The Scottish Independence Podcast

Just occasionally in all the years I've been doing this, mostly for laughs, I've made a few little, ahem, tributes, to some of our political adversaries.The 187th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is a run through of some of the best of these, because I think most of us are in need of a laugh at the moment.Hope you enjoy.These podcasts are independently minded and independently funded, you can help to keep them going by making a donation. http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast/http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videos

The 186th episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast is amongst other things, a mix of some bad excuses.There's a bad excuse for a Prime Minister, a bad excuse for a President of the United States, and a few bad excuses for the behaviour of the British Empire.Along with that, there are people trying to expose those excuses, and how they got on with it.Hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast/http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videos

The 185th episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast is a talk by Broadcaster, writer and activist and former guest on the show, Billy Kay, about Scottish identity.Have you ever noticed when you go abroad that the locals always seem to know what happened in 1437 in every wee nook and cranny of their town. Have you also noticed that this often isn't the case in Scotland? Why would that be? Kay explores this idea in the talk, but also provides some great stories from Scottish history, and there are a few revelations as well. For example, which UK Prime Minister may well have supported Scottish Independence?  Which SNP MSP alledges that she was followed around the Houses of Parliament in the dark by Scottish Labour MPs.Also, there's something about the special branch meddling in the Scottish Independence Movement.All that and more, hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/billykayscothttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast/http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videos

The Queen, God, the EU (in and out), your mate's dug, Alpha Centauri, cherry tomatoes, wind, Nigel Farage, xylophones, Bungle from Rainbow - whatever it is, if you listen to some people, it's a reason against Scottish Independence.The latest they are using is the virus, so for the 184th episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast I have taken some pieces of talks from before the coronavirus and I'm asking to you to think about if they still apply, or even, are they more urgent questions than before?And it finishes with an idiot for good measure.Hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videos

For episode 183 of The Scottish Independence Podcast I'm taking you back to that wonderful world of a dew months ago in which the only things we had to worry about were Tory lies causing unnecessary death and hardship, and a babbling manboy in the White House.Oh wait, both of those things still apply.Anyway, it's a collection of whoppers, evasions and other nefarious activity from the Tories, just in case you ever forget what they are like.Hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videoshttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

"A mendacious drunkard's promise, made to convince his wife not to leave him", yes you guessed it, The Vow.However, the 182nd episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast is, thanks to Independence Live, a talk given by Mark McNaught with an intro by John Drummond (former convenor of the Independence convention).It's about the importance of making a draft consitution for Scotland BEFORE a second referendum. It also gets into the problems with the constitutional situation in the UK "Arguably the most incoherent and feudal political system on Earth".The project, which seems to be on hold at the moment, can be found at Scottishconstitution.comHope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videos

Obviously you weren't expecting there would be any UK wide celebrations of The Declaration of Arbroath, were you? However, the indy movement has stepped up and we've had the documentary by Lesley Riddoch and Charlie Stuart, and there will be an illustrated version too.For my own part, I decided just to read the whole thing, not the few quotes we usually hear, and make it available as audio, so here it is. Obviously I read the translation from the National Library of Scotland, not the original Latin.Doing it, it was easy to see how it is in part a plea, partly a statement of intent, in one part an offer, and in another part a threat.A truly interesting document. A pity that no one in British broadcasting seems to think so (I know there are other things going on right now, however if they had had any intention of doing anything it would have been planned and done before the coronavirus outbreak).Hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videoshttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

The 180th episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast is, thanks to Independence Live, a talk given by John Drummond (former convenor of the Independence convention).In this talk he explains to an audience why he thinks it is a pivotal that we have a constitution prepared and ready to go before a second referendum, and not as something to be decided after.Hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_LfMf1z6erDXSCHfw6_Bw/videos

We're back. A few episodes are ready to go.To start off with, I think we are all in need of a laugh, so here's something many of the show's regular contributors and myself knocked up a few years ago for April Fool's Day.A lot of people on both sides of the debate didn't realise we were joking.Hope you enjoy.

