgow's George Square
December 09, 2017 05:00 - 11.9 MBWhat do you do when you get one of the most powerful women in Scottish local government in front of a microphone? Well you ask her all about the job, what she wants to achieve, and a few of your own hobby-horses too. Like buskers with amplifiers, who are too noisy for Derek Bateman's liking. Our podcast host raised all this and more with Susan Aitken, the ebullient leader of Glasgow City Council, who swept to power for the SNP last May. Susan, seen as one of the most creative leaders in loca...
From almost our only foreign correspondent
December 02, 2017 05:00 - 15.7 MBHow should we in Scotland digest our international news? As the conventional Scottish newspaper industry grapples with the twin forces of intense competition from London titles and the Internet, foreign coverage has been marginalised. One of the few Scottish based journalists to continue to cover foreign affairs, Herald contributing editor David Pratt, returned to the Newsnet studio to discuss the media experience with our regular host Derek Bateman. He points to a lively international media...
Notes and impressions from the Catalan front
November 17, 2017 05:00 - 13.1 MBScots are watching the Catalan controversy with more than a passing interest. As Madrid and Barcelona slug it out over the region's future status, more than a few people in Scotland are seeking parallels with the UK. Scots writer, author and broadcaster Rachel McCormack lived in Catalunya for several years, and also set up a Catalan cooking school in London. She has just returned from Barcelona, where she struck up old friendships and took the temperature of the Catalan debate, just as Spani...
Days of chaos on planet Britannia
November 12, 2017 05:00 - 12.9 MBWhat’s all the fuss about? Priti Patel drops in on, er, 12 meetings while on “holiday” in Israel, including a friendly chat with the local prime Minister and before she knows it people are making a fuss and insisting she comes back early from a business trip to Kenya. It’s enough to make the ambitious International Development Secretary give up her job. Oh wait, she has. Then there’s dear old Boris, blundering through a statement that may condemn a British citizen to even more time in an Ira...
Author Peter Lynch on the referendum trail
November 03, 2017 04:00 - 18.4 MBHow was the 2014 independence referendum for you? It might seem a strange question, but academic and Yes campaigner Dr Peter Lynch has been reflecting on the local campaign he supported, in Edinburgh West. Now he has a new book, IndyRef to ScotRef, Campaigning for Yes, which details his impressions of that campaign ( which failed as Edinburgh West voted strongly No in 2014). He recalls the pride and partnerships that grew among activists as they leafletted, doorstepped voters and organised l...
Life as a nationalist MP in the Commons
October 27, 2017 04:00 - 11.9 MBLast June was an unusually nervous time for the SNP. Riding high in successive post-referendum elections, suddenly majorities were shaky and canvassers were finding life tough at some doorsteps where folk had grown concerned about a Brexit-related indyref2. David Linden was among those in new SNP seats – won in the euphoria of the 2015 UK election – with a lot to defend. The new candidate pulled through in Glasgow East, holding the seat by a squeaky majority of 75. A few months later he is sc...
Brexit, Scottish Labour, and the meaning of life
October 21, 2017 04:00 - 17.1 MBThe popular Newsnet podcast is back! Apologies, but a spam attack led to unforeseen problems, which resulted in a "lost week" for the podcast. Now we're back, with journalist Maurice Smith in the chair. His guest is Steven Purcell, for Labour politician turned business consultant, but still a keen observer of the political scene in Scotland. They discussed the latest turn of events concerning Brexit, with Theresa May once more prostrating herself in Brussels while her spin doctors pretend s...
Scottish Labour and its limited options
September 29, 2017 04:00 - 13.8 MBIt has been a funny old week for the Labour Party in Scotland. While the UK wonders if it might actually elect Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister, Scottish delegates spent the party conference in Brighton sharpening their knives as their leadership campaign became publicly divisive. Who will win the leadership, and does it matter? Newsnet Radio host Derek Bateman invited Common Space editor and media commentator Angela Haggerty and journalist and producer Maurice Smith to read the runes.
