Scottish Independence Podcasts

Land Justice Extra - a historical context

Our bonus Tuesday extra podcast episode follows on from last Friday's land Justice discussion.  In this bonus episode we chat with Random Scottish History's Jenny Eeles about the historical context for the current woeful position where fewer than 500 individuals own more than half of all the private land in Scotland.  
You can also watch the video version of this discussion on our Indylive Extra Youtube channel
Music is Inspired by Kevin MacLeod

Land Justice

It is a sad fact that fewer than 500 people own 57% of the private land in Scotland.
The Scottish Government are consulting on a proposed Land Reform Bill.  This is open until 25th September, so we take a look at the proposals up for consultation. 
With the help of two case studies - Flamingo Land's revised bid to take over Balloch and the Loch Lomond waterfront and the possibility of an islanders hostile buy out from the absentee landlord on Great Bernera - we look at some of the issues that this consultation brings to light - and many that it doesn't even begin to cover.
We have contributions from Lesley Riddoch and Robin McAlpine via Commonweal's expert panel discussion plus excerpts from members debates in Holyrood.
Find the Scotgov consultation here: https://consult.gov.scot/agriculture-and-rural-economy/land-reform-net-zero-scotland/
find commonweal's website here: https://commonweal.scot/
Contains information licensed under the Scottish Parliament copyright licence.
Music is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod 

SSRG Conference: Scottish Economy

The Scottish Sovereignty Research Group held a conference in Dunfermline in Aug 22.  This podcast comes from the session on the Scottish Economy and features Dr Tim Rideout and Professor Richard Murphy explaining why it is essential to have a Scottish currency and taking questions from the audience.
You can see more from the conference on the SSRG TV Youtube channel 
music: Kevin Macleod
 

Farming, Food and Independence

We all have to eat!  This week's podcast comes from a Yes Stonehaven event with Alec Ross who runs a farming supply business from Stranraer and is also a columnist on the Orkney News.  Alec shares his experiences of Brexit, his thoughts on independence conversations with the farming community and also answers questions from the audience.
We are grateful to Yes Stonehaven for sharing their event with us.  If you are in a Yes group and would like our help to bring your event to a wider audience, please get in touch with us = email indylivepodcasters@gmail.com or message us on twitter @scottishindypod 
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Campaigning 101 - Getting Our Point Across

Campaigning is the bread and butter of the Yes Movement. In this episode of our Indy Jigsaw series, we look at different aspects of campaigning including planning, strategy, tactics, grass roots activity, campaign tools and lobbying.
Our guests are former MSP and Scottish Socialist Frances Curran,  part time lecturer and lobbyist Grant Thom and Commonweal's Leo Plumb.  We even take a peek into the abyss at some of the tactics used by Better Together in 2014.
There is an extended version of our interview with Frances Curran on our Indylive Extra Youtube channel and you can also see the Commonweal Campaign Centre walkthrough there too. 
You can find the Campaign Centre website here: https://common-weal-campaign-centre.mn.co/share/k6L-iclUxpK6fyR1?utm_source=manual
To chat to the Indy Jigsaw team, pop into our discord server here: https://t.co/JMbOCXnf7u

Bits & Pieces Podcast-August 2022

Despite Holyrood and Westminster being in recess, there were plenty of topical titbits going on in August, including:
Drought, sewage and water privatisation in England 
 
Energy  price crisis and Power to the People protest
 
Anti Tory sentiment and state media bias at the Perth leadership hustings*
 
Growing support for Scottish democratic right to a referendum plus speech from the Inverness march
*link to the Byline Times Scotland report here: https://bylines.scot/news/scotland/thousands-turn-out-to-barrack-tory-hopefuls-at-perth-hustings/
also check out our Independence Live and Indylive Extra Youtube channels 
If you would like to chat with any of the Indylive podcast team, join our chat at https://discord.gg/b9Ka3UbcEG
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Our Border, Our Opportunity?

An independent Scotland in the EU (or EFTA) will require careful management of our borders, particularly the land border with England.  In this episode we listen to some of the experts who explain the principles of the common travel area, border management and the difference between a border and customs controls.  We also chat to our guest Ruth Ritchie who lives in a border community about the practical day to day reality of life on a border.
In the podcast we refer to a paper co-authored by Prof Katy Hayward and Prof Nicola McEwen called An EU Border across Britain: Scotland's borders after independence.   You can find it here https://ukandeu.ac.uk/research-papers/an-eu-border-across-britain-scotlands-borders-after-independence/
We also mentioned the Indylive Podcast team's new public chat channel on Discord which you can join here:  https://t.co/JMbOCXnf7u
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Power to the People

This week's podcast is an episode of Rising Clyde.  Host Iain Bruce chats to three guests about Power to the People - a new socialist campaign to tackle the energy crisis.
Guests Matt Kerr, Frances Curran and Coll McCail explain the aims of the campaign and how you can get involved.