The 178th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is a long in-depth look at the Scottish economy and what may happen after Brexit. It features friend of the show and someone who has been a guest several times, MSP Ivan McKee.Before that however, we've someone getting Farage telt, and after that we've got, just for the change of it, someone saying Scotland won't have any problems getting into the EU at all.He spoke about what I outlined above, and also responded to some criticisms of the growth commission and gave an idea of the thinking behind it. You may or may not agree with everything that is in it (I don't, and some of the audience members at the talk didn't agree either), but it is useful to hear the rationale behind it.Hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 177th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast has quite a varied menu. What is the UK govt spending millions on telling citizens living abroad? Do (Labour) MPs bother to read things before voting for them? There's also a No to Yes convert, some speeches from the recent march in Edinburgh, a confused person and more.And is one of the most famous Scots changing his mind?Hope you enjoy.https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

The 175th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is a short talk given by Craig Dalzell showing, amongst other things, how distorted the GERS figures can be, some of the immediate savings an independent Scotland would make, and some of the instant bumps in revenue it would have.In case that wasn't clear above, that is when we are independent, not now.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/thecommongreenhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 174th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is just a little teaser and a way of saying the podcast will be back for a little summer season and hopefully beyond.Iquote-because-things-are-the-way-they-are-things-will-not-stay-the-way-they-are-bertolt-brecht-23275.jpgn this one we've got something on the new cretin/b*stard (delete according to your mood) that has taken over as Prime Minister, there's a little blast from the past, a live reaction to that thing on Channel 5 and finally the headline guest.Hope you enjoy.

"I think if you had got a group of mysogynists in a room and said 'guys, how can we make this system work for men and not for women?', they wouldn't have come up with too many other ideas than what is already in place".The 173rd episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is the much talked about report by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, talking about the UK.It's so important I was going to just read the whole thing out and put that out as a podcast but fortunately for me there was a presentation and a Q&A, and here it is.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23881&LangID=Ehttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 172nd episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is a speech given by Clive Ponting.Ponting is a famous whistleblower who exposed the UK Government over the sinking of The Belgrano, an act many believe to be a war crime. He has also authored a number of books exposing various levels of skulduggery and/or incompetence at Whitehall.This episode comes from a recent talk he gave in which he goes into those things, but also why he now resides in Scotland, why he loves it, and why he supports Scottish Independence. Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 171st episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is mostly a speech by Dr Philippa Whitford (a previous guest on the show). I'm sure you do, but just in case you didn't know, Dr Whitford MP is an SNP MP but before her time in politics she was a consultant breast surgeon, one who also worked as part of UN mission in Gaza and even a couple of years ago went to the West Bank to operare on four women suffering from Breast Cancer.The speech, principally about the Scottish Health service, was at Clermiston and is reproduced here courtesy of Independence Live.At the end of the speech I left the Q & A section in because most of the questions from the floor were, I imagine, exactly the ones the majority of listeners to this podcast would have asked, and she also gave some good responses.Finally, before that main course of the podcast begins, I put in a little starter when it seemed, just for a second, that the BBC was going to go somewhere it never ever goes.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/Dr_PhilippaWhttps://twitter.com/liveIndyScothttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 170th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is mostly a speech by Mike Russell regarding the (bleak) situation with Brexit and people really should hear it. I am reproducing the talk here and thanks to Newsnet for allowing me to do so.There are also a couple of cameos, Martin Compston gets it right and Ruth Davidson gets it wrong, American Embassy staff paint a frightening picture and John Swinney loses his sh*t.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/Feorleanhttps://newsnet.scot/http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

"I have devoted myself to the cause of the people. It is a good cause. It shall ultimately prevail. It shall finally triumph." – Thomas Muir's speech from the dock, Edinburgh, August 1793.Courtesy of Phantom Power, the 169th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast features the Thomas Muir lecture for 2018, which was given by Gerda Stevenson withAs well as being an actress and a musician, Gerda Stevenson is the author of Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland and in the lecture you can find out which Scottish woman was an inspiration to Walt Whitman and Mary Shelley, and which Scottish woman is known in Serbia as "Our Mother from Scotland"?That and much more.First up however, is an introduction by Murray Armstrong, author of The Liberty Tree, who explains who Thomas Muir was, and why it is important to remember him.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttp://www.gerdastevenson.co.uk/https://twitter.com/MurrayArmstron3https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGVfektAXlCjoMy70ftQBkAThese podcasts are independently minded and independently funded, you can help to keep them going by making a donation at http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

