As the whole world reels in horror still at the latest killing by ice agents in Minneapolis,

can reform in the UK continue to get away with their references to America,

connections with the Trump administration, and leaning on the sort of doge style of efficiencies in government

as their big offer in the Scottish elections we discuss.

We look also at Andy Burnham's knockback from standing in the forthcoming by-election

that would have let him jump in as a new Labour leader.

Will it all just be brushed under the carpet?

How successful will that be?

Scottish Labour seem to have got a new tactic of mandamification. Well, that sort of

refers to the groovy videos, the walking, talking, jazzy music, jumping camera shots employed by

Anna Sarwar. Will that work? And does it cut much ice? And while we're at it, my column on the Scots fans potentially boycotting the

World Cup over Greenland, it did go down like a lead balloon. So those are the headlines. Here's the

podcast. Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. Leslie, you've returned

from Burns Nights afar. Fairfaw, your honest,

sonsy-faced, great chieftain, oh, the biscuit race. I've been them all, you take your place,

hobnob, ginger nut or digestive. Weal are you worthy, oh a grace, as long as my arm.

The groaning tea plate, there you fill, your malodome like a distance hill,

your wafer would help plug a dyke in time we need, while though through your wrapper the coconut

crumb distill like flecks of amber. I think your burned supper would have been a heck of a lot

better than Keir Starmor's miserable unionist biscuit plate and tin of iron brew. Aha, that's where that's coming from. I did wonder, I wondered if you had sort of X-ray vision to sort of spot the old almond biscuit crumbs in the corner of the table here. No, that was pretty poor, wasn't it? It was actually as bad as, it was actually reminded me of Rish, remember that plenty of Rishi Sunak?

Was it alone at Hugman A?

You know, or Christmas, that wasn't it? Where he was kind of, he had got a football and he was basically trying to show. Oh, right, because he was going down through. Yes, that was mental. although that was very high production values as he kind of cruised round through number 10 on his own.

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