Latest Scottish independence Podcast Episodes
Professor Mark Blyth-Part 2
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 09, 2021 08:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn part 2 of our interview with Professor Mark Blyth we focus on "Angrynomics" the book on the rise of populism and solutions to tackle its root causes which Mark co-wrote with Eric Lonergan. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/angrynomics/9781788212793 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Angrynomics-Eri...
Headline News
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 02, 2021 14:28 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGreta Thunberg's words on Scotland and climate change were definitely mangled by the BBC but should we patting ourselves on the back on our response to the emergency? Lesley reflects on the opportunities missed by the SNP government in terms of district heating and insulation in particu...
The Real Deal?
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 26, 2021 11:56 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfghanistan continues to dominate the headlines and with no extension to the August the 31st deadline for US withdrawal what future awaits the people of Afghanistan,particularly the women,and what does the whole sorry saga say about the international order? The SNP and the Green Party h...
The I word
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 19, 2021 12:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAll of us have been shocked by the stories and images emerging from Afghanistan as the Taliban take over. Beyond the growing sense of horror what do they say about the future of that country,the competence of the UK government,the UK's relationship with the broader international commun...
Duncan McCann-Our Land Report
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 12, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsREVIVE commissioned the New Economics Foundation and Common Weal to produce the Our Land report. They asked what steps a Scottish Government could take within the present constitutional position to tackle the acknowledged problems around land ownership and use. Together with leading S...
Root causes and real solutions
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 05, 2021 11:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe horrifying Scottish drug deaths statistics are the main thrust of this week's podcast bringing into sharp focus the necessity of the Scottish government to challenge the reserved powers Westminster holds over this area.It's now time, we believe, for Holyrood to take control and en...
What we did on our holidays
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 29, 2021 11:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're back after our wee break and Lesley is full of the amazing things happening on Eigg as she reflects on all that's happened there since the community buy out nearly 25 years ago. As the UK government lurches more to the right with its policies on asylum seekers in particular, we lo...
Professor Mark Blyth Part 1
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 22, 2021 04:26 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMark Blyth is Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance. He's also the William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics and Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs. Mark's a political economist whose research f...
Seven Days Too Long
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 15, 2021 11:32 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSometimes a week is a very long time in politics and this was one of them.We try and pick our way through the welter of Westminster controversies from accusations of racist dog whistling to the cuts in overseas aid and the controversial English health legislation. It began with Boris Jo...
Parks Life
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 08, 2021 12:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLike death and taxes there's currently no escape from the strains of "It's coming home". We reflect on the complexities and contradictions of a multi-cultural England football team representing,what seems to be,an increasingly xenophobic,insular English polity, and the hypocrisy of the...
1966 and aw that
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 01, 2021 11:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEngland's win v Germany in the Euros unleashed a wave of exceptionalism across the media. We examine the,not inconsiderable,links between national success,and failure, on the football pitch and the fortunes of political parties. Precisely what impact will that result,when added to Starm...
Oor hame
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 24, 2021 12:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSo Scotland is out of Euro 2020 and as far as football is concerned it's back tae auld claes and porridge and possibly supporting Wales, and anyone who's playing England. However back on the political pitch the UK government seems hell bent on privatising Channel 4. What's the real moti...
Meeting ourselves
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 17, 2021 17:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCummings,Covid, that dodgy Aussie trade deal,falling out with Joe Biden and the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol. You would think that this would be a premiership and a government in crisis. However the Tories, yes we'll still call them that, are riding high in the opinion polls an...
Revelations
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 10, 2021 12:02 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWill Joe Biden get Boris Johnson telt over breaching the Northern Ireland Protocol at the G7 Summit? Meanwhile,another week.Another court judgement.Another government minister under scrutiny.The latest in this long line of shame,Michael Gove. The English High Court ruled that a £560,00...
There's been a Murdo
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 03, 2021 11:40 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week's podcast has leadership and history at its core as themes. However we begin with Murdo Fraser who seems to have undergone a road to Damascus conversion with his proposal that Scotland should move to STV for Holyrood elections. Lesley was stunned to find herself agreeing with...
