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In this week's episode we discuss the U turn by the Westminster Government on the winter fuel allowance. Where is the money coming from and how is it going to be paid for? We ask what happend to the accusations levelled at the SNP when they rose to the challenge and reinstated the payment ahead of the Westminster Government. We look too at the impact on the SNP's policy, with Labour trying to make it look as if the Scottish payment will just be £100? It won't. We try to clear some of that up.

We talk about the aftermath of the Hamilton by-election and that there's no getting away from it, it was a really bad loss by the SNP. There was no mention of independence and the candidate was not as local as the truly local David Russell. We look at how the election played out and wheter that local connection is what mattered in an era where people have lost trust in parties.

We examine what that says about the candidates chosen so far by the SNP in the Scottish election. We look as well at Israel and Gaza. Breaking news that the British government has taken sanctions out against two Israeli cabinet members. But that's not going to go anywhere near placating the 300 civil servants who've written a letter objecting to the British government's support of the Israeli government and have been told that if they want to keep objecting, they can resign.

That and much more.

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Watch The Applecross film on YouTube https://youtu.be/J0kUgdms368
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Scotland 2070: Healthy Wealthy and Wise
https://scotland2070.org/

Common Weal: Common Home Plan
https://www.commonweal.scot/policies/the-common-home-plan/

Build Canada Homes
https://liberal.ca/housing-plan/

Sam Cotes - Sky The five considerable problems with the chancellor's U-turn on winter fuel payments
https://news.sky.com/story/the-five-key-issues-from-chancellors-winter-fuel-payment-u-turn-13381413

SSE Press Release
Critical Skye electricity transmission upgrade granted planning consent
https://www.sse.com/news-and-views/2025/05/critical-skye-electricity-transmission-upgrade-granted-planning-consent/

Scottish Government planning case and documents
https://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationDetails.aspx?cr=ECU00003395

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