Scottish Independence Podcasts

Welcome to our roundup of topical clips and snippets for January 2024.  Main themes covered this month are:

00:00:53  Calling out war crimes

00:05:47  Covid enquiry

00:09:35  Scottish budget

00:15:48…

A selection of poetry for Burns Night:

Rabbie Burns by Angus Shoor Caan

To A Country by Lynne Dougan

A Wee Mouse by Angus Shoor Caan

Boreas by Sheila Nichols, read by Fiona McGregor

Rabbie by Angus S…

One of the many excellent and fascinating panel discussions held at the Breakup of Britain conference. This discussion poses the question what next for SNP after Sturgeon and Labour under Starmer.  T…

Award winning broadcaster Lesley Riddoch joins us to chat about her new film Denmark: the State of Happiness. 
The film is currently on tour all around Scotland with a Q+A session with Lesley at each…

We are grateful to Yes Skye and Lochalsh for sharing their evening with Commonweal's Robin McAlpine explaining the highlights of his new strategy paper entitled "Direction: A Realistic Strategy for A…

Yes to Yasuni - an episode of Rising Clyde with host Iain Bruce

This year the people of Ecuador struck a major blow for climate justice, by voting to leave the oil in the soil beneath the Yasuní Nati…

Join us for our last roundup of topical clips for 2023!
Topics include:

00:00:50 Covid come-uppance for Johnson and Mone

00:05:45 George Monbiot savages the Tory Rwanda Bill

00:08:40 Alison Thewlis p…

Indypodcasters Fiona, Marlene and Lynne spent a day at the Festival for Survival in Glasgow which brought together an international group of experts and activists to discuss the twin crises of nuclea…

This is part 3 of our mini series examining the SNP's independence strategy, this time from the perspective of other independence parties.

Presenters Fiona and Marlene were joined by guests Colin Fox…

Highlights from the RIC conference held in October 2023 on the theme of "Breaking the Impasse"

00:00:25 - Welcome from Chair Bob Gropilot, RIC

00:01:47  - speaker Kevin, Socialists for Independence

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Our Rising Clyde episode this month reports from COP28 in Dubai. 

Dubai is the seventh biggest exporter of oil in the world and the President of this COP is himself the President of the Abu Dhabi Oil…

Topical snippets from Scottish politics and activism in November:

00:01:08  Festival for Survival opening by Lynn Jamieson 

00:04:09  Jean Urquhart marches in Ullapool

00:06:07  Revive conference ope…

00:00:16 What is Future Voices?

00:04:33 Health and Happiness

00:09:18 A Fair Society

00:17:07 Clean and Green

00:22:00 Prosperity

00:26:38 Our Democracy

00:36:55 Launch night

00:41:41 Community

00:4…

Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie delivered a speech to the Autumn conference of the Scottish Green Party in October.  In both speeches they reflect on a year of Greens in Government and look forward t…

For the second in our mini series on the way forward for independence, Indypodcasters Fiona and Marlene invite three SNP members who were at the Autumn conference to share their thoughts on the indep…

Scottish Independence Podcasts support Scottish Independence but we are not party political.  The route to independence concerns everyone in the Yes movement and there is by no means consensus on the…

Welcome to this month's round up of topical clips from Scottish independence politics and activism.

Topics this month:

00:01:05   Future Voices 

00:04:41   Chain of Freedom -

00:07:06    Rutherglen b…

In his book Doun Hauden Prof Alf Baird draws on research from colonial experiences of decolonisation to re-examine the question of Scottish Nationhood.  

We are delighted to welcome Alf back onto the…

First Minister Humza Yousaf's keynote speech at his first SNP conference was delivered while his own family members remain trapped in Gaza by the conflict between Palestine and Israel.  Against this …

There is only a day to go until the next SNP conference where discussion will centre around the issue of a de facto referendum as the next step on our journey to independence.

Indypodcasters Fiona an…