Learning to sing a new song for Europe
September 22, 2017 04:00 - 19.9 MBAs Theresa May prepared her latest Brexit speech in the bizarrely chosen venue of Florence, Newsnet took time to record a fresh analysis of the European situation. This latest podcast features Kirsty Hughes, head of a new think-tank, The Scottish Centre on European Relations (SCRE), taking a broad view of the UK government’s lack of progress on Brexit, and how the EU nations might respond. Kirsty joined regular host Derek Bateman and journalist and producer Maurice Smith. So what happens nex...
A Welsh perspective on Brexit and the nations
September 18, 2017 04:00 - 11.9 MBWhat does Brexit mean for the devolved nations of Britain? We know so much about the political debate in Scotland, but what about Wales? Unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland, Wales voted by a majority to leave the EU. That was a blow to the nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, and the movement overall. So where is Welsh opinion now? What do people there make of the idea of a Westminster “power grab” as the UK parliament sets out to accrue powers as they return from Brussels, post Brexit? Derek B...
Casting an eye over global affairs
September 08, 2017 04:00 - 14.4 MBWhat is Scotland's place in the world? In the post-indyref, pre Brexit environment, can Scotland's voice be heard amidst the light and heat of global politics? As the EU faces upheaval, Russia flexes its muscles and Trump makes more protectionist noises in Washington, what of the Scottish perspective? John MacDonald thinks Scotland should indeed have that voice. He is the academic and thinker behind CABLE, Scotland's new international affairs online magazine. With just three issues online, h...
The great Labour / Tory / Brexit crisis, discussed
September 01, 2017 04:00 - 16.6 MBAnother week in Scottish politics, another Scottish Labour upheaval with the abrupt resignation of erstwhile leader Kezia Dugdale. Another week in British politics came with more revelations of Tory malice / incompetence, not least in the UK Government’s cack-handed and unlovely handling of the so-called Brexit “negotiations”. Another week in American politics and … no, no that’s enough nonsense without adding Trumpets (reddit!)… Our regular podcast has Derek Bateman summoned renowned Scott...
GERS and Scottish economic prospects
August 26, 2017 04:00 - 14.9 MBYes, this week witnessed "GERSmas", the annual frenzy that accompanies the economic figures that mean all things to everyone as soon as they are released. GERS - Government Expenditure and Revenues, Scotland -- is an attempt by civil service statisticians to show much tax is raised in Scotland by Government bodies, and how much public money is actually spent here.Always controversial and hotly disputed, the GERS figures became the focus of debate during and after the independence referendum c...
What next for Scottish politics?
August 11, 2017 04:00 - 18 MBIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Steven Purcell! Here at Newsnet Studios we have been waiting Steven’s arrival for some time since the June general election. And although it took a while, we think it’s been worth it. Why Steven? Well the former leading Labour figureBrexit was the first to say on this medium that Jeremy Corbyn would astound the critics, and also that the SNP would lose seats in the north east of Scotland. Podcast host Derek Bateman invited Scottish politics’ very own clair...
Where next for the independence movement?
August 04, 2017 04:00 - 18.3 MBWhat next for the Scottish independence movement? With support apparently stalled in the polls, indy still runs high in terms of public support -- higher, indeed, than current support for the Scottish National Party? The loss of 21 SNP seats, and the apparent surge that favoured the Tories especially in north east Scotland, came as a blow. But is it really that great a setback, when considered against the greater scheme of Scottish politics and where it might be headed? Robin McAlpine, direc...
Working as an MP in these turbulent times
July 28, 2017 04:00 - 18.1 MBThis week's keyword is "turbulent". Brexit, Trump, you name it. Turbulent politics and politicians. A turbulent electorate and the social fall-out of the economy, immigration and the rest. Podcast host Maurice Smith invited Chris Stephens, MP for Glasgow South-west, to discuss all this, as well as his experience at Westminster. As a member of the SNP's much-vaunted intake of 56 MPs in the UK election of 2015, as the party rode the crest of a post-refendum surge, he has witnessed a Tory admin...
Does Brexit invite a creative response?
July 22, 2017 04:00 - 21.3 MBBrexit threatens to undermine the economy, the constitution, and all of our lives in different ways. Is there anything to be said for it? Is there anything to be said for the issue that has dominated the Tory Party for decades, and now engulfs the whole of the UK? How are our politicians responding? How are we responding? Podcast host Maurice Smith invited The National columnist Shona Craven and writer and activist Christopher Silver to the Newsnet Radio studio to discuss all the implication...
