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The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.6 • 274 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
It's a new year, and a happy one, we hope. We start, as we did last year, with Donald Trump in the headlines - this time after illegally kidnapping the President of Venezuela. We discuss all the ramifications of that, how it is occupying all the bandwidth of every world leader as well as Trump and the USA’s renewed threats to Greenland.
It’s the start of the Scottish election campaign; we look at how things have kicked off and where the election might leave prospects for an independent Scotland.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's a new year and a happy one, I hope, but by gum, it's going to be a difficult one, |
| 0:04.9 | isn't it? We start, as we did the last year with Donald Trump in the headlines, illegally |
| 0:10.1 | kidnapping, let's call it what it is, the president of Venezuela. And now all the rampifications |
| 0:17.6 | of that, occupying all the bandwidth of every world leader, |
| 0:21.9 | well, let's just chuck in the threat to Greenland too. |
| 0:24.8 | So what's it all about? |
| 0:26.0 | We'll have a look at that. |
| 0:27.7 | The Scottish elections, there's going to be five months of a campaign. |
| 0:31.4 | Where will it leave independence at the end of all of that? |
| 0:34.5 | Will it be high profile? |
| 0:36.0 | Will it not matter really what the result is? |
| 0:38.3 | Because after all, we still can't quite get it over the line on our own. |
| 0:42.3 | How will all the parties fare? |
| 0:43.9 | That's what we're discussing today in the first podcast of 2026. |
| 0:47.9 | So those are the headlines now for the podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, hi folks. |
| 0:51.5 | And welcome to this week's Leslie Riddiff podcast. |
| 0:54.7 | It's the first one of 2026. |
| 0:57.2 | Happy New Year, Leslie. |
| 0:58.9 | Yes, and the same to you, dear. |
| 1:00.6 | Yes, or should I say happy regulated campaign spending period, |
| 1:05.6 | although that technically kicks in tomorrow the 7th of January |
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