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Source is a news and views services and a place to network, share ideas and discuss the issues affecting Scotland. Our weekly podcast, Beyond The Noise, looks into the stories behind the headlines.
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Beyond the Noise is a Source news podcast, looking at the issues beyond the headlines
This week, David Jamieson speaks to Willie Sullivan of the Electoral Reform Society Scotland, and how to improve Scotland's democracy beyond polling day.
Beyond the Noise is a Source podcast where David Jamieson gets beyond the headlines to look at issues in more depth.
He is joined in this episode by Chris Nineham, vice chair of Stop the War Coalition, to discuss the UK Government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill, and the ways social movements can resist attacks on the right to protest.
They discuss:
1:00 -What new anti-protest powers would the bill introduce?
5:00 – What the combination of the crackdown on protest and the new bill tells us about the future of Conservative rule.
14:30 – How did the anti-war movement deal with attempts to restrict the right to protest?
Beyond the Noise is a Source podcast with David Jamieson where he gets beyond the headlines and likes at events in the new in more depth.
This week he speaks to Madison based political sociologist Michael Billeaux about dynamics on the right of US politics in the wake of the Washington DC riot and the inauguration of Joe Biden.
1:30 – How has the Capital Hill riot impacted the Republican party and exposed schisms on the US right?
13:50 – In the 2020 election Trumpism expanded and diversified its social base. Can it build on these gains?
20:04 – What happens to the hardcore of Trump’s supporters after the events in Washington DC?
Beyond the Noise is a Source news podcast where David Jamieson looks at issues in the news in more depth.
This week Jamieson speaks to Neil Mackay, national organiser for All Under One Banner, about Yes Alba - an attempt to bring together a unified, activist led and organised.
They discuss:
1:30 – What are the latest moves to create a broad pro-independence organisation?
8:15 – Has the Scottish independence movement suffered for not having such an organisation?
12:15 – Are these preparations being made with an eye to a coming referendum?
18:15 – Should the future independence campaign be led by grass-roots activists?
Beyond the Noise is a Source news podcast where David Jamieson goes deeper into the issues behind the headlines.
This week Jamieson speaks to Pete Cannell and Willie Black of Scot E3, a group drawing together trade unionists and climate activists for a 'Just Transition' from fossil fuel.
They discuss:
2:43 – Does the idea of a ‘Just Transition’ exist beyond mere rhetoric at the current time?
11:15 – Is there a lack of a ‘big picture’ for a major industrial strategy around green economic renewal?
22:30 – Is there a danger that a vicious cycle develops, where government inaction informs fears of de-industrialisation.
3:30 – How should trade unionists and climate activists respond to COP26 in 2021?
Beyond the Noise is a Source News podcast looking at the issues behind the headlines.
This weak David Jamieson spoke to Nathalia Urban, a Scotland based Brazilian journalist who covers events in South America, about the coup in Bolivia which was overturned in elections last week.
They discuss:
0:55 – What’s the background to the movement in Bolivia, and the significance of the this election victory?
7:17 – How the international community turned its back on democracy in Bolivia.
18:18 – What’s the future of the movement in Bolivia?
Beyond the Noise is a Source podcast that gets beyond the headlines and looks at issues in the news in more depth.
This week David Jamieson is joined by Richie Venton, a trade unionist sacked by Ikea in Glasgow for informing his members of plans to cut sick pay.
They discuss:
1:00 – What is the background to the campaign? Why was Venton sacked?
6:53 – What are Ikea trying to achieve with these moves?
11:54 – What does this mean for trade unionists and workers across the country?
Beyond the Noise is a Source News podcast where David Jamieson gets behind the headlines and looks at issues in the news in more depth.
This week he is joined by Scottish National Union of Students President Matt Crilly, to discuss a university intake like no other, in a year like no other.
The discuss:
2:25 – Why SNUS are calling for increased funding for the new student intake.
5:15 – What scale of new provision is required from the Scottish Government to cover the new intake?
8:25 – What will be the impact on already limited and expensive student housing?
15:50 – What are the prospects for a new student movement, given all these problems?
Beyond the Noise is a Source podcast with David Jamieson, looking at issues in the news in more depth.
For this edition he is joined by sociology lecturer Dr Tom Mills to discuss the place of the BBC and the wider media in the Covid-19 crisis.