When politics stops making sense
July 14, 2017 04:00 - 17 MBIt is July, but not quite the silly season. We invited two of Scottish politics' keenest observers to the Newsnet studio to chew over everything - well, most things - that have been going on over recent weeks. Let's just say it covers Russian honeytraps, quotes The Godfather and speculates on everything from world domination to fake news. Top Scottish author and playwright Peter Arnott and journalist Angela Haggerty joined this week's host, Maurice Smith, left, in a discussion that covered Tr...
Elliot Bulmer and the need for a Scots constitution
July 01, 2017 04:00 - 11.3 MBFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon may be planning a "reset" on Scottish independence, but what does that mean for those who support the idea? Is it a campaigning reset, mainly to do with the timing of a second referendum, or something more fundamental? Dr Elliot Bulmer, former research director of the Constitutional Commission, argues that the drawing up of a formal constitution for a proposed independent Scotland would be a good place to start. He believes that without a written vision for how ...
Brexit anniversary blues
June 23, 2017 04:00 - 18.6 MBWoke up this morning… a year on from the day Nigel declared to be “Britain’s independence day!” (Cue cheers of lard faced gents in ill fitting suits)… and what a year it’s been. Chaos, rising prices, a falling pound and a Prime Minister described openly by her own party members as “a dead woman walking”. The anarchists among us are delighted. The satire writers bordering on delirious. Their only worry is that they could actually make this all up, because it’s real, or as “real” as Theresa May...
Making sense of the electoral fall-out
June 16, 2017 04:00 - 18.2 MBA week on from the election that everyone won (and lost) and its implications are becoming clear. The UK is virtually leadership, the Tories continue attempting to cobble a deal with the DUP and in Scotland there is much debate about the future direction of the independence movement. Robin McAlpine (main picture), head of the think tank Common Weal, arrived at Planet Newsnet to discuss all this and more with podcast host Derek Bateman (left) and journalist and TV producer Maurice Smith. McAl...
First reactions to Theresa May's self inflicted poll
June 09, 2017 04:00 - 19.3 MBWell well well.... welcome to 1974 or thereabouts. A dithering Tory PM. Undue influence awarded to a belligerent set of Ulster Unionists. Europe. Where to go next... In the wake of the election result, three weary chaps gathered at Newsnet HQ to chew it all over and spit out some analysis. We invited others, but some threw sickies and others found paying jobs in the studios of the major broadcasters who probably paid them in curly sandwiches and coffee sludge. Regular host Derek Bateman was ...
Economics, democracy and the chattering classes
May 27, 2017 04:00 - 15.5 MBThis week's podcast is a wide ranging discussion that starts with the theory of economic democracy and takes the listener into more blunt analysis of where Scotland and Britain stand in the UK election campaign. Prof Cumbers joined Derek Bateman and regular contributor, playwright and author Peter Arnott, who chewed over another grim week in British public life, overshadowed as it was by the murder of 22 people and maiming of any more by a suicide bomber in the foyer of a Manchester concert ...
Onward march of simplistic election politics
May 20, 2017 04:00 - 15.8 MBHalfway through the general election campaign, the various party manifestos slipping into the public consciousness, and the opinion polls remain largely unchanged. Is the UK sleepwalking towards a massive Tory majority? Are their Scottish bedfellows going to consolidate the opposition vote north of the Border? What on earth is Labour up to? How are the SNP responding to all this? And if the Tories win, will they interpret victory as good reason to fend off a second independence poll, or even...
The new broom at Scotland's biggest city council
May 12, 2017 04:00 - 15 MBSusan Aitken, the woman taking charge of Glasgow, arrived in the Newsnet studio to reflect on her first week at the helm of a council that has been run by Labour for more than 40 years. Elected as an SNP councillor just five years ago, she finds herself now running a minority administration at Glasgow City Chambers, having finally wrested control from Labour. Now Aitken and colleagues hope to implement an ambitious programme of improvements and tackle key issues - social, economic and environ...
