In this week's episode the WFIs have some questions for Dave Murchison, creator of Indy social media platform The Hub. 

We also bring you the news from 1883 with an excerpt from Jenny Eeles book Treaty of Union Articles:As Collected from the British Press 1700-1900 

Then, we drop into the virtual coffee shop where the conversation turns to the Olio app which aims to combat food waste from supermarkets by giving it away.

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In this episode, we have questions for Richard Walker, the editor of the Sunday National and we pay another visit to the virtual coffee shop.  

Just Dust - Sheila Nichols

Mortalitoad - Finn Straife

The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Tennyson performed by Sven

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In episode 1, John chats with Richard Walker, the Editor of the Sunday National.  

Non stop/Test drive - Angus Shoor Caan

Summer's lease - Sheila Nichols

The Covid Generation - Lauren

Universe, Earth, Mother - Lorraine Sinclair

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A man o' Words -  Paul Colvin, performed by Lynne Dougha

Winter - Sheila Nichols

My inner life - Robert William Service performed by Lorraine Sinclair

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In the bleak C19 - Angus Shoor Caan

Women - Sheila Nichols

Winter - Edwin Morgan performed by Valerie Gauld

A psalm of life - Henry Longfellow performed by Lorraine Sinclair and dedicated, with love, to Indypoet Paul Colvin - get well soon Paul!

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Clear - Angus Shoor Caan

Happiness - sheila Nichols

Chicken Karma - Lynne Dougan

Still I rise - Maya Angelou, performed by Lorraine Sinclair

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Red Tape - Angus Shoor Caan

Dusk - Sheila Nichols

Stay home, stay safe, stay kind - Lynne Dougan

Heroes and heroines - Paul Colvin (performed by Lorraine Sinclair)

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In this episode we have a virtual coffee meet-up and lively discussion, followed by an interesting clip from Dr Philippa Whitford on the importance of contact tracing, plus some information on volunteer group Med Supply Drive Scotland who are helping in the drive to get PPE sourced and distributed, and finally a bit of time travel - enjoy!

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Shield - Angus Shoor Caan

Berry picking - Sheila Nichols

Bellies of Fire - Lynne Dougan

These are the Hands - Michael Rosen, performed by Sven Jorgenson

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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This week our theme relationships between people and between countries.  We chat to Stirling Women for Indy's Kim Nicoll, who is also a women's aid worker and we listen in on Alan Bisset's thoughts about where the indy movement is heading.  

Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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How much will it cost? £175 billion. This is less than Trident, about the same as HS2, two thirds of Scotland’s share of what we found to cover the banking crisis, and only five times as much as we’re paying out for PFI schemes in Scotland.

It will take 25 years to do everything. We would finance it over two generations, 50 years. If we borrowed that amount all up front ( which we won’t need to do actually) it would cost £5 billion a year to service that borrowing. That’s a normal level of national borrowing repayments.

When you put the scheme through the Scottish Government’s economic multiplier - and yes it is a very approximate guestimate - even with conservative assumptions it comes out as generating £4billion a year in extra revenue from economic growth and 100,000 jobs. It would also take resources back into public ownership and that creates another £1.5billion national income.

This is our generation’s equivalent of the Victorians building the railways, or the Keynesian projects after WW2 that built the hydro-electric stations.

It’s not beyond us. It’s mainly engineering. And what are Scots good at? Engineering. It will create massive numbers of jobs. We’ll need tradespeople, a design revolution, architects, scientists, etc, etc.

It assumes no income from oil & gas. We also fix the supply chain for the transition from oil in NE Scotland to this plan. We end up with an extra £1.5billion to spend over and above having paid for the borrowing.

We need to get independence to do this. While we are in the UK we can’t finance it, we don’t have control over the means to carry it out and we’re still stuck in the UK economic model.

In fact we need to unite the independence and climate change movements. Climate change movement is now bigger than the independence movement even there is a lot of overlap.

Commonweal doing a Common home stage show around the country this year, taking the plan round the country including music festivals. Need a team to do that and spread this message. Commonweal is also going to be homing in on all political parties because now it’s manifesto time for 2021.

Buy the book from Commonweal website or download all the material free. https://commonweal.scot/our-common-home

Part 2:

The ten themes covered by the plan:

These are related to UN Millennium Environmental Threats but the team asked which of these are a threat here in Scotland and then worked out how to adapt and mitigate in those areas.

We touch on : land reform, grouse moors, forestry. How we build sustainable energy solutions depends on local conditions, eg Glasgow could get 30% of its heat requirements for 40 years from water in its old mines. Derelict land and is a national resource and generally land will be at the heart of enacting the Common Home plan.

We don’t need a national land company. We need small land owners like the Nordic system. Of course the big land owners will be up in arms but there’s only about 500 of them. Changing land ownership patterns would also help redistribute wealth. It would help wildlife. A denser Scottish forest would be in better balance with wildlife, as it is in Norway. We could even reintroduce top predators like lynx and wolves.

Land use connects over to building which can be better done using wood than cement. A house built of wood is actually built of carbon.

Robin is emphatic that it’s not enough to talk about individual responsibility, it needs collective and connected systematic change. The ten sections included in the Common Home Plan are also interconnected and mutually beneficial.

We go on to talk about effect of implementing this plan on other countries and on our trade with them. One of our impacts on other countries at the moment is they use their land to export food to us, soya, palm oil. But that reduces their biodiversity and often degrades their soil. We have to reduce our impact to zero not only in Scotland but in the whole planet. Robin had a telling example: we eat a Spanish orange and then pee their water into our water system. Meanwhile in Spain they have water shortages and soil problems.

Planetary Zero is harder but it’s doable. It will need deglobalisation. We need to make more stuff for ourselves.. food, construction materials, domestic appliances, etc etc. We’re an energy rich country so energy for intensive hydroponic food production is no problem. So even avocados are still going to be available even in winter. We could even mimic climate conditions for Sicily and grow our own lemons.

Is this protectionism & isolationism? No, it’s re-industrialising our economy in a green sustainable way.

All of this discussion comes back to taking on board that everything in the world is interconnected and dependent on each other. Robin thinks the only exception to that might possibly be Piers Morgan brain.

Part 1:

The climate emergency is the background to this and how we can adapt and mitigate its likely effects in Scotland and also take responsibility for our environmental impact elsewhere in the world.

Robin talks about the understandable ecological grief that climate campaigners and researchers experience but also describes how engaging with how we can fix it has turned that emotionally around for him.

We talk about how the plan came about and who has been involved. One of Robin’s main emphases is that what we do to fulfil the plan needs done well. We can’t just do it piecemeal. We need Clyde-Built standards again.

We get into a bit reminiscing about improvements in washing machines over the past 50 years. Robin can remember twin tubs but Val and Marlene can remember helping our grannies with her mangle. But the point is that there is no such thing as waste, just bad use of resources. We become accustomed to built-in obsolescence and that needs to end.

Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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Stuart McHardy's revisioning of Scotland's History.

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