They discuss:
3:30 – How should we understand the BBC? What is it? What is its social purpose?
10:00 – How do we understand BBC’s claim to neutrality?
12:45 – How has the pandemic upset the BBC’s balancing act?
21:45 – Has the pandemic and the BBC’s importance in relaying official information reduced the desire of some in elite circles to shrink the BBC’s influence?
27:30 – How does the BBC decide what its news agenda looks like? What is its relationship to the wider news environment and particularly the papers?
Beyond the Noise is a Source news podcast with David Jamieson that explores issues in the headlines in more depth.
This week Jamieson is joined by Jonathon Shafi, a Scottish activist who recently criticised the Scottish Government commissioned Economic Recovery Group (ERG) Report in an article for the Herald.
They discuss:
00: 45 – What is the context against which the ERG’s report has been published?
6:15 – Does the report keep pace with the changes in economic policy we’ve seen around the world in response to the lockdown?
15:30 – Who are the people behind the report and what does the make up of the ERG tell us about its political character.
21:40 – How does the report impact the constitutional question?
Beyond the Noise is a regular Source podcast with David Jamieson, looking in detail at stories in the headlines.
For this edition Jamieson is joined by Michael Billeaux, a sociology PHD candidate at the University of Wisconsin and a participant in the Black Lives Matter movement.
They discuss:
1:00 – What is the status of the movement now? Has it changed over time in terms of the tactics it is deploying the the constituencies it is drawing-in?
3:50 – How should we understand the latest manifestations in terms of both the longer Black Lives Matter movement, and the even longer tradition of anti-racist politics in US society?
8:57 – What victories has the movement achieved, and what demands are it making?
17:50 – What impact do international protests have on the movement in the US?
Beyond the Noise is a Source News podcast, looking at the ideas behind the news agenda.
Earlier this month Scotland lost one of its most important contemporary intellectuals, Neil Davidson.
Host David Jamieson speaks to Raymond Morell, a trade unionist and socialist who was a long-time friend and collaborator with Neil, to discuss his political activism and theoretical work.
They discuss:
2:35 – How did Neil Davidson’s background in working class Aberdeen inform his approach to politics and to Scottish History?
6:15 – He was a rare ‘organic intellectual’ developing many of his ideas outside the academic circuit. Why did this make him an important voice?
12:15 – What was the substance of his intervention into Scottish history, and what political climate did it interact with?
19: 15 – Why was Davidson and important thinker in regards to the Scottish national question and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum?
Beyond the Noise is a regular Source.scot podcast, where journalist David Jamieson gets behind the headlines to explore issues in the news in more depth.
This week Jamieson is joined by Professor of Retail Studies at Stirling University Leigh Sparks, to discuss the turmoil in the retail sector in pandemic and lockdown conditions.
They discuss:
1:15 - What has been the scale of the impact from lockdown on the retail sector so far?
5:00 – Are the big retail firms in an even stronger position than before, and are smaller and family firms in a more precarious state?
10:50 – What might the retail economy look life after lockdown, will old shopping habits return, or are we in for longer term trend changes?
19:05 – How can the retail sector change to become more sustainable and socially just?
Beyond the Noise is a regular Source.scot podcast, where journalist David Jamieson gets behind the headlines to explore issues in the news in more depth.
This week Jamieson is joined by writer and activist Jonathon Shafi, to discuss the scale of the unfolding crisis, and the forms that inevitable resistance will take.
They discuss:
1:00 - Several weeks into lockdown, what picture of the crisis do we now have? How severe is it, and what is the next major turn in governing policy?
6:41 - What might emerging forms of resistance during the economic crisis look like?
13:44 - With both the EU and the US badly impacted by the pandemic and economic crisis, is Britain's position, wedged between these two spheres, even more confused and chaotic?
23:30 - What is the shape of the social movements that will emerge in this period, given that both the Corbyn moment in Labour and the Sanders movement in the US have passed?
Beyond the Noise is a regular Source.scot podcast, where journalist David Jamieson gets behind the headlines to explore issues in the news in more depth.
This week Jamieson is joined by economist and journalist George Kerevan to explore the scope of the new economic crisis triggered by the global Covid-19 Pandemic.
