Latest Scottish independence Podcast Episodes
Election Fever
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 30, 2019 12:34 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWell chums a week was definitely a long time in politics because after yesterday's votes at Westminster we're now heading for a general election on December the 12th. We try and examine the myriad of permutations over voting intentions and party stances and wonder if the real issues such as clim...
The Twilight Zone
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 22, 2019 21:09 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis was yet another in the long list of "the most important days yet" in the Brexit saga. Both Lesley and I spent the vast majority of the day following the blethering skites in Westminster waiting for the two votes at 7 and 7.30 tonight. The government won the first to secure the second read...
Keep it zipped
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 18, 2019 12:38 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhile I was away sunning myself in Madeira Lesley was attending the SNP annual conference in Aberdeen where she may have mentioned setting up a new political party. Lesley gives the background to this and vents her frustrations at the SNP's timidity in tackling burning issues of domestic policy....
It is hard to keep up
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 04, 2019 13:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPaddy is on holiday and it hasn't been a quiet week. Between Brexit, Rory the Tory, Joanna Cherry, the EU extending, Land and Housing on Skye, a brief detour into Facebook and smacking bans; it has been hard to keep up with the flood of new developments. Recorded early on Friday morning after Ro...
11 nil
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 24, 2019 12:59 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Supreme court's unanimous decision to declare Boris Johnson's prorogation of Parliament not only unlawful but null and void takes up the majority of this week's podcast. We consider the central role of the "Scottish case", brought by Joanna Cherry QC MP and others in this momentous ruling....
Heroes and villains
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 17, 2019 12:56 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOn the morning that the Supreme Court convened to hear the appeals on the Joanna Cherry and Gina Miller cases Lesley reminds us that climate change is still the big issue. However we can't resist the siren call of prorogation and the constitutional crisis for long and we do discuss the Supreme...
Up until Black Rod
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 10, 2019 12:58 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn,yet another in the series of,most momentous weeks for the UK Parliament we inevitably begin with last night's events at Westminster. Lesley,wisely,was in her bed as they unfolded.Daft lad here could not resist the siren call of "Division" from Speaker,John Bercow. As per usual we try and ma...
Late night sitting
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 03, 2019 22:52 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOn a day which began with Nicola Sturgeon presenting the Programme for Government with the climate emergency and indyref2 at its core and ended with senior Tories like Kenneth Clarke and Philip Hammond being expelled from the Tory Party, Lesley and I try to make sense of it all. We recorded th...
Love it to death
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 27, 2019 12:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter an opening salvo on the perils and dubious pleasures of digital technology and assembling hose systems (trust me it's more interesting than it sounds) we move on to discuss the modern phenomenon of so-called dirty camping. A symptom of our disposable culture or something more? As Corbyn ...
Them not you
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 20, 2019 12:22 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe spend the first part of this week's podcast on the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. You'll find out what Lesley liked,why I don't go,very often,and the part it plays in Scotland's culture,for good or ill. Fans of the Tattoo should probably look away now. Iain Duncan Smith, he of welfare r...
The Arrangement
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 12, 2019 10:09 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere has been a slew of articles by journalists and commentators down south supporting Scottish independence. Lesley tries, and succeeds, to tease out just what's going on. Gordon Brown, in stark contrast, remerged to issue dire warnings about "disruptive and divisive nationalism". We questio...
It's good to be back
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 05, 2019 12:08 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe return after a three week hiatus as a survey by pollster Lord Ashcroft put backing for Scottish independence at 46 per cent, with 43 per cent against. Support for independence rose to 52 per cent, with 48 per cent against, when those who said they did not know how they would vote or said th...
Boiling frogs
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 16, 2019 11:21 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley found herself at the centre of a Twitter pile on when she raised how cold the working conditions were for staff at her local Tesco store. She discovered there was a lot more to it than face value when she responded to the criticism, not only in terms of the treatment of workers but the cl...
Game Changers
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 09, 2019 11:25 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Women’s World Cup in France was an unprecedented success in terms of media coverage and popular interest but Lesley questions just what the legacy, if any, will be for the women’s game in Scotland. Lesley was one of the distinguished panel, which sat in Edinburgh, courtesy of the Electoral...
Not my circus
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 25, 2019 16:26 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley’s just back from the Community Land Scotland conference at Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye where the rural housing crisis, facing young people in particular, was the key topic. Lesley questions whether the Scottish government is doing enough to tackle the desperate situation particularly, in ...