The 168th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is a mix of some recent things that you won't want to miss.Here you'll find a psychic that didn't seem to predict the consequences of telling a nation of people to go f*ck itself, or how much of an idiot she would like when she was doing it.There is also a good speech from Westminster which provides good and useful historical information on the history of Scottish home rule. However, given that the speech was delivered in Westminster, it was accompanied by quite a lot of petulant, ill-informed and childish nonsense that came from the government benches.Finally, which Tory MP seems to want a large number of Scottish people to commit suicide? I imagine that some of you reading this are saying "quite a few of them want that" to yourselves, which is possibly true, but one of them said it out loud in public.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 167th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is an interview with Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy and Research at the Common Weal.We had a chat about the usual rammy every time the GERS figures come out (sorry for the swear word that it forced out of me, there is only one in the episode) and then we talked about the new paper the Common Weal have produced How to Launch A Scottish Currency. Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/thecommongreenhttp://www.allofusfirst.org/tasks/render/file/?fileID=D4585A1F-CD21-B22B-C33449D117D4382Chttp://www.allofusfirst.org/http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 166th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast features, amongst other things, an interview with Peter Swain of Pensioners for Independence (courtesy of Independence Live).You'll also find out why I was very tempted to call the episode "Archie, Archie, What's the Score?", even if part of that joke will only make sense if you were born before 1985.I also had to include Boris Johnson, or as he is known in Scotland, Bawjawz, trying to justify some of the worst Tory behaviour. As he does so, he is kind enough to show just how far removed from you and the rest of reality in the process.Finally, there's a semi-unrelated part relating to how the BBC will shut down certain discussions if you go off script.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://pensionersforindependence.scot/http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://www.youtube.com/user/IndependenceLive

We're back.Just a little reminder of why...

Around this time of year I usually try to put out something with some of the best bits of the year in a compilation. However, given the early birth of our son Cailean, I haven't had time to scour through the stuff I have saved to put that exact show together again this year. So instead, here is what I thought was the best of this year, along with two of the best of ANY year in the Scottish Independence movement. It's not all happy-smiley, but it is all excellent.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

The 163rd episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is a thank you for some of the great moments that Scottish Labour leaders have given us in recent years.Today the new empty suit put himself right in the mix with the previous empty suits and dresses, and he is hardly in the job.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The 162nd episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is a quick run through of some of the things that Trump and the Tories have been up to.Some listeners may find the amount of Ruth Davidson in it upsetting, however, when she is in it, she is constistently making an arse of herself. She also says some terminological inexactitudes, seems to forget that welfare isn't a devolved matter and more.There is also someone making fun of Trump, but the problem with that is that whatever you say about him, he is easily able to outdo it with what he says himself.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

"We hereby constitute the Catalan Republic as an independent, sovereign, legal, democratic, socially-conscious state"

I noticed that the only people I hadn't had on the show among the conveners and voting organisations were Elaine C. Smith (I've tried - can't seem to get in touch with her), AyeScotland, Christians For Independence and Pensioners for Independence.I then immediately tweeted out asking if any of those organisations would like to come on the show for a talk about independence. The first I managed to organise something with (and I'll be working on the others shortly) were Christians for Independence.I'm not a religious man myself so I thought it would be interesting to hear their perspective and, as the guest, Dave Thompson - former SNP MSP and convener of the group, pointed out in the show, over 400,000 people regularly attend churches in Scotland every week so is this a demographic the indy movement can afford to ignore?So here is the 161st episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast with Dave Thompson of Christians for independence...Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://christiansforindependence.weebly.com/https://twitter.com/Christians4Indyhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwell

The 160th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is an interview with Ian Hamilton QC, probably most know for going down to London with some friends and /taking back/stealing/repatriating/borrowing (delete as you wish) The Stone of Destiny/Scone. I have always wanted to have him on the show but unfortunately it wasn't me that got to interview him, it was instead Mike Small of Bella Caledonia (Bella also has a fundraiser), who has allowed me to make it up into an episode here.We get some great details on the story of the taking of stone and about the independence movement and its history.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://bellacaledonia.org.uk/http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

