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Our Scottish Future Our Scottish Future
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4.4 • 14 Ratings
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Join former UK Prime Minter Gordon Brown and the Our Scottish Future team for conversation and debate with interesting individuals, smart thinkers and people with new ideas about how we can build a more cooperative UK. Our Scottish Future fights for a better Scotland within a reformed UK, and for a more cooperative UK.
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Bringing Positive Change to the Community with Katie Kelly
Positive change is possible in Scotland, and it's happening. New podcast with former East Ayrshire local authority leader Katie Kelly on how the council there helped to build vibrant communities. Political consensus needed to promote this brilliant work across Scotland.Thanks for listening! Get the latest by following @scottish_future
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Scotland's Schools: The Next Pisa the Puzzle with Lindsay Paterson and Melvyn Roffe
In the wake of disappointing PISA results, Our Scottish Future Director Eddie Barnes is joined by two experts in Scottish education: Lindsay Paterson, Emeritus Professor of Education Policy at the University of Edinburgh and Melvyn Roffe, Principal of George Watson's College.Listen as they dive deep into Scotland's PISA results; why do they need to improve and how can they improve? This engaging and informative conversation covers multiple areas of Scottish education policy, including the Cur...
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A Little Less Conversation: Closing Scotland's Implementation Gap
*LINK TO VIEW SLIDES REFERENCED*The recording of the presentation of the new report from Our Scottish Future. Titled, "A Little Less Conversation: Closing Scotland's Implementation Gap", the report argues that the successes of devolution has been stymied in recent years by a combination of “too much politics, too much government, a failure to cooperate, and a centralised political culture”. It praises several successes under the Scottish Government but concludes that Ministers too often “gove...
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Scotland's NHS under the microscope
Our Scottish Future's Eddie Barnes is joined by Alex Neil, former Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Helen Puttick, health reporter at The Times and Professor David Kerr, head of the OSF health commission and professor of cancer medicine at Oxford University, to discuss Scotland's NHS and how it can be improved.Thanks for listening! Get the latest by following @scottish_future
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The Robin Harper Interview
Eddie Barnes interviews Robin Harper. They cover; Harper's headline news making decision to resign from the Scottish Greens -the party he once led as the first Green MSP in the Scottish parliament- to climate change and the future of the UK. Thanks for listening! Get the latest by following @scottish_future
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Pump Up The Volume
Heat pumps. You've heard a lot about them, but what actually are they? Are they a solution to our energy troubles? Are the Scottish government's lofty goals deliverable? Our Scottish Future's Eddie Barnes speaks with Dr Peter Wood, an Associate Lecturer at The Open University in Scotland, a researcher in sustainability, and a trade unionist to find out more.You can read Pete's blog on the topic here:https://ourscottishfuture.org/pump-up-the-volume/Thanks for listening! Get the latest by follo...
Customer Reviews
Our Scottish Futures
Great podcast , loved the metro mayors passion for their area and people - one voice for all - Key sentiment that really resonates is “Make decisions for people by people that are as close as possible to the people” - That is where modern politics and policy needs to be so we can get away from career politicians and party politics for real change. We need to decentralise Holyrood and give the power to the Scottish people.
Monologue
British unionism talks to itself. No dissenting voices allowed, so Broon ignores the views of the 50+% of Scots now committed to a non-U.K. future.
Brilliant!
Great podcast - amazing to hear such insight from Gordon Brown and his guests. Looking forward to future episodes!