Cummings and Covid
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 27, 2021 13:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDominic Cummings made his much anticipated appearance in front of a joint select committee on Wednesday. He'd already trailed a significant proportion of his revelations on Twitter but seeing the man himself make them in Parliament did make this a major political event. We examine what ...
The Bute House Shuffle
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 20, 2021 12:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe focus the first part of the podcast on Nicola Sturgeon's,somewhat underwhelming ,reshuffle of her Cabinet after her outstanding victory in the Scottish election. A sensible,steady as she goes,or picking pals to subdue debate? Sticking with Holyrood we wonder just what Willie Rennie w...
The Dating Game
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 13, 2021 13:33 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe aftermath of last week's Scottish elections has raised questions of when Nicola Sturgeon should go for indyref2 and has seen the Tories scrambling to deny the mandate pro independence parties have to call one. The Conservatives have been tying themselves in ever increasing arithmet...
Holyrood 2021 Election Special
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 08, 2021 22:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this week's late night episode we give our immediate reaction to the results of the Holyrood election trying to make sense not only of what it means to the political parties but also its impact on the path to indyref2 and Scottish independence. We also take a look at the Hartlepool b...
Sleazy does it
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 29, 2021 13:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs more and revelations come to light concerning Boris Johnson how long will it be until something sticks to the Teflon PM? The Tory Party message on the mysterious funding of No 11 Downing Street's refurbishment is,"Who cares?" Will it survive an Electoral Commission investigation? Cha...
Limbo land
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 22, 2021 12:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsParty manifestoes for the Holyrood election have been arriving thick and fast. We ask is this a phoney war where, despite all the promises and policies in those manifestoes, what it boils down to,with the parties and the electorate, is support for,or opposition to,Scottish independence...
Manifesto destiny
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 15, 2021 14:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Holyrood election campaign is nearly at the half way mark and today,Thursday, saw the launch of the SNP manifesto. We give our immediate reaction to the headline proposals. STV hosted the second leaders debate and it was a very different affair to last week's BBC effort. Who were th...
Following the leaders
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 08, 2021 14:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're definitely smack in the middle of the 2021 Holyrood election campaigns with the first leaders debate on the BBC, the drop of leaflets from the parties through our letter boxes, and the appearances of the party leaders on radio and TV. We step back from this bombardment,focusing o...
D'Hondt worry.
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 30, 2021 14:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe focus in this episode on the impact the creation of the Alba Party might have on the May Holyrood elections. The launch of the new party saw a couple of SNP MPs switch to Alba and the withdrawal from the election by Independence for Scotland and Action for Independence. We try and m...
In oor ain haunds
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 23, 2021 18:39 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTwo inquiry reports and a vote of no confidence in two days. We examine the events of the last 48 hours and their implications not just for Nicola Sturgeon but their impact on the SNP and the May Holyrood elections. The First Minister has survived but has she been politically and per...
Let the sun shine in
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 16, 2021 15:18 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBoris Johnson is set to announce the well-trailed shift in UK foreign and defence policy. We look at the proposals in terms of their impact on Scotland, if any, and in particular at the 40% increase in nuclear weapons to be based on the Clyde. The appalling scenes of the Metropolitan ...
Listomania
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 09, 2021 14:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe begin with the behaviour of Rangers fans after their team won the league on Sunday, the police response,and the reaction/non reaction of the club to the blatant flouting of the Covid regulations. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's well trailed interview with Oprah Winfrey aired in the ...
Bring it on
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 04, 2021 13:08 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week,not unexpectedly, we focus most of the podcast on the appearance of Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond at the Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish Government's mishandling of harassment complaints against the former First Minister. Both of us faced the prospect of listening to th...
Whataboutery
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 23, 2021 16:48 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs we wait to find out if Alex Salmond will finally appear before the Holyrood Committee we reflect on the what might have beens for the SNP and the broader Yes movement if the Salmond Sturgeon rift had not opened up. Matt Hancock has been all over the media the past few days trying to...
Dad dancing
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 16, 2021 14:55 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs the fault lines begin to grow between the Scottish and UK governments over quaratine regulations for arrivals from abroad Lesley reflects on her invitation to appear on LBC this morning. And I clearly demonstrate,with my lapse into incoherent fury at Andrew Pierce's juvenile remarks,...
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