Latest Scottish independence Podcast Episodes
Twa radiators
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 16, 2020 13:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this week's look at Scottish and UK politics from a left/indy perspective we kick off looking at the announcement by Boris Johnson of his Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities and his controversial choice of Munira Mirza to lead its setting up. Will this inquiry be a genuine breakthroug...
Set in stone
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 09, 2020 12:50 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Black Lives Matter protestors in Bristol toppled,then threw the statue of slaver Edward Colston into the river on Sunday it was the culmination of nearly 100 years of local anger at, not only its presence, but the blocking of even the slightest steps to recognise his involvement in the vile...
Hard evidence
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 02, 2020 13:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this week's look at politics from a Scottish perspective the Dominic Cummings affair rumbles on and its impact socially and politically can't be underestimated. What it also brought into sharp perspective was the limited grasp on factual evidence the UK government in general, and Boris Johnso...
The lies have it
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 26, 2020 15:54 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this week's episode we begin, inevitably, with the biggest story of the political week, the Dominic Cummings affair. Just how will it play with the swathe of new,northen English,Tory voters? In Scotland,even before Cummingsgate, Nicola Sturgeon's ratings sored in polls over her handling of ...
The New Normal
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 19, 2020 12:53 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIf a week is a long time,not just in Scottish, but in all politics, a fortnight feels like a lifetime,but we're back. We kick off with the Andy Wightman call for a rent freeze in his amendment to the Coronavirus (Scotland) (No. 2) Bill that will be considered by MSPs today at Holyrood. Will th...
The grand mither tongue
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 05, 2020 14:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week's look at politics from a Scottish perspective has even more of a Scot's accent than usual as we review Alistair Heather's braw documentary on BBC Scotland,The Rebel Tongue. Lesley tells folk folk to "Get on their bikes( if they can find one)", in the nicest possible way. Yet again...
Risky business
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 28, 2020 13:07 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week's take on Scottish politics definitely has risk at its core. A minutes silence at 11 this morning for Workers' Memorial Day was dedicated to key staff in the NHS and care system.But were they put in danger by UK government negligence over the supply of PPE? When we compare how smal...
Trust never sleeps
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 21, 2020 12:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs lockdown continues, despite the growing murmurings from some quarters that it should end, the UK Parliament is set to amend its arcane procedures to allow remote working. We ask if the way Westminster works is fit for purpose, and the very nature of , what passes for, debate and government...
WHO are you?
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 15, 2020 12:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs Donald Trump plays the blame game with the World Health Organisation Lesley kicks off this episode trying to get to grips with why certain countries appear to have coped with the Covid 19 crisis substantially better than the UK and the USA. Here's a wee hint contact tracing and testing. W...
Declarations and departures
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 07, 2020 12:47 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's an outside broadcast this week as Lesley takes advantage of the sunny weather to join me from the back step of her cottage. Saturday saw the launch of the Declaration of Arbroath movie made by Lesley and filmmaker Charlie Stuart. This in the deafening silence surrounding the 700th anniver...
Scores and scams
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 31, 2020 13:24 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week saw polls showing almost unprecedented support for incumbent governments across the globe. Lesley tries to explain this phenomenon and speculates on what the lasting effects will be on politics , and most importantly, people power. Has Covid 19 killed its first democracy as the Hunga...
2020 Vision
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 24, 2020 12:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter the major announcements last night by the Scottish and UK governments extending the emergency measures to combat the spread of Covid 19 there was only one way to begin this week's podcast. Lesley examines the bit by bit approach taken by the UK government and we speculate on whether the ...
Keep your distance
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 17, 2020 13:11 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe recorded this episode which, quite naturally, focuses on the impact of Covid 19 using Skype, for sound reasons that Lesley outlines . So please bear with us as it was our first time. Covid 19 takes up the vast majority of this week's podcast. Lots of thoughts from both of us on its social...
Corona and contempt
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 10, 2020 14:19 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley,currently freed from her two columns a week,visited Low Moss Prison and was wowed by the experience. We can't escape from Covid-19 and we look at the coverage it's receiving.I'm less than complimentary about Newsnight but far more impressed by Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp. Not only ...
In plain sight
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 03, 2020 13:24 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley's back and so is the podcast. Estonia regained its independence in 1991 and Lesley went there to make another in her series of groundbreaking films exploring our Nordic neighbours. She reports back on what she found and makes a surprising revelation. Lesley was struck by the lack of b...
