CommonSpace Podcasts

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to Kirsty Hughes Director Scottish Centre on European Relations on the week Britain leaves the EU.

They discuss:

1:17 – What comes next for the UK and Scotland regarding Brexit, what’s the timeline of the coming months?

10:24 – Can ‘independence in Europe’ survive Brexit and the exit of the UK from the European single market and customs union?

16:31 – Will Brexit create further problem’s for the SNP’s position on currency in an independent Scotland?

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to George Kerevan, economist, columnist at the National and former SNP MP about how the independence movement should adapt to the threat from Boris Johnson.

They discuss:

1:34 – What does Boris Johnson’s rebuttal to the independence movement mean, and how will he pursue an offensive strategy against the independence movement?

9:12 – How should the Scottish Government respond to this new strategy?

13:06 – Beyond the Scottish Government, how should the broader independence movement change to face the new threat?

17: 08 – How has the case for independence been impacted by Johnson and Brexit?

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to Dr Nick McKerrel, a senior law lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and an expert on constitutional law.

They discuss:

00:59 – What does the refusal of the section 30 order tell us about the balance of forces in the constitutional wrangle between Edinburgh and London?

8:30 – Has the new impasse exposed the weaknesses of SNP’s long run strategy for independence?

12:02 – Are we now living in post-referenda era Britain?

21:47 – Is there an international legal superstructure that could pressurise the UK to accept Scotland’s right to a vote?

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to James Foley and Pete Ramand, co-authors of 'Yes: The radical case for independence' about the 2019 General Election and what it tells us about the future of the Scottish independence movement.

1:45 – Why Labour lost the election.

16:21 – How ‘left paternalism’ became a problem for Labour’s campaign.

27:27 – Why the Scottish independence referendum may be able to shine some light on how popular electoral politics can be approached differently.

31:50 – How the General Election outcome in Scotland poses new opportunities and problems for the independence movement.

46:04 – What form the confrontation between Edinburgh and Westminster will take in coming years.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to freelance journalist and columnist Caitlin Logan about the fallout for the 2019 General Election.

1:24 – What is the scale of Labour’s defeat? How has it changed the electoral map?

6:48 – What explains the success of the Conservatives?

10:52 – Is this the SNP’s most significant ever victory?

17:46 – Why ‘the centre’ still failed to materialise.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to CommonSpace editor Sean Bell about the nature of the 2019 General Election, the campaigns of the various parties and what they mean for Scotland.

They discuss:

55:00 – How should we characterise the 2019 General Election? What have it’s main dynamics and arguments been?

11:58 – What has the SNP’s campaign been like, underlined as it is by their continuing strong polling position?

15:11 – Why the Tories have followed a policy of “studious disengagement” during the election?

17:44 – How the Liberal Democrats and Brexit Party were marginalised.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to activist and commentator Jonathon Shafi about the opening days of an historic general election.

They discuss:

00:42 – How well have the three major parties – Labour, Tory and SNP – faired in the first few days of the election campaign?

3:50 – Will the SNP campaign on a clear pro-independence stance?

12:20 – Can the Lib Dem vote hold up, and will the first past the post system re-consolidate the vote around Labour and the Conservatives?

17:05 – Can Corbyn pull-off a transformative election victory that puts a cap on decades of Thatcherism?

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to Stephen Smellie, trade unionist and co-convener of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan about Turkey's invasion of northern Syria and parts of the Kurdish territories following US military withdraw.

They discuss:

1:39 – Why the Kurdish people in northern Syria are facing the threat of ‘ethnic cleansing’.

2:53 – How US President Trump gave a green light for Turkey’s attack.

3:18 – Why resistance from within Nato countries like the UK matters.

19:39 – What people in Scotland can do immediately to show solidarity.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to Walden Bello, one of the most prolific and articulate voices critiquing capitalism and globalisation in recent decades, and the author of three new books exploring the crisis of globalisation, the rise of the far right and the consequences of the Chinese model for the global system.

Jamieson spoke to Bello as part of his recent visit to Scotland organised by Global Justice Now Scotland.

In a wide-ranging interview, they discuss:

1:21 – What does the rise of the authoritarian new far right look like outside of the west, where it is usually studied – as exemplified by Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines?

9:29 – Why was is the right reaping the benefit of an increasing rejection of neoliberal globalisation, when it is the left which for decades has campaigned against its damaging effects?

28:36 – How should the left in the UK respond to crisis of globalisation in the form of Brexit. In Scotland, how do supporters of independence navigate that cause around relations to the global system?

35:32 – Why the Chinese model, apparently so robust in the face of the 2008 crisis, is coming into crisis. And why it matters for the whole world.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to the heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN this week’s podcast, Jamieson speaks to Bill Ramsay, veteran SNP, CND and trade union activist, about how a long term commitment to Scottish independence was impacted by the independence movement of 2014.

They discuss:

2:01 – What drew people into the SNP decades before Scottish independence would become a mass movement?

11:45 – How much did the issue of Scottish independence actually inform the day-to-day politics of SNP members? Was the SNP a vehicle for other political ideas in past decades?

17:29 – The SNP’s painful shift from political party routinism to social movement activity.

31:21 – Do subsequent events, including Brexit, force us to rethink how independence might actually be achieved?