The fine lines between success and failure
May 05, 2017 04:00 - 18.5 MBAndrew Tickell enjoys studying failure. The law lecturer, political blogger and media commentator kicked off these theme as part of a conversation about our dearly beloved (unelected) Prime Minister, who has called an election next month in order to award herself some legitimacy. Well that's our script for the "bloody difficult" Tory leader in her pending wartime fantasy involving Europe. Andrew arrived in the studio to discuss all this and more with podcast host Derek Bateman, during a day ...
Tory Brexit election and what it means for Scotland
April 28, 2017 04:00 - 16.4 MBIt's hard to run a weekly political podcast and ignore the fact that Scotland has two elections to undergo over the coming weeks. Scottish council elections are next Thursday (May 4), rapidly overshadowed by Theresa May's long-denied "snap election" of June 8. Scottish academic Dr Peter Lynch, who previously wrote a history of the SNP, visited the Newsnet studio to chew over the meaning of it all with regular host Derek Bateman. Should we mock Mrs May for all those times she said there would...
An election, cor blimey and luv a duck
April 21, 2017 04:00 - 14.8 MBCor blimey, turn your back for an instant and before you know it that Theresa May’s gone and called an election! What’s that all about? Didn’t she say there was no need for one until after she’s led Blighty to glorious Brexit negotiation victory? Anyway rest assured she certainly doesn’t think there’s any need for a Scottish independence referendum. Why, that would be a needless distraction for a government that should get on with its day job. In fact perhaps all the opposition should just g...
Our media and the shifting sands of foreign affairs
April 14, 2017 04:00 - 15.5 MBWe are living in an unpredictable world, with wars in the Middle East, turmoil in Europe, and the Trump ascendancy in the United States. What should we make of all this, and is there a particularly Scottish perspective? Journalist and foreign correspondent David Pratt, a contributor to The Herald and Sunday Herald, has just returned from one of his frequent trips to war-torn Iraq. He tells podcast host Derek Bateman about the role of the war reporter, and differing approaches of the media to...
How to lobby at Holyrood, and other stories
April 08, 2017 04:00 - 16.3 MBNicola Sturgeon in the USA, Donald T***p in Florida, MSPs at Holyrood. This week has been a routine one in politics, which led us to discuss the First Minister's trip to the US, and the Scottish Parliament's record in scrutinising the executive. Joining podcast host Maurice Smith this week was regular contributor Steven Purcell -- an independence supporter who's been out canvassing for Labour in Glasgow -- and experienced researcher and campaigner Robert McGeachy. Robert has co-written with ...
Reflections on a week of gestures and symbols
March 31, 2017 04:00 - 16.1 MBIt has been a strange week of gestures and symbols. Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon met in Glasgow, agreeing to disagree, before the Scottish Parliament went on to support a request to approve a second referendum on independent. That vote, carried by 69 to 59 as the Scottish Greens supported the SNP, was immediately followed by Mrs May' rejection. The next day she finally wrote her letter resigning the UK from the UE (Article 50), and Ms Sturgeon promptly wrote a letter to Mrs May asking for ...
Spring has sprung, the grass is ris...
March 25, 2017 04:00 - 18.9 MBWe wonder where the birdies is... Climate change, renewables and the need to keep the lights on... the dawn chorus is starting earlier and it's causing havoc with Derek Bateman's sleep pattern. Well maybe...This week, as Spring sprung, Derek invited Scottish Greens' activist and campaign communicator Zara Kitson and journalist and TV producer Maurice Smith to join him for a podcast that reviewed the week's events, including the terror attack at Westminster, the curtailed independence debate ...
Setting record straight on Scottish economy?
March 17, 2017 04:00 - 16.3 MBIndependence means you’ll be poor, says Radio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys. We’ll stop writing you cheques, says The Telegraph… Two bizarre establishment responses to Scotland’s constitutional debate from recent days. Where does this assumption of a poverty stricken independent Scotland come from? Podcast host Derek Bateman took up the issue with economist Dr Craig Dalzell, of the independent and left-leaning think tank Common Weal. Why does London dominate the UK economy and how can the r...