They discuss:
1:00 – Is this crisis just about the Coronavirus pandemic, or is there a wider context explaining the fragility of the global economy?
8:00 – Does the present crisis bear comparison to the 1920s and 30s, when the global capitalist system was incapable of solving its problems?
16:00 – Has the present era of ‘neoliberalism’ finally ended.
26:00 – How can the capitalist class argue again for the working class to pay for the crisis, after a decade of austerity?
Beyond the Noise is a regular podcast Source reporter David Jamieson, looking in depth at stories in the news.
This week Jamieson speaks to veteran trade union activist Bill Ramsay about Coronavirus, the wider economic, social and political shocks it is promoting, and what comes next.
They discuss:
1:23 – We are witnessing historic changes to the global economy. What historical eras might we draw comparisons with to try and get our bearings?
4:37 – Is the global economic orthodoxy of ‘neoliberal globalisation’ collapsing under the impact of Coronavirus?
10:00 – What might an appropriate response to the crisis at a national level in Scotland look like?
23:00 – How the UK Governments answer to the situation could threaten small businesses. What might the knock on effect be?
30:30 – Is the state going to be used to protect the wealthy and powerful through the current crisis?
33:40 - What might some immediate demands to protect working class living conditions look like?
Image by Gerd Altmann
Beyond the Noise is a weekly CommonSpace podcast, where reporter David Jamieson seeks to dig behind the headlines to discuss the deeper issues at stake.
This week Jamieson was joined from across the Atlantic by Pete Ramand, a volunteer organiser in the Sanders campaign, to discuss Super Tuesday and Joe Biden's arrival as the leading Democratic candidate.
1:17 - What is super Tuesday and why has it been to rough for the Sanders campaign?
7:05 – Are there any developments that could yet turn-around the situation and salvage Sanders’ campaign?
19:33 – Is Trump relishing a run-off against Joe Biden? What are his key limitations as a candidate?
25:15 – Why there are real concerns over Biden’s ability to go one on one against either Sanders or Trump.
Beyond the Noise is a weekly CommonSpace podcast, where reporter David Jamieson seeks to dig behind the headlines to discuss the deeper issues at stake.
This week Jamieson spoke to Luke Devlin, a human ecologist and member of the Enough Collective - a group exploring the concept of degrowth as a response to the ecological crisis.
5:33 – Why is de-growth the correct argument for the movement against environmental destruction?
9:34 – Doesn’t the idea of degrowth ignore the reality of class society, and the danger that an austerian turn would land the heaviest burden on the working class.
21:25 – Is it fair to say that we are all morally responsible for the environmental crisis? Might that not detract from the fundamental inequalities and injustices that underpin it?
30:10 – How should those serious about confronting climate change deal with the forthcoming cop 26 climate conference in Glasgow?
Beyond the Noise is a weekly CommonSpace podcast, where reporter David Jamieson seeks to dig behind the headlines to discuss the deeper issues at stake.
This week Jamieson spoke to Franny McAdam, national organiser of Cairde na hEireann (Friends of Ireland) about Sinn Fein’s historic breaktrhough in the Irish elections
0:43 – What were the reasons behind the Sinn Fein surge?
2:37 – Can the two traditional governing parties simply lock Sinn Fein out? How tenable is that position?
7:27 – What are the major obstacles to moves towards a united Ireland?
14:01 – Has co-operation between the Irish unity and Scottish independence movements improved? Is there further scope for combined action?
Beyond the Noise is a weekly CommonSpace podcast, where reporter David Jamieson seeks to dig behind the headlines to discuss the deeper issues at stake.
This week Jamieson spoke to Emily Robinson, a labour historian based at Edinburgh University who has been an activist with Bernie Sander's campaign, and who has commented extensively on the ongoing movement.
They discuss:
1:23 – How has Bernie Sanders’ Campaign come from behind to take poll position in the Democratic race?
6:25 – Can Sanders’ campaign hold the course over such a long campaign? What are the peculiarities of US politics his campaign is up against?
11:36 – Which candidates are the most dangerous to Sanders? Is there a real possibility of stitch-up by the Democrat party machine and elite backers to keep him out?
17:29 – Is Sanders the candidate with the edge to beat Trump? What might a collision between Trumpism and Bernieism look like?
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