Brave New World
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce
4.8 • 259 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
As the Trump administration pauses military aid to Ukraine we look back at the events of the past week which led up to this.
We begin with Starmer's "charm offensive" at the White House, his attempts to appease Trump, and his attempts to bridge the growing gap between the US and Europe.
It all seemed to come crashing down with that appalling pool spray ambush of Zelenskyy by Trump and Vance, aided by a right wing "journalist" .
We ask where this leaves Ukraine, the UK/US special relationship, and Scotland.
As Trump cuts aid to Ukraine it continues to pour into Israel as it looks as if Netanyahu may be engineering a return to the IDF's assault on Gaza while stopping all humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.
John Swinney has called a summit to counter the rise of Reform and has invited political parties, trade unions, civic and faith leaders to attend. Lesley questions whether warm words are enough and that action on progressive economic policies are what is really required to combat the right.
Labour's New Deal for Working People has suffered yet another watering down in its progress through Parliament. Is Labour totally in thrall to business interests in its drive for growth?
It's the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking publication of The Scotswoman edition of the Scotsman. Lesley looks back and how it why it happened .
If you want to watch the videos she's made about this and other topics nip over to her YouTube channel where you can like and subscribe.
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| 0:00.0 | How should Scotland react to what's happening at the moment in the international battles between Ukraine and the White House? |
| 0:07.4 | I'm sure a lot of people would think Scotland is too small and too much of a regional power to be of any significance in what's happening at the moment. |
| 0:16.9 | And yet it matters for democracy how we respond and that to people who are not |
| 0:22.9 | terribly popular in Scotland, and that is Prince Charles and Donald Trump, will have a meeting in |
| 0:30.1 | Scotland very likely with this country as a backdrop, yet again, part of a tradition that many |
| 0:35.3 | of us want to escape. And we have a say. |
| 0:39.3 | We must have a say because otherwise you don't need to be occupied by a country |
| 0:43.3 | to have your mindset, your outlook and your horizons politically, |
| 0:47.3 | completely dominated by a might-is-right philosophy. |
| 0:51.3 | So, Pat and I ponder all of that, the recent goings on, and by the time you hear this, |
| 0:56.7 | there will doubtless have been more in the battle for Europe, for democracy and for Ukraine. |
| 1:02.6 | It's that bigger thing. Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast. |
| 1:14.7 | Hi, Jones and welcome to this week to Leslie Riddick podcast. |
| 1:17.1 | Yes. |
| 1:25.3 | And yeah, it's my head is literally, as you, as we spoke about before we started recording. |
| 1:31.1 | It's, it's virtually exploding. And you came up with a rather nifty analogy, |
| 1:35.7 | I thought, for the whole process that we're currently going through. |
| 1:41.6 | Well, it struck me that, you know, thinking about trying to dive into the middle of this podcast, |
| 1:44.3 | it was a bit like standing, you know, on that school day when you all went to the swimming pool and there was a cue for all those bold enough to dive |
| 1:48.9 | off the high board and you thought you could do it. And then you stand at the front, look at the |
| 1:55.1 | water and think, oh my God. But I mean, the thing is, there's the certainty is that whatever we say |
| 2:00.6 | now will probably be completely out of date within about two hours even, you know. But still, let's try. Yes, well, I mean, as I said, I was looking at, I was desperate for you to include that analogy because you talk about the swimming pool. And I think the only way I can try and get my head round out is trying to operate kind of |
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