Making sense of all the madness
March 11, 2017 05:00 - 17.1 MBWas this the week we all realised that things might change and never be the same again? Philip Hammond doesn't care about the self-employed. Theresa May doesn't care about EU citizens living in Blighty. The unelected, undemocratic House of Lords are making a stand for, er, democracy. According to some commentators, Scotland is closer to independence, and the clock is ticking on a united Ireland. Who'd have thunk it? Podcast host Derek Bateman welcomed author and playwright Peter Arnott and j...
In British politics, the chaos goes on
February 25, 2017 05:00 - 16.1 MBSo, two English by-elections. Labour lose a safe seat to the Tories but fight off UKIP to retain another one. So Jeremy Corbyn lives to fight another day, before his seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of Theresa May. Is that the real scenario? Where are the Lib Dems? And what does it all mean for Scottish politics, if anything? Kezia Dugdale is in Perth cajoling her party into readiness to fight the SNP in a second independence referendum. One of Scotland's keenest academic observers ...
Populist politics and the media. Discuss.
February 17, 2017 05:00 - 15.2 MBSometimes on Newsnet Radio we use our weekend podcasts to reflect on political events near and far, using that landscape to compare and contrast with the situation here in Scotland. This week the conversation ranged across US, British, Irish and Scottish politics. A few familiar characters popped up, from Donald Trump to Tony Blair, to the leaderships of Ulster's Democratic Unionist Party to Podcast host Derek Bateman was joined by CommonSpace editor and Sunday Herald columnist Angela Hagger...
Patrick Grady MP on the Brexit 'debate'
February 11, 2017 05:00 - 14.7 MBWell, if Scotland was under any illusions about its place in the "Mother of Parliaments", they were shattered during the past week's bizarre debate on the triggering of Brexit under Theresa May's Tory Government. That's certainly the view of the SNP MPs who attempted to file 50 varied amendments to the government's Bill, itself presented only after Mrs May was forced to do so by the Supreme Court. The Government response was - to say the least - hostile. Glasgow North MP Patrick Grady came ...
All the legal niceties of the rough-house
January 27, 2017 05:00 - 18 MBNever mind the bollocks, here come the Supreme Court judges. Whatever your views on the Scottish constitution, you at least know now that our shiny devolved parliament may not amount to a large hill of beans when it comes to decision-making. The Supreme Court's decision to force the UK Government to put the triggering of Brexit negotiations with the European Union before Parliament was welcomed by many. But it was accompanied by a decision that the devolved legislatures of Scotland, Northern ...
What can you see by the dawn's early light?
January 20, 2017 05:00 - 17.1 MBSo what can you see by the dawn's early light? As Washington plays host to the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States, the Newsnet podcast took its weekly snapshot of Scottish, UK and international politics. With our host Derek Bateman today were Iain Docherty, Professor of Public Policy and Governance, and journalist and TV producer Maurice Smith. They were given the task of unravelling all that is going on between Donald Trump and the American press, Theresa May and Europ...
Hail to our tartan chief an' a' that
January 14, 2017 05:00 - 14.7 MBExciting, isn't it? Only a few days now before the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, and de facto "leader of the free world", Donald Trump. It has a great ring to it, no? A second generation Scot who made it good, only decades after he emerged in New York to sup on a big, beautiful silver spoon held around his tiny hands by his proud Lewis mommy. It's enough to warm the blood of even the coldest-hearted Jock...surely? How we'll marvel at this son of Scots soil as he pr...
Who dares predict what 2017 will bring?
January 07, 2017 05:00 - 20.6 MBA lost majority for the SNP... then Brexit...now Trump... Who dares to predict what 2017 might bring, after all that? Surely only a fool would even attempt to do so? Luckily, Newsnet Radio found a few such fools and ordained them the task of ruminating through the tea-leaves of the year that's past, and making some bold predictions for the one that's ahead. Podcast host Derek Bateman was joined by CommonSpace editor and Sunday Herald columnist Angela Haggerty, playwright and author Peter Arn...
New media, old media, Dublin & Brexit
December 17, 2016 05:00 - 17.6 MBThe media in Scotland, a subject always sure to stir controversy, but one that remains important as Scottish politics demands centre stage attention. The SNP's dominance of Holyrood, Brexit, Trump and all the rest of 2016's political news, means that a diverse, popular, articulate and well resourced media is in great demand; or, it should be. Instead, the Scottish press continues to struggling with resourcing as the transformation from print to digital continues to be painful. Meanwhile the ...
