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A review of current news stories relating to Scotland and Scottish independence hosted by Peter Young with guests Peter Barclay @barclaypeter7 Michelle Ferns @michelleferns11 and Roddy MacLeod @Scotpol1314

My wife and I were watching the north German drama ‘Der Usedom-Krimi’ recently. We suddenly recognised one of the seaside towns used as the location in the episode. We’d visited this town only a few weeks after the re-unification of East and West Germany on 3 October 1990. Those momentous events of three decades agoContinue reading “The Tide of History”

The conversation turned to politics, as it does among dinner party guests following an election. The consensus among our Danish guests was that PM Mette Frederiksen’s deleted emails and poor memory had affected results in the council and regional vote. Cover up and omission are not a good look, and the fiercely independent Danish mediaContinue reading “Letter from Denmark: The Dinner Party”

Presented by John Hannah with Julie McAnulty Deputy Leader of the Independence for Scotland Party and Bruce Hosie of Grumpy Scottish Man Blog (7 December 2021)

With Denise Findley co-presenter of #TheCauldron and David Henry of #SSRG (Scottish Sovereignty Research Group) (29 November 2021)

My interview with Julia Pannell of isp.scot and Bruce Hosie of the blog grumpyscottishman.wordpress.com (21 November 2021)

Interview with James Douglass laying out a version of John F. Kennedy’s assassination that is sickening, in every way outrageous, but not exactly unfamiliar. In JFK and the Unspeakable Douglass makes it the story a plot inside the national security apparatus and the Central Intelligence Agency to kill the president and stop his turn toward peace, toward endingContinue reading “JFK and the Unspeakable”

The train leaves at 7.26am from Copenhagen. Thanks to the Great Belt tunnel and bridge you now travel direct to Hamburg. There’s no need to disembark anymore, the ferries between Sjaelland and Fyn stopped sailing years ago. The Danish IC train continues across the middle island, over another bridge to Jutland, and down through historicContinue reading “Passport”

October 31st and I’m cycling in North Sjaelland. The mix of autumn chill and burning wood stoves evokes one of those scent memories. Across the decades ma auld Glesga maw appears in my mind’s eye. Perhaps appropriate on ‘Samhain’, our day of the dead. The mental image of ma maw conjured up was at Meadowpark.Continue reading “A Scent of Scotland”

I fell asleep in the early hours of 24 of June 2016 listening to the BBC’s all-night Brexit coverage. In spite of the British state broadcaster’s clear pro-leave bias during the campaign, I felt pretty sure the UK would, as a state, choose to remain in the EU. This is certainly what I’d been tellingContinue reading “Citizenship”