Rangers fans blatantly break Covid rules. That Oprah Winfrey with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. How to vote in the next Holyrood election. International Women's Day thoughts.
Show Notes
We begin with the behaviour of Rangers fans after their team won the league on Sunday, the police response,and the reaction/non reaction of the club to the blatant flouting of the Covid regulations.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's well trailed interview with Oprah Winfrey aired in the UK last night. Two self confessed republicans try to make sense of the whole thing and consider the role of the monarchy as the foundation of a fundamentally unfair society.
The Holyrood elections in May are being seen, yet again, as a test of support for independence , and an opportunity to put pressure on Boris Johnson over indyref2. Key to all this seems to now be not just a pro independence majority in the Scottish Parliament but the SNP securing an overall majority on its own.
We try to unravel the complications of how to navigate the vagaries of the Additional Member voting system
Finally we talk about International Women's Day from both a personal and political perspective with, not unexpectedly, a focus on the drive towards Scottish independence.
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What is The Lesley Riddoch Podcast?
Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with former media lecturer and Dundee United fan, Pat Joyce. If you like intelligent, quirky chat about Scottish society and culture, and Scottish, UK and international politics analysed from a Scottish perspective; this podcast is for you.