On Britain's bloody imperial past, and present
December 10, 2016 05:00 - 11.4 MBCraig Murray, scourge of the Blairite establishment during his time at the Foreign Office, and critic of the SNP after the party's refusal to let him stand as an election candidate, is always an interesting listen. This weekend he visited the Newsnet studio to discuss current event in the US and elsewhere with our regular host Derek Bateman. And, in true form, the man who was Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he objected to that country's oppressive style of government, has a book to promote. H...
Should Scotland think global, act local?
December 02, 2016 05:00 - 20.3 MBWorld affairs are getting so scary, so baffling, that people are grasping for historical parallels. Is it the 1930s all over again? The cataclysmic 1970s or Thatcher / Reagan 1980s? Where are the parallels to tumultuous votes that result in the UK choosing to leave Europe, or – gulp! – President-elect Trump? This week’s podcast host Maurice Smith put those questions and more to guest commentators Zara Kitson of the Scottish Greens, and our regular contributor Chris Silver. Both “millennials” ...
Making sense of failing Tory Brexonomics
November 25, 2016 05:00 - 13 MBWhat on earth is happening to the British economy in the wake of the Brexit vote? Chancellor Philip Hammond’s revelation that Brexit may lead to additional costs of £60bn to the UK – and that’s just an early estimate by the Office of Budget Responsibility. Tory promises to have wiped out public debt first by 2015 and later by 2020 have been shattered, and Hammond revealed that the country will need to borrow a further £122bn by the latter date just to stay afloat. So much for austerity. What...
Alex Neil MSP and the Nationalist case for Brexit
November 20, 2016 05:00 - 14.6 MBAlex Neil, one of the Scottish National Party's most prominent figures, shocked some colleagues when he revealed recently that he voted for Brexit in the EU referendum last June. The Airdrie & Shotts MSP visited Newsnet Radio studios to explain the thinking behind vote, and what he thinks the Scottish Government should be doing as it tackles the implications of the UK opting to leave the European Union. The veteran MSP, who served as a Minister in the 2007 and 2011 administrations, says that...
Pat Kane says it's time for Scotland to tack left
November 18, 2016 05:00 - 14.8 MBA vote for modernity and defining our own path. That's how self-described "musician, writer, thinker and pest" Pat Kane describes the independence vote Scotland might have had back in 2014 as he reflects on all that has happened since. He warns that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Government risk being sucked into what he describes as "the Brexit maw", and somehow misses the boat on achieving a better future for Scotland as they grapple with Westminster's confused and all-enco...
How's it all hangin in Trumpland?
November 11, 2016 05:00 - 12.1 MBWe invite two leading Yes figures, bloggers James Kelly (ScotGoesPop!) and Paul Kavanagh (WeeGingerDug) and what happens? Donald Trump gets elected that’s what. Still reeling from the Great Ginger Dumpling’s Washington triumph, James and Paul got together with regular host Derek Bateman to try and dissect how it happened, what happens next, and what it might all mean for Scotland, Britain, Brexit, the EU and everything else that sprang to mind. The truth of course is that no-one really knows ...
Hallowe'en horrors of a Tory majority at Holyrood
October 29, 2016 04:00 - 17.7 MBWhat a weird world we are living in right now. A world where Japanese car manufacturers suddenly reverse all their concerns about Brexit and commit to spending millions in Leave-voting Sunderland, but without any UK Government promises of subsidies… Yeh, right. But the intoxicating fumes of Japanese lobbying and Tory plotting may be having an influence on otherwise-sane people everywhere. Perhaps even in Scotland some are thinking the unthinkable. Might Brexit work out just fine for everyone?...
Strange days, odd alliances and missing mandates
October 22, 2016 04:00 - 17.2 MB"Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes / No" asked the front page of the Daily Record on Friday. Yes, the Daily Record, creators of "The Vow" and a bastion of the Labour Party for longer than anybody cares to remember. The paper's three page position statement was prompted by the stance of unelected UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who has ruled out negotiating anything that recognises Scotland's big majority to Remain during her looming Brexit negotiations with the European Union. W...