Gordian Knots

The Lesley Riddoch Podcast

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president on Monday. We look at the inauguration, Trump's raft of immediate Executive Orders and the worldwide implications of what his presidency heralds.
Those potential effects are having to be factored into the UK government's economic strategies and diplomatic actions.
Meanwhile apparent splits are appearing in Scottish Labour which were writ large in the "painting by numbers" interview with Kirsty McNeill Labour Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Scotland on the BBC's Sunday Morning Show.
The Scottish government is currently arguing that measures such as creating a wealth tax and setting up a National Energy Company are snookered by The Scotland Act. Are there bold, innovative ways to circumvent it and why is the SNP leadership so committed to playing by the UK's rules?
Axel Rudabukana has pleaded guilty to the Southport murders. Yvette Cooper has promised an inquiry into why so many warning signs were missed by so many agencies. However big questions still remain over the Labour governments clampdown on the release of information on Rudakubana which may have squashed the anti immigrant, anti Muslim internet rumours which fuelled the subsequent riots.

Lesley reacts to the first episode of An t-Eilean (The Island) – the UK’s first ever high-end Gaelic drama series.

Lesley has also launched the first of her YouTube films on Iceland and its green energy/heating revolution Hot Springs Town check it out here
https://lesleyriddoch.com/films
There's also chat about music. Bob Dylan and Sibelius. Not so strange cultural bedfellows.

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