The Scottish Independence Podcast

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This episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast is the audio from a speech in The Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk by Robin McAlpine of the Reid Foundation.

In the speech he outlines the Common Weal vision for Scotland.

Hope you enjoy…

LINKS
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-common-weal-we-need-you-to-build-a-better-scotland

http://reidfoundation.org/

For the second episode of this week I spoke to Paul Leinster, who is a member of both Labour For Indy and Republic Scot.

We talked about the Labour For Indy group itself and the hostile reaction to it by some within the (not for Indy) Labour party.

We also talked about Republic Scotland and how much support they receive within and outwith Holyrood. Is it certain we will keep the monarchy after a Yes vote?

Finally we spoke about Paul himself and why someone who is a member of the Labour party and was once a unionist was first convinced by the arguments (economic and more) to vote independence and then further to actively campaign for it.

LINKS

https://twitter.com/Paauul
https://twitter.com/mgreenwell
https://twitter.com/labourforindy
https://twitter.com/RepublicScot
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

For the 32nd episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast (well, actually if you count the specials it is more than that, call it the 32nd interview) I spoke with Lynda Williamson, who works at Newsnet Scotland.

We spoke about how Newsnet got started. What were the reasons and motivations for setting up? What do they hope to achieve with it?

From there we moved on to to Lynda's reasons for supporting Independence and finally on to the broader media scene in Scotland, why things generally tend to come from one side more than the other, and who else is trying to provide a corrective.

Hope you enjoy…

LINKS
https://twitter.com/snowthistle
https://twitter.com/mgreenwell
http://newsnetscotland.com/
https://twitter.com/NewsnetScotland
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

A different little kind of podcast today. No interviews, no guests.

I won't give the game away too much. Just have a listen and I hope you enjoy it.

I can also promise it is one of the few political shows (that aren't all female) where the females outnumber the males.

Hope you enjoy...

LINKS
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

This is a special edition of the podcast featuring some music, some opinions from the crowd and some of the speeches from the Independence Rally in Edinburgh on 21st September 2014.

The idea is to give those of you who were there a nice little keepsake of it, and for those like me who were unfortunate enough not to be able to make it, to give an idea of what went on.

I'm well aware of course that the best thing about going to this type of political event is not the speeches, but rather the people you meet and the camaraderie. However, it's quite difficult to put that onto an MP3 so this is the best I can do for the podcast!

There are many speakers featured including four who have featured on the podcast before (Carolyn Leckie, Patrick Harvie, Colin Fox, Alan Bissett). There were also contributions from Elaine C Smith, Hardeep Singh Kholi and many others.

Songs include work by Citizen Smart, as well as someone playing in the street!

Hope you enjoy...

The complicated web of highly technical computer interfaces we use to make our podcasts seems to have reached a level of intelligence on its own.

It has brought the Scottish Independence Podcast episode from the 19th September 2014 back in time one year.

I feel it is my civic duty to publish it...

For our 35th episode Andrew and I were joined by James Maxwell and Kate Higgins.

James has been over to Catalonia to see what's happening in their independence campaign. Can parallels be drawn between what's happening there and what is happening in Scotland? Moreover, SHOULD parallels be drawn between Scotland and the various other independent movements around the world, or is our situation unique?

A lot of people were asking where Johann Lamont was during the summer. Well, she came back with an errrm, interesting accusation in last week's FMQs. What does this say about the Labour press department and more widely their strategy and competence.

The new Scottish budget came out this week. Is Swinney doing well? How difficult is it to keep the wheels turning in the face of what is (or isn't) coming from Westminster.

Finally, a year to go! How are you going to spend it?

Andrew and I were joined by two guests for the 34th episode of the For A' That podcast.

Making his second appearance was Pat Kane, and making his first was James Kelly, who writes the blog Scot Goes Pop.

The first topic of discussion was the errrm, debate, between Nicola Sturgeon and Anas Sarwar. We didn't talk about it in glowing terms.

Gordon Brown making another appearance in the debate got a look in. Were his proposed constitutional changes just hot air or do they actually mean something? Also Brown himself, a confusing (surely confused?) figure at the best of times.

Should we be trying to rock the boat more and strike out with a bold vision of a new Scotland or should we be trying to allay the fears that some people have about Indy.

In a week of wildly differing polls, we asked if they matter.

LINKS
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/
http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/thoughtland
http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1

For the 33rd episode of the For A' That podcast Andrew and I were joined by Thomas Widmann who blogs about the Indy debate, from a Scandinavian perspective (he is a Dane but has lived in Scotland for more than 10 years) at Arc of Prosperity.

As we took last week off there was a lot to get through.

Our first topic was the Bulmer £100 story.

We then moved on to the recent poll by YouGov - was it disappointing or disappointingly done?

"Undecideds" are a big point of discussion - who the hell are they?

We had a few things to say about the Bill Walker story and not all of them were complimentary.

We reserved the same kind of analysis that we gave to the royal baby story for the threat that Scotland could be kicked out of the Commonwealth if it became independent.

We also had time to discuss the rather bizarre statement by James MacMillan and his dispute with National Collective.

Hope you enjoy

LINKS

http://www.arcofprosperity.org/
https://twitter.com/mgreenwell
https://twitter.com/PeatWorrier
https://twitter.com/arcofprosperity
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/
http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/