Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN THIS week's podcast Jamieson is joined by Tejas Mukerji, speaking in a personal capacity as an activist in SNP socialists and SNP Campaign for an Independent Currency as well as a founder of Neutral Scotland.

They discuss:

US President Donald Trump’s statement that the NHS is on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal is an open goal that the independence movement surely can’t miss

YOU can ignore most of what Donald Trump said today [4 June] in his joint press conference with Theresa May in London. 

In ministerial statement on the Referendums Bill, Michael Russell points to Brexit, the Tory leadership contest and the European elections as justifications for the new legislation

Andrew Smith (@Andrew_Graeme), campaigner and blogger, urges the SNP’s big win at the European Parliament elections to be treated with caution by Yes activists, understandably eager for a second independence referendum

Catalan democracy has functionally outgrown Spanish law

EVEN before the full results were in, many sought to interpret this month’s European parliamentary elections as a proxy for matters beyond the vote at hand, on everything from the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn to the uncertain strength of the far right.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN THIS week's podcast Jamieson is joined by CommonSpace editor Ben Wray to discuss the European elections from Scotland to Brussels, London to Rome.

They discuss:

00:40 – What can we learn from the election results for the SNP and Labour in Scotland?

Mary MacCallum Sullivan, a pyschotherapist from Argyll, says Scotland needs a modern re-statement of the Declaration of Arbroath nearly 700 years after the original

I worry that we sometimes forget that independence too is a moral fight; a moral fight against the fact that Thatcherism and its brutality still dominates British politics 40 years later. We fight for a better nation because the victims of Britain's brutal economy still bleed to this day.

MacAlpine, Robin, 24 Jan 2019.

Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine argues that the independence movement remains remarkably united when compared to other major social movements around the globe