There are lots of big questions on the go at the moment.

We try to answer some of them.

Donald Trump is blaming the authorities in California

for not having enough water to put out the fires.

This is not true.

They had enough to cope with a normal situation,

but not enough to cope with what climate change is created.

And yet he's ready to pull the US out of the Paris Accords.

We look at this kind of self-perpetuating media nonsense along with Elon Musk, not the world's most

famous electric car manufacturer, but the one deemed to be so because we keep talking about him.

And here we go again.

So we talk about that, the suggestion that Dominic Cumming has been involved with trying to direct his tweets to destabilise Keir Starrmer,

whether Rachel Reeves is largely to blame for the economic problems of the UK at the moment or is it just the anticipation of Donald Trump.

We look as well as to whether John Swinney should be

welcoming Donald Trump to Scotland. Has he got an option? I kind of think he does. Those are the

headlines. Now for the podcast. Hi, Thomas and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. And to quote from a book that you co-wrote, I think it's going to be a Rick Micksmorgas for today because we are absolutely battered with lots and lots of stuff that's been happening all over the shop. So, wow, yes. And the sun is shining, which and the temperature has gone up.

But here's a wee thought. I don't know if you read this. You know, it's conned the bees

into thinking it's spring. So they're building, and this starts out cheery and gets a wee bit

concerning. They're building hives and they're building, and this starts out cheery and gets a wee bit concerning, they're building hives, and they're all going to be destroyed in the next week or two when the temperature plummets again.

So again, it's the old climate change, despite the deniers, that's going to have this somewhat dilaterious effect on the bees upon whom we all depend.

But you know, I kind of, this is a weird thing because when it was minus five or whatever it was

for us anyway, that was seen as being seasonally unusual.

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