What could the British government be doing to help people in a crisis that many predict will end up as difficult and dangerous for people as the 1970s oil crisis that brought rationing and much of the economy to a grinding halt?

We look at what's happening in other countries, like Norway, like Ireland, where the governments have moved like greased lightning

to reduce the pressure on consumers and move to make sure that inflation doesn't build up

as a result. Why is that not happening here? Just to make sure that we're tweeting all governments

equally, we look at the ferries crisis. I've got to say personally, I'm sick of hearing people on the mainland, attack islanders for simply expecting that they could be connected. Just to remind you, we all live on an island and it would be a bit like saying Scotland's a bit too expensive to include in national UK systems. So let's just charge them more. We wouldn't, would we? So we look at all of those issues plus questions of the new BBC boss,

the Kenmuir Street film once again,

and the Independence March at the weekend.

Those are the headlines.

Now for the podcast.

Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddlewold podcast.

Leslie, it was a good day for marching of the weekend. How did you get on? It was great, actually. It really was tremendous. I mean, the weather was great. You always started that way around with it. Do you know, the next day was bogging. I don't know how many people that were on the march. And again, I've not seen any accurate thing about

numbers, but it was, you know, it wasn't 200,000, but it certainly seemed to be more than about

6,000. Anyway, the next day, Sunday was so bad. I kind of thought, you know, the gods must be

slightly smiling now, because that's the kind of day you would normally have had for this. And geez, it would have been desperate. It was a fair old walk, actually, and then up to Colton Hill at the end. But it was tremendously cheery. I was holding the banner at the front with Brian Cox beside me. And then beyond him, John Swinney, aast from Dundee, who did some poetry in Scots,

and I couldn't quite see, oh, the Greens were kind of hovering behind John's head in a,

in a, it was, I mean, it was a sort of, you could see the dilemma for them because I don't know

how many people came up. It would seem to be the SMP

Publicity Department and asked John Swinney about five times to say, that's the Parliament that

we have at the moment. This is the moment that we're going for an independent parliament or something

a lot snappier than that actually. But he said it once then. It was kind of like, can you just

do it again? Can you just do it again? Can you just do it again? I mean, God, you would have to be so patient. Then God knows how many people came up to Brian Cox. We sort of said, Brian, Brian, I met you a thousand years ago, you know, in a seat corner and governed. Do you remember that? Oh, yes, yes, yes.

I've agreed to.

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