With friends like Wes Streeting, Anna Sarwar hardly needs enemies.

We're looking at the debate night, debate of all the party leaders,

overshadowed, of course, by that contemptuous, sniffy response to the straightforward question

as to how Scots can get independence.

We look as well as now that we're at the actual apex of insults to humanity, there's Donald Trump

actually getting himself into AI, portraying himself as Jesus. Even Republicans saying,

one is my savior, one is my president. This is not washing at all well. So we look at all these

American international developments,

as well as George Robertson on the Defence Budget, and much else besides. Those are the headlines.

Now for the podcast. Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddock podcast. What an exciting

week to be alive. We've got the ongoing Iranian crisis. We've got a spat

with the Pope and Donald Trump. I mean, you know, in the white corner weighing 150 pounds is

Pope Leo the 14th. And in the red corner, weighing considerably more than 150 pounds, is Don the Don Trump,

giving it loud day with AI made up stuff portraying him as the blinking healer of men.

He's even, Matt.

He's even, man.

He's a very naughty boy.

Right, I thought that was one of your kids for a minute.

You should tell, okay, maybe you shouldn't tell me.

Anyway, that's so great.

Yeah, he is a very naughty boy.

But it's just, it's kind of just unbelievable. But anyway, I mean, I was listening to the Andrew Marshall, which is actually very good at 6pm on LBC yesterday. And, you know, old Andrew's quite a kind of measured chap. I mean, you don't spend that long in the BBC. It's taken me a long time to unmeasure. Not to be pretty measured. He was going absolutely apoplectic about this.

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