This month we enjoy a welcome respite from the flurry of new Prime Ministers and Monarchs that has taken up so much of our attention since the summer.

Instead, this month we have something a little bit different - a selection of the best speeches and clips from the recent Opposition Day debate at Westminster.  The topic for the debate was whether Scotland can afford to remain in the UK.   This took place just before the result of the Supreme Court case but the points raised are still valid regardless of the process we have to go through to achieve our desired outcome of Scotland becoming a normal, independent country with fairness and the wellbeing of its citizens at its heart.  

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Guests Dr Tim Rideout and former senior banker Ian Stewart from the Scottish Currency Group join us to discuss the latest of the Scottish Government's papers "A stronger economy with independence".  

You can find the paper at https://gov.scot/newscotland  

In the discussion we also refer to our earlier interview we did with Dr Kirsty Hughes, which was broadcast as our Scottish Independence Podcast episode on 18th October 

We also broadcast the full version of First Minster's press conference to launch the Scotgov paper on this podcast on 25th October and we use selected clips from that event in this episode also.

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Music  is:

Motivational Upbeat Corporate by RinkevichMusic https://soundcloud.com/rinkevichmusic Video Link: https://youtu.be/U78mgVaM12M

This weeks podcast is a timely episode of the TNT show where host John Drummond chats with Aileen McHarg, Professor of Public Law and Human Rights at Durham University.

Naturally the conversation includes the Supreme Court case on the legality or otherwise of Holyrood legislating for an independence referendum

Completing our mini series of keynote speeches from  this Autumn's conference season for the main Scottish independence parties, this is Alex Salmond, leader of the Alba party.

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The second in our coverage from the Autumn 22 conference season, in this episode we have speeches from the Scottish Green Party's co leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie

A year on from COP 26 in Glasgow, what have we achieved and what are our aspirations for COP27 in Egypt?  Also looks at the very difficult situation facing activists in Egypt and what we could be doing here in Scotland to support them.

Host Iain Bruce chats with Fatemah Khafagy, an Egyptian feminist and Beckie Kenton-Lake of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland.  

After the drama of September's events, could we look forward to a nice quiet October?  Let's find out...

Bits and Pieces that have caught our attention this month include:

Trouble with Trussonomics

Unfair energy prices

Is it OK to detest the Tories?

Education highlights

Supreme Court Case

Liz on the ropes

Are we Ready for Richie, er Rishi?

The third in the series of briefing papers from the Scottish Government was launched with a press conference with the usual suspects in attendance asking the predictable questions.   As always, the First Minister answers all questions put to her without even once running away and hiding in a fridge. 

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On the eve of the publication of the latest Scotgov paper on the economy of an independent Scotland, Yes Skye and Lochalsh held an informative event with guest Ian Stewart. Ian is a retired senior banker at RBS Global, former director of Switch Card Services and an active member of the Scottish Currency Group. In this conversation, Ian explains the key proposals of the Scottish Currency Group and answers a range of questions from the audience.

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Bonus Tuesday episode!

Our guest on the Mibbes Aye show this week is Dr Kirsty Hughes, writer, political commentator and former Director of the Scottish Centre for European Relations.  We put some key questions about EO/EFTA membership to Kirsty, including: 

• what is the process for applying to join?

and many more.  

There are shareable versions of each of the main questions on our Indylive Extra Youtube channel - please feel free to share them around anyone you think would be interested!