The Scottish Independence Podcast

This time Ivan and I did a little Saturday review show. Where are we at in the campaign? Where's it going to go from here? Is Project Fear 2 going to work?

We also have William Duguid on the latest barkings of the Milibeing and the concept that Scotland was encouraged to lead, and not leave, the united (sic) kingdom (capitals deliberately not used).

This time I spoke with Kathleen Caskie on the theme that we're hearing a lot lately, namely that it is somehow illegitimate that SNP MPs (or Plaid for that matter) should be involved in government business in Westminster.

In this episode I speak with Dr Morag Kerr. Morag is a veterinary surgeon and also the author of Adequately Explained By Stupidity, a book about the Lockerbie disaster.

We talked about Cameron's plan to hold a free vote on legalising hunting and more generally about the case against hunting, and for better animal welfare policies.

In this episode I spoke to Robin McAlpine about the minimum wage and the living wage. Why aren't they the same thing? What are the differences between the various parties on these issues.

More importantly, is there a better way to look at the while issue?

William Duguid has excelled himself again too. This time he's keeping us all up to date on the latest from the Ministry of Patronising Pish.

In this episode Ivan and I had a chat about TTIP. What are the big problems with it, why is it so secretive and why don't the coalition government and that other neoliberal party seem to want to use some of the veto powers that are rumoured to be in there?

William Duguid's Terminalogical Inexactitude of the day this time features the Tories getting caught out on one yesterday.

This time I was joined by writer, tutor, campaigner, ex-cop & more than I can put here, Karen Campbell.

We talked about a recent statistic showing that a much higher percentage of women in Scotland, as compared to England are likely to vote. Why would that be so?

Also, we talked about the broader situation and why Scotland is not "going back in the box".

#DollGate and now the #WorstCrisisSinceTheAbdication. It appears that Project Fear has morphed into Project Hysteria, this was our topic today.

Silliness apart, who is this all aimed at, what does it say about Old V New media and is it likely to have much of an effect?

In this episode, as requested, we had a chat about how this election may affect the Scottish Parliament election in 2016. We also had a word about what it is actually like being down at Westminster.

In this episode I was joined by Gillian Martin from Women for Independence.

We talked about a story that pro-union parties are fond of repeating (and sticking on leaflets), specifically that under the SNP college places have fallen. However, as she pointed out in her blog, the truth is somewhat different from the soundbites.

We also talked about the importance of maintaining free higher education in Scotland or indeed any other society.

As we get closer to the election it appears that project fear is on its way back, but this time ... it's England. Yes, the Tories are trying to hard to scare the living daylights out of the English voters in order to stop them voting Labour. Ivan and I had a chat about if it's likely to work or not.

Also, William Duguid speaks of the Libdems and what to make of their promises - there's a meal ticket in there somewhere.