Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's episode features Stuart McDonald, the

SMP's Defence Spokesperson. I've been meaning to get Stuart on for ages because he's a really

good laugh. He's brilliant on social media and he's been very strong in this area of

defence and misinformation, tackling fake news and being outspoken about certain individuals

in certain communities who've ended up broadcasting on certain channels. We talked about that

in more specifics in the interview. He's also written a brilliant report, disinformation

in Scottish public life, which is a great read. It's also a short read, so I've put a link

to that in the blurbs. You can click on that and read that I reckon in a cup of tea or

two. If you have one of those big sports direct mugs, you could probably drink a whole

one of those. Mind you, you could, they'd last you all day, wouldn't they? The point is,

compared to some reports, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, sure, and a good read.

It's well written. So we talk about that report. Before we come on to in more detail as to

what I talk about, Stuart, don't forget you can email the show politicalpartypodcast at gmail.com

with your unusual encounters or politicians with politicians or strange places you've seen

them. And in this conversation with Stuart, I put an idea to him towards the end, which

indeed, if it comes to fruition or fruitation, as Glenn Hoddle would say, then maybe if

you live somewhere in Glasgow, you will be emailing me in a few years time with a very

strange story of what the SMP's defense spokesperson has got up to more on that in a second,

but Thomas Devlin has been in touch. He says, my awkward encounter was with the current

First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, during the new port west by election. I was a student

in Wales at the time and was called into help. As usual, the politicians like to join

in campaigning for the first few roads, the obligatory group picture holding a Labour

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