On independence, we discuss whether the candidates being selected right now to stand for the SNP in the next holiday elections

should be putting independence front and centre,

and whether branches should be ready to do that if the SNP for any reason hesitates.

On the Pope, we talk about the track record of Pope Francis and ask whether being a modest,

humble man who struck the right tone in many debates but didn't manage to move the dial

on accepting women into formal roles within the church and under whose watch, the position on

contraception has not changed,

as it hasn't for practically a century, nor on accepting gay people, all of that.

Should we even be speaking about it at a moment where a man's died?

We speak too about that big Supreme Court judgment last week,

which seems to have left as many problems in its wake as the

clarification it made about the Equality Act and a woman being a biological woman. Those are the

headlines. Now for the podcast. Hi, John's and welcome to this week's Leslie Riverick podcast, and we're three weeks into April.

And this may seem a bizarre way to start this, but I have had this recurring dream, Leslie, that I had.

I have not taught for over six years now, but it was at this time of year, I always used to get this awful dream that I'd

forgotten a whole unit to teach my students who were sitting the national exams, and I had to go in,

and then I got this whole thing about, I'd be writing on the whiteboard and nothing would go up,

and the students would be late.

I couldn't find the classroom.

And I swear to God, every April since then, including last night, I had that same recurring dream.

I have forgotten to do something I really should have done.

And that's a wee linking to say, I did remember to hit record this

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