The Last Waltz
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.8 • 259 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
As the hostilities go on between Israel and Iran we try and get beneath the "We support the right of Israel to defend itself" to why Israel decided to launch its attacks, why now , and the realities of nuclear proliferation in the region.
Meanwhile a report by the Centre For Media Monitoring has forensically examined the BBC's coverage of Gaza. The results are damning in terms of revealing BBC bias.
We take a look at the spending review not only the decisions made but especially what impact Labour's decisions may have on Scottish politics.
Lesley's latest article in The National not only covers this but asks if the SNP’s old attack lines are now almost gone and its claims of success belong largely to the old glory days. Will John Swinney's Scotland 2050 speech bring them back?
Despite Deputy Leader Keith Brown committing to an independence convention before the Holyrood elections at the 2024 SNP Annual Conference this has now been knocked firmly on the head by Angus Robertson. Was this a mistake?
The trial of Kneecap member, Mo Chara, under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act will go ahead at Westminster Magistrates’ Court tomorrow. What does this tell us about the nature of the state and its decisions on who and who not to prosecute under the Act's provisions?
As per usual there's other meanderings and maybe a wee mention of the golf.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's podcast tackles so many of the repeat offenders in our lives, but the big one, of course, has got much worse, the attack on Iran by Israel. |
| 0:10.2 | We analyse the double standards, the desperate hope that somebody will see an alternative to letting Netanyahu bolster his own reputation and make Israel much more vulnerable as a result, never mind its impact on Iran. |
| 0:25.5 | And of course, there's the fact that probably that template was taken from our invasion of Iraq without evidence, actually, that there was any weapons of mass destruction. |
| 0:35.2 | So a lot to talk about there. |
| 0:37.1 | We look at John Swinney's speech on independence |
| 0:39.4 | and ponder whether it will shift the dial. |
| 0:42.2 | We look also at various stories in the news |
| 0:44.6 | about, for example, Alexander Dennis, |
| 0:46.8 | the bus company heading south |
| 0:48.1 | and much more besides. |
| 0:50.1 | Those are the headlines. |
| 0:51.6 | Now for the podcast. |
| 1:02.9 | Hi, Choms and welcome to this week's Leslie Redick podcast, and I have returned. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm so full of antibiotics that if I were a chicken, I would be banned from imports into the UK under the US-Uk trade deal. |
| 1:15.7 | Sorry, according to Donald Trump. |
| 1:21.2 | It's the US-EU trade deal that he signed yesterday. It's amazing, isn't it? |
| 1:22.4 | And he dropped it and, oh, God, all the rest. |
| 1:25.0 | Anyway, Laddie Daft. |
| 1:26.2 | Oh, well, yeah, it wasn't it? |
| 1:27.3 | It was just utterly symbolic, wasn't it it of the relationship that we've got with the United States |
| 1:33.3 | under any president, particularly under Donald Trump, it was Kirstaner, scrabbling about in his |
| 1:38.6 | knees to pick up Trump's papers. |
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