Yes Cowal Scottish Independence Podcast

Concluding part of Marlene Halliday's conversation with Robin McAlpine, Head of Strategy Development at Commonweal.      

Welcome to episode 2 of our new series to tie in with COP26.  In this episode presenter Marlene Halliday continues her conversation with Commonweal's Head of Strategic Development Robin McAlpine. Topics include the need for a "coalition of the willing" to encourage trade with environmentally responsible countries and also some novel ideas on public transport options of the future, and much more. Find out more about Common Weal from their website https://commonweal.scot  

AS COP26 descends on Glasgow with the world eagerly awaiting the outcome, Indylive Media present a new series of conversations with climate activists. In this first episode, Robin McAlpine, Director of Strategic Development at Commonweal, joins presenter Marlene Halliday as they share their feelings about progress - or lack of it - and their hopes for the outcome of COP26. Robin has worked for 25 years in journalism, public affairs, political strategy and policy. He writes for a wide range of sources on Scottish politics and is the author of several books. 

Chaired by Corrie Wilson for Voices for Scotland, this is a wide ranging discussion on the subject of currency in an independent Scotland.  Participants are Peter Ryan, Dr Tim Ridout, Kairin Van Sweeden and Robbie Mochrane.  There are many aspects on which the participants do not agree with each other and it is refreshing to have respectful debate on these points. The video version of this discussion is also available on the IndyliveRadio youtube channel

Glasgow Pensioners for Indy have a lively and informative chat with SNP President Mike Russell on a range of topics including campaigning for and winning Indyref2 and the importance of an interim constitution and how that might come about

We are grateful to the Independence for Scotland Party (ISP) for sharing the meeting of their climate change group with guest speaker Dr Keith Baker, expert in fuel poverty, energy policy and built environment asset management. Keith is also a member of Commonweal's energy working group. Topics covered in this discussion include: 1. Energy Performance Certificates 2. Using real time data 3. Geothermal heating 4. The National Energy Company 5. District Heating Systems 6. Ground Source Heat Pumps 7. Property Energy Efficiency Targets 8. Incineration plants 9. Smart Meters 10. Hydrogen as fuel

Welcome to the Indy Jigsaw Podcast, a monthly selection of the best clips from indylive.radio's weekly politics show,  building up the picture of an Independent Scotland piece by piece. This episode features Lesley Riddoch, James Hawes, Dr Philippa Whitford, Tony Guiliani, Lorna Slater, John Swinney, Joanna Cherry and George Kerevan. You can catch the Indy Jigsaw weekly radio show at Noon on Tuesdays on Indylive.radio and there are video versions of many of the clips on Indylive.radio's Youtube channel in the Indy Jigsaw Playlist   

Organised by the Edinburgh Yes Hub, the Big Indy Debate took place at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh on 21st September.  It was an excellent evening's entertainment with music and satire as well as debate.   The core of the event was a debate panel chaired by Lesley Riddoch.  Panel members were Robin McAlpine from Commonweal, Colin Fox from SSP, Michelle Thomson SNP MSP, Gillian Mackay Scottish Green MSP, Selma Rahman Edinburgh WFI and Mike Small from Bella Caledonia. This podcast focuses on the questions for the panel and their answers. The whole event is available to view on Independence Live's Youtube channel.    

Novelist and popular historian who has also written screen adaptations for two of his works. "'Speak for England' foreshadowed Farage, May and Brexit with such unnerving accuracy it deserves some kind of prescience prize" (Observer 23.4.2017).  

This week, Craig talks to David Patrick, author of recently published book Front-Page Scotland which looks at how stories about Scottish independence were reported in the newspapers throughout the 2014 independence referendum campaign. They discuss how the framing of stories on topics such as economics depended largely on whether the points favoured one side of the campaign or the other, which topics were given a disproportionate amount of time in coverage and which people and personalities saw more coverage than others. Finally, they discuss lessons to be learned from the last campaign that could be applied now such as how activists can better examine news stories to assess if the issues are being reported fairly.

The Green Savings Bond. There are a whole host of ways that a government can take to encourage a shift to a greener economy. The Green Savings Bond, the latest idea from the Westminster Government, is not one of them.    Over the summer UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a plan to direct £15B of funding towards green projects to help decarbonize the UK economy.  To achieve this he has chosen the good old Bond market, but with a wee twist, rather than using the traditional bond market where institutional investors look to hedge their riskier investments, by buying risk-free bonds from the government, he is after the publics’ savings.  In the most basic terms, the Green Savings Bond scheme will direct some of the great British public’s savings towards green projects.  So we have the headline: £15B of funding towards green projects. Sounds good, doesn’t it? But we all know never to believe the headline.  That £15B of funding towards green projects is across two years and will only be invested if the great

Nicola Sturgeon's speech from the SNPs virtual conference Sept 2021

The weekend of 11th Sept saw two party conferences.  Here is the closing speech from Alex Salmond at the Alba conference held at Greenock Town Hall.  

James E chats to Joy McNaughten, mother of Olympic Champion swimmer Duncan Scott about the making of a champion, the cost and the frustrations of the lack of media coverage for a sport in which Scotland excels. Scots are 8% of the Uk population yet make up 14% of the British Olympic Team, 21% of the Olympic swimming team and achieved 25% of the medals. Yet the sport barely gets any coverage in mainstream media. Next on the sporting calendar is the International Swimming League which you can follow on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBoEDuW0Lg7AmCkts1j8LyQ  and next year will be another busy year with European Championships and Commonwealth Games. You can find out more about the Scottish Swimming team here https://www.scottishswimming.com/compete/swimming/national-squads.aspx Duncan Scott is the ONLY British Olympian to win 4 medals in a single games and he is still only 24 .  He is also an ambassador for the Learn to Swim programme - an essential life skill for Scottish children in a country with 90

In the week collectively known across Scotland as "GERSmas", when the estimated accounts of Scotland as an administrative region of the UK are published,  Dr Craig Dalzell urges us to think outwith the box.   This week, Craig talks to SNP Policy Development Convenor Chris Hanlon and Agnes MacAuley from SNP Greenock & Inverclyde about the latest GERS figures and what they mean (and don’t mean) for Scotland, independence and the post-pandemic recovery. They then discuss up and coming motions to the SNP conference that have been influenced by or based on Common Weal policies including one for a National Transport Company designed to help decarbonise our cars and other vehicles. Finally, they discuss the role of non-party think tanks in Scottish politics and what they can do that party affiliated policy groups cannot. You can find out more about Commonweal, including access to all the policy papers in their policy library on their website   https://commonweal.scot/    

This week's episode of the Locker Room including Olympic action, swimming and yet more football

Hi, welcome to the Indylive.radio team' audio newsletter for July and August!  Find out what we've been up to as Covid restrictions start to ease and meet some new team members.  Also, hear about our plans for the next few months Get in touch with us studio@indylive.radio if there is anything you would like us to cover in the next issue You can also see the video version of this newsletter on our Youtube channel if you're curious about the faces behind the voices!

Very important discussion on the impact of the newly published IPCC report on the climate emergency hosted by Dr Craig Dalzell, head of Policy Development at Commonweal #climateEmergency #commonweal #IPCCreport

This week's Changing Minds discussion is on the sensitive, but very important topic of dignity in dying. The Indylive.radio team is grateful to SNP Commonweal group for sharing this discussion with us.

We are grateful to the Women for Independence organisation for sharing this event with us, focused on the experience of women in politics and how we can better support each other to reclaim that space #WFI #indyliveradio #scottishpolitics