The Lesley Riddoch Podcast

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 Lesley is in Gothenburg for this episode and while she focuses on its sustainable transport system Pat still manages to get in his lasting pain over the 1987 UEFA Cup Final defeat for Dundee United.
Lesley's latest article in The National certainly got the comments flying in its call to focus on the big issues facing the SNP and the broader Yes movement rather than engaging in grieving and gloating. We try and get beneath the reactions to the core of what challenges and opportunities face the SNP membership before the annual conference.

Meanwhile Rishi Sunak on his flying visit to the Scottish Tory Party Conference decided that it was a braw idea to exclude the majority of the Scottish press from his post speech press conference. To say that this backfired was an understatement.

It can't have escaped our notice, despite at best, apathy in Scotland, that this Saturday will see the coronation of Charles III. We reflect on the pomp and circumstance and the possible own goal by the English Premier League requesting that clubs play the national anthem before all games. A precedent not followed by the Scottish football authorities. We also discuss the tensions inherent in being Scottish FM and a republican for Humza Yousaf and compare his situation with that of Michelle O'Neil leader of Sinn Fein, who'll also be attending the coronation.

Edinburgh University cancelled the showing of the documentary Adult Human Female on safety grounds after action by trans rights protestors. This seems to have had a knock-on effect with Joanna Cherry's appearance at The Stand Comedy Club as part of a series of shows during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe also being cancelled due to staff concerns. 

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