The 159th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast features a talk given at the Edinburgh SNP Club last night by Colin Fox of the SSP.Colin always speaks well and this time was no different. As well as being his usual genial self however, he also spoke about some of the difficulties the independence movement is in and how we can get out of them.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/The_SSP_https://twitter.com/EdinCentralSNPhttps://twitter.com/colinfoxssphttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

"In the case of Brexit, I heard assurances throughout the course of the mission and yesterday at the human rights council from the government that Brexit would not lower protection from environmental threats. However, I also heard, or actually did not hear any clear assurances of how that would be the case. There have been statements from members of government saying that existing laws will be maintained WHEREVER PRACTICAL AND DESIRABLE, which I find very worrying." The 158th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast features a talk given at the UN by Baskut Tuncak. The report was about the UK and the quote I put above is possible the least damning thing he said, not the most.Human rights abuses, toxic waste, pollution, brexit, poisoning of children in the UK and abroad, agreements with dodgy overseas partners and more, this is a strong indicator of just how dysfunctional, intransigent and even nasty the British state can be.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://www.srtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Final-UK-mission-report.pdfhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

The 157th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is the second time on the show for Anna Arqué. Anna has been a long-time campaigner for Catalan independence and also works for the International Commission of European Citizens.I asked her about the preparations for the Independence Referendum they are about to have and also about the measures that the Spanish government is using to try and disrupt the process.I also asked her how the people are reacting to some of these measures and what the outlook for the referendum is.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://www.icec.ngo/https://twitter.com/anna_arquehttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

We're back!The 156th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast features the Thomas Muir lecture for 2017, which was given by Tommy Sheppard MP (who has also been on the show himself).Hope you enjoy.

It's good to give time to your opponents, , so for the 155th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast I've decided to cover this election broadcast by the Scottish Conservatives.

At the moment there isn't really enough talk about choices. Everything is being presented as either a future in Brexit UK (with all the lack of choices that entails), or an independent future in the EU.However there are more options than that available. If one looks to Scandinavia it is possible to see many different types of engagement and activity with Europe, from full membership and trying to change things from within, to various kinds of halfway house.In this talk presented here in the 154th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast, Lesley Riddoch outlines the options, and there are many of them that are appealing.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwell

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For the 152nd episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast I've pulled together some of the recent notable comments by some pro-indy folks and by some unionists.The Tories seem to want to deny everything, some people are trying to ramp up the hysteria and others are trying to calm it all down. In the middle of it all Gordon Brown made another intervention, and then went away again without anyone noticing.Apart from that, the BBC edited Nicola Sturgeon rather sneakily, and there are two comments, both radically different in tone, from interested parties south of the border.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwell

For the 151st episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast I managed to get Adam Ramsay back on the line after a failed recording a couple of months back. Adam is a writer and activist and is the co-editor of Open Democracy.We talked about the wider context in which the argument over the timing of the second independence referendum is being played out in. We also spoke about the hysterical reactions of some unionist commentators - why are they so furious and how should we react to it.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/AdamRamsayhttps://www.opendemocracy.net/ukhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/adamramsay?fref=ts

It's the 150th episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast and the 250th podcast I have put together that is about Scottish Independence in some way, so it's a double sort of anniversary. I hope you've been enjoying them.This time we are back to the interviews and in this universal moment of "what the hell is going on?" I spoke to Pat Kane, who I'm sure doesn't need any introduction other than to say he isn't the ice-hockey player that comes up if you search Pat Kane on google.We spoke about the the events of this week regarding the new independence referendum, how we are going to need to campaign, what new allies might come along to the party, what is likely to be against us and how we can fight it.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/thoughtlandhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

A recent episode of the Lesley Riddoch podcast mentioned a couple of things regarding what's going to happen to fishing and agriculture in Scotland post-brexit. I felt what they were talking about was so important that we should go straight to the horse's mouth, and then to the horses a***s (Mundell & Farage).So for the 149th episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast I've pulled together the relevant comments and something fishy does indeed seem to be going on.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwell

