Jun 30, 2018

After musings on German versions of fairy tales, the World Cup, and Lesley's sweariness watching football we begin with the recent reshuffle of Scottish government ministers. The faces may have changed but what about the policies?

This and Lesley's recent wee trip up to Lismore sparks her thoughts on local democracy,...

Jun 22, 2018

After bemusing Lesley with my opening homage to last week's star guest, Katrin Odsdottir, we return to relative sanity with Lesley's reflections on her recent film trip to Iceland.

Some of you may just have noticed that there's a World Cup happening in Russia, and Iceland, population around 300,000, have qualified...

Jun 13, 2018

On the day that Ian Blackford led a walk out of SNP MPs at PMQs in protest at the Westminster Brexit power grab Lesley spoke with Katrin Oddsdóttir, who features in Lesley's latest film in the Nation series.

 Katrin was one of 25 members of the Constitution Council of Iceland, which drafted a new constitution for the...

Jun 7, 2018

After, in my mind at least, the best intro I've ever done, Lesley tries to make sense of the recent YouGov poll which showed Scots to be more optimistic about the future than either the Welsh or English.

She's "assisted" in this by the revelation that I was part of the group of Scots surveyed.

We can't escape Brexit, no...