Is it time for John Swinney to do something robust and clear to make it obvious to everyone

that Scotland has really got a different outlook towards the whole question of Palestine

and Palestine action than Westminster? There's a call from Ross Greer and the Greens

to explore legal ways to stop prosecutions like the ludicrous one of Paul Laverty, the award-winning

screenwriter who was lifted outside a police station. That's a guy who wrote I Daniel Blake,

brilliant film with Ken Loach. Anyway, is there a way to be able to just turn a blind eye,

essentially, to the law, the same way that the drug consumption

rooms in Scotland were allowed to go forward. That's a big issue we discuss. We talk also about

the asylum protests that have been going on in Perth and elsewhere. Were they largely the product

of people being bust in and were they tiny? Or are we just being

complacent? If you feel complacent, listen to reform and their ideas to come out of the

European Convention on Human Rights with the result that they would have mass deportations of

absolutely everyone should they be elected. That's a bit of a bit of a sort of livener.

And Scottish Labour, it would seem their accounts are probably roper than the SNPs were at the time of the mobile home.

Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast.

Well, hi chums and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. We usually start

this Leslie by saying it's been a week where dot dot dot has happened, but it still feels as if we're

pretty much in the summer season, although after 47 days of nonstop fun, the tiny Thompson's

are slowly readjusting to life back at school. How did you get on in Cornwall?

I thought you were going to say 47 days without any rain whatsoever.

I mean, basically, I was singing hallelujah last night because finally rain fell here.

I mean, I'm in North Fife, which is one of the areas that SEPA has said, you know,

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