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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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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.

    Beyond ‘SuperThursday’ - where next for the democratic crisis?

    Beyond ‘SuperThursday’ - where next for the democratic crisis?

    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.

    • 33 Min.
    Social movements can beat attacks on the right to protest

    Social movements can beat attacks on the right to protest

    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?

    • 28 Min.
    Beyond the Noise: The Republicans are down but far from out

    Beyond the Noise: The Republicans are down but far from out

    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?

    • 29 Min.
    Beyond the Noise: Is Yes Alba the future of the indy movement?

    Beyond the Noise: Is Yes Alba the future of the indy movement?

    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?

    • 21 Min.
    Beyond the Noise: The far from just transition

    Beyond the Noise: The far from just transition

    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?

    • 38 Min.
    Beyond the Noise: The Bolivian Coup and Western Complicity

    Beyond the Noise: The Bolivian Coup and Western Complicity

    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?

    • 23 Min.

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