The rallies taking place all over Scotland and around Europe on Wednesday teatime to show support for Scotland's right to choose independence, no matter the decision of the Supreme Court, rightly lead this week's episode. We also look at *that* NHS story and the latest Tory budget.

Hunt's Autumn Statement and that £50 billion "black hole". The US midterms, what happened to that red wave? The Qatar football World Cup.

A bumper episode after missing last week. COP27, climate change and carbon offsetting. That Starmer BBC Scotland interview, Sunak's weaknesses, immigration and emigration.

While Britain struggles with sky-high bills, and private water, electricity and oil companies make record profits, Finland relies on a unique system of economic shock absorbers. Cooperatives deliver everything from water and electricity to hotel breaks and ferries. They started in the late 1800s and today there are more cooperative memberships than Finns. How does it work? Lesley visited Finland this summer to find out.

Rishi Sunak becomes Prime Minister and pledges to be a compassionate Conservative who will restore integrity,stability and trust. Do his Cabinet appointments bear this out? How will Sir Keir Starmer cope with a very different political animal from Truss and Johnson?

As the "safe pair of hands" Jeremy Hunt takes over as Chancellor is Liz Truss now PM in name only? Is the Scottish Government's Building a New Scotland: A stronger economy with independence a prudent and calm prospectus for an independent Scotland or capitulation to the markets?

The final speeches of Liz Truss and Nicola Sturgeon threw into sharp relief not just their vastly different communication skills but the chasm in their beliefs and values. We discuss this, the SNP annual conference itself, the aftermath of that "I detest the Tories" remark, the impending collapse of the housing market, and the opening salvoes of the Supreme Court hearing on indyref2.

The disaster of the "mini-budget" nearly crashed the UK's pension funds and saw a massive drop in value of sterling with calls from Tory big beasts to reverse the plans to borrow to fund tax cuts with threats of a back bench rebellion. Truss and Kwarteng caved and u-turned but can they survive?

Sir Keir Starmer closed the Labour Party annual conference as polls showed a 17-point lead over the Tories. We examine what he said, and how he said it. The SNP published their conference agenda what's in, what's out, and what impact will Labour's policy announcements have?

In this podcast Pat flies solo and is in conversation with fellow Lawsider, and Arab, Jîm Spence about their home city, Dundee.