Gaming the system
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 18, 2020 13:18 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere was only one way to begin this week's podcast ,it was the bizarre claim by Jackson Carlaw, newly anointed Scottish Tory leader, that around half of the Scot's electorate were adherents of a cult. Lesley eviscerates this ludicrous suggestion and we try and figure out what his strategy was...
That's hut
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 11, 2020 13:29 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe campaign for A Thousand Huts launched in 2011 by Reforesting Scotland– a network which has campaigned for over 20 years for a sustainable forest culture in Scotland-held a rally in Dundee last Saturday. It'll come as no surprise to you that Lesley was there, and she gives her thoughts, not...
One step beyond
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 04, 2020 14:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLast Friday when it would have been easy to have shut the door and try and forget the UK dragging Scotland out of the EU against our democratic will,thousands of Scots took themselves out on a dreich night to sing, dance, and celebrate. Lesley pays tribute to the folk who organised these event...
A European Commission
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - January 28, 2020 14:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley was part of the final, for now, Scottish press corps briefing with the EU in Brussels last week. She's back with some genuinely jaw dropping information from the event.That light at the end of the Brexiteers' tunnel looks ever more like the express train heading towards us at breakneck ...
The Brit is back
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - January 20, 2020 20:11 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley and I swore that we'd never do another evening recording session.Yet here we are as she's off to visit the European Union tomorrow. More of the EU later. We begin with the annual resurrection of the Broon frae Kirkcaldy who made another , well trailed,"keynote"speech today on the perils...
Guests of the nation
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - January 13, 2020 19:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley is fresh from Saturday's AUOB march in Glasgow and is still buzzing from the carnival atmosphere. As is right, and fitting, we begin this week's podcast with this, yet another, fantastic day. Alister Jack, the Secretary of State for Scotland appeared on Sunday Politics Scotland and ret...
Not a game
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - January 07, 2020 13:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe, not so, dynamic duo make our return after the Christmas and Hogmanay break, having just about survived our bouts of lurgy. The recriminations and "period of reflection" in both Scottish and UK Labour,post the General Election defeat,have been brought into even sharper focus with the annou...
Parts of the union
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - December 17, 2019 13:28 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's the last podcast of 2019 and the new Westminster Parliament reconvenes with Boris Johnson's election pledge to "Get Brexit done"still ringing in our ears. And we begin with discussing Johnson's latest moves on the EU Withdrawal Bill and what attitude the EU might take to the prospect of a...
Up until Swinson
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - December 13, 2019 18:08 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's the afternoon after the late night before and Lesley and I try to make sense of the results of the General Election. Lesley,unashamedly, starts by looking at the tremendous showing by the SNP, and, in so doing,gives me the telling off I deserve. The rest of the podcast is taken up with ...
A matter of trust
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - December 10, 2019 13:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's two days until polling and we kick off with trying to work our way through yesterday's big stories around gaffes,punches, and gaming the media. However we move on to go behind the headlines and question if this focus is obscuring the real issues, and if the resulting loss of public trust ...
We gotta get out of this place
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - December 03, 2019 14:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley took a few days out in Rotterdam to recharge her batteries at a Sibelius concert. She also attended a service at the Scots Presbyterian Church. Though not a practising Christian, she didn't realise how much spiritual sustenance she needed. She also spent time with former Labour minister...
On the QT
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - November 26, 2019 13:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs Boris Johnson flew up to Scotland to launch the Scottish Tory manifesto has the SNP pulled off a master stroke by announcing its ground breaking, in UK terms, extension of paternity leave? Labour has also been forcing the issue on WASPI women but is it too late to the party and can it be tr...
No Compare
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - November 19, 2019 14:14 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs the General Election campaigns pick up pace we take a,somewhat sceptical, look at how Labour's policies are being ignored,particularly on the BBC, in favour of highlighting party in fighting. Lesley focuses on Labour's plan for public sector broadband and wonders if it could be a game chang...
Freedom come all ye
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - November 12, 2019 13:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter some merry badinage regarding Jo Swinson's strangled vowels and ever shifting accent, we get down to serious business. The BBC has come under fire over Wreathgate, we discuss just what might have happened and the "robust" defence of the BBC position by Rob Burley. Lesley wonders if you c...
Promises,promises
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - November 05, 2019 14:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA European Arrest Warrant for Clara Ponsati,on charges of sedition, was issued by Spain just before we recorded today's podcast.We give our initial reactions to the shocking news. Lesley was at the National's Yes rally in George Square last Saturday and she reveals who she thought was the most...
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