I had just put together and mastered episode 148 of the Scottish Independence Podcast before Sturgeon announced that we're going for Indyref 2, so it doesn't have any of that in it.I hope you'll still find it funny and/or infuriating though.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

Due to a large quantity of people I'm going to interview soon being on holiday, just to keep things ticking over, episode 147 of the Scottish Independence Podcast is a few interesting clips pulled from here and there that you may have missed.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcasthttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

First of all, a huge thank you to all of you who donated in our little fundraiser. You've secured the podcast for another year and we're very grateful.Episode 146 of the Scottish Independence Podcast continues the series of talks given at the recent Scottish Independence Convention and has a couple of little bonuses thrown in too.There are another two talks featured. The first was given by Lesley Orr of Women For Indy, and the second by Patrick Harvie, and this was his speech to round off the conference.Before we get to those however, there is a little excerpt of a talk given by Craig Murray, in which he explains we he thinks for Indyref 2 we need to get international observers.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/LesleyOrr14https://twitter.com/WomenForIndyhttps://twitter.com/patrickharviehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

Episode 145 of the Scottish Independence Podcast continues the series of talks given at the recent Scottish Independence Convention.This time round there are two talks. The first was given by Stewart Kirkpatrick, former Digital Operations Manager for Yes Scotland, and the second by Sarah Beattie-Smith of the Green Party and Women For Indy.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/calgacushttps://twitter.com/SBeattieSmithhttps://twitter.com/WomenForIndyhttps://twitter.com/liveIndyScothttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

Episode 144 of the Scottish Independence Podcast continues the series of talks given at the recent Scottish Independence Convention.This time round there are two talks. The first was given by is a talk given by Cat Boyd and the second by the people from Yes 2 - Tony McCandless and John McHarg.Hope you enjoy.

Episode 143 of the Scottish Independence Podcast is a talk given by Richard Walker (interviewed in episode 135) at the recent Scottish Independence Convention.Richard is now the consulting editor of The National, but was also involved in the formation of that paper and the decision made at the Sunday Herald to begin openly supporting Scottish independence.In this talk Richard talks about the relationship between the Scottish Independence Movement and the Scottish mainstream media. LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://twitter.com/richardwalker5https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

Episode 142 of the Scottish Independence Podcast is a talk given by Dr Craig Dalzell (interviewed in episode 134) at the recent Scottish Independence Convention.Craig's talk was with regard to who did and didn't vote for independence last time round, how the picture has changed since then and what sort of strategies we should be looking at to get us over the 50% line.It's a very important listen, and thanks to Craig and to the good people at Independence Live for letting me reproduce it here.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/thecommongreenhttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttp://independencelive.net/

The Scottish Independence Podcast is checking back in for 2017 and episode 141 is our way of starting it off by giving some time to our opponents.Hope you enjoy…LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

For the 14oth episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast I invited journalist, vlogger and self-confessed foreign policy obsessive Robert Somynne to come on the show.Obviously there isn't much going on around the world at the moment so we had to talk about that wee thing that happened over in the USA a couple of weeks back.Hope you enjoy…LINKShttps://twitter.com/RobertJSomynnehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttp://robertsomynne.blogspot.co.uk/http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

Did you know that it isn't only Scotland that has "the cringe"? They have it in other places too, it just goes by a different name.For the 139th (sort of) episode of the Scottish Independence Podcast I spoke with Billy Kay, and the above is only one of the subjects we talked about.Billy has for years been writing, broadcasting and producing material on Scottish Culture and Scots language, for the BBC and internationally, and is often to be seen giving talks around the country. He also currently has a show you can listen to on the iplayer... Scotland's Black History.I asked him to come on because he is one of the best qualified people to talk about the importance of building confidence in Scottish culture, and how that plays into the campaign for Scottish Indepence.At the end of the episode there is also a little Robert-the-Brucie bonus, which regards this.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttp://www.billykay.co.ukhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/billykayscothttps://twitter.com/billykayscothttps://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/on-russia-today/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

This new special short episode is either going to make you laugh or make you feel you've been dragged into a strange otherworld.That's all I'm saying.Hope you enjoy.http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast