New Year, New Problems
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Brand new year, brand new political problems? The team discuss the busy start to 2021, including another lockdown and fears over Coronavirus mutations, Brexit finally being done and the so-called 'teething problems' surrounding fishing, as well as the growing split between First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her former mentor Alex Salmond.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look |
| 0:17.0 | at the big stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.0 | It's 13 minutes past two on |
| 0:21.4 | Thursday the 14th of January. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist normally based at the Scottish Parliament, |
| 0:26.2 | but currently locked down in my flat. And today I am joined by... |
| 0:29.8 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist also based at the Scottish Parliament, but working from home |
| 0:34.2 | today. Nick Erdley at Westminster. |
| 0:37.0 | Roy Seep Sunday, working from home in London. |
| 0:39.7 | Right, first podcast of 2021. |
| 0:41.6 | I know we're all buzzing for this. |
| 0:43.6 | Did we miss anything over Christmas, is the question. |
| 0:45.7 | Did anything happen in politics over those three weeks? |
| 0:48.8 | No, barely anything. |
| 0:49.7 | I didn't even get out my pyjamas. |
| 0:52.6 | Very quiet. |
| 0:53.5 | I mean, Holiday had got recalled twice, which is very rude. |
| 0:56.0 | That's like just cold back to work every week. |
| 0:58.0 | Sometimes it's worth, it is sometimes worth just standing back from what we're covering at the moment |
| 1:02.6 | and what everyone at home is, is like watching on the telly every day. |
| 1:07.6 | We're kind of living through two era-defining stories, aren't we? Like two things that are |
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