The Con men
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 19, 2019 13:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's the morning after the night before and, as we promised, we try and dissect the Tory party leadership debate on BBC 1. We focus, not just on the performances of the candidates, but the format and the poison chalice of chairing handed to Emily Maitliss. The latest YouGov poll revealed tha...
The Selectorate
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 11, 2019 19:20 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe kick off this week’s podcast with the unavoidable bunfight that is the race for the Tory party leadership (I defy you to name the 10th contender without Googling him). Lesley focuses on the broadcast media’s coverage of what is an entirely internal Conservative party issue but one with majo...
Powers and levers
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - June 04, 2019 13:03 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley has just submitted her, nine years in the making, PhD thesis on the Norwegian and Scottish hutting movements. She reflects on what these two very different experiences can tell us about the economics of power lying beneath the surface of UK democracy. This leads us, neatly I reckon, int...
Gubbed
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 28, 2019 12:45 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsUnsurprisingly the European Parliament elections take up most of this week's podcast. We try and analyse the results across the UK and Europe not only in terms of Brexit but their implications for our domestic political parties and Scottish independence. Along the way I might just touch ...
Milkshakes and martyrdom
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 21, 2019 13:27 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's a week of political limbo as we wait for Theresa May's "big" announcement on her reshaped EU Withdrawal Bill and the EU elections on Thursday. The latest polls for those elections showed growing support for the Brexit Party right across the UK. In Scotland the SNP is still way ahead but i...
Democratic deficits
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 15, 2019 11:35 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAndrew Marr interviewed Damian Hinds (he’s the current Education Secretary-nope me neither) and Nigel Farage on his show this Sunday. Both were on to talk about the European Parliamentary elections. Both had to try and do this without the benefit of their parties issuing manifestos. Lesley p...
March to the beat of a different drum
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - May 10, 2019 12:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSaturday saw over 100,000 supporters of Scottish independence march through Glasgow. Lesley was there and gives her impressions of what it was like out on the streets and the reflects on the continuing commitment to the cause of the grass roots movement. All of this despite brickbats from some o...
Civil Disobedience
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 30, 2019 15:15 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley made her first appearance on BBC Scotland's Debate Night last Sunday and she wonders if, in trying not to be the bear pit of Question Time, it has become too staid. This leads us neatly, well in my mind anyway, into Nicola Sturgeon's declaration, at the SNP Party Conference, of a Climat...
Catalonia.Aftermath
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 26, 2019 13:24 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley was in Catalonia last week for the Books and Roses Festival. What she found there was so important that we thought we'd create a wee Aftermath special. So, here it is.
Game on?
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 26, 2019 12:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's an extra-long (time for two sets of ironing) podcast this week and we spend most of it discussing Nicola Sturgeon's statement on Indyref2 in Holyrood this Wednesday. While we look at the reaction to it from across the political spectrum Lesley focuses on the questions arising from the bro...
Polls and Taxes
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 18, 2019 10:44 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley went to a fringe meeting at the STUC annual conference on local government finance reform and we kick off this week's podcast with this. And if you thought I was an anorak on the D'Hondt Formula...... Seriously, Lesley goes on to explore the nature of local democracy in the light of rec...
Decades of Deference
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 09, 2019 13:53 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt was the Scottish Greens' party conference last weekend and we spend a fair amount of time looking at Tommy Sheppard's suggestion that some form of electoral pact be reached between them and the SNP in the 2021 Holyrood elections. How far should the Greens, their supporters, and other nonalign...
Part of the Union
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - April 02, 2019 13:03 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsYet again it's another morning after the Westminster night before and Lesley and I attempt to unpick the Gordian knot of indicative votes on Brexit. I won't try and unravel what we cover in this episode in detail but we range across who voted for what; the arcane and archaic House of Commons v...
Who are the grown ups?
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 21, 2019 15:54 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe astonishing twists and turns of the events of the past couple of days over Brexit fill this week's entire episode . Rather than my usual set of meanderings here I'll let you listen to the podcast as we don't half cover a whole lot of ground. Our conclusions? Well, our final duet statemen...
Saman.Together
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 11, 2019 13:50 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs is so often in our podcasts Lesley has just returned from one of the Nordics. This time it's Iceland where she was attending a three-day (well it was three days for most delegates Ms Riddoch) conference on how they solved the substance abuse and anti-social behaviour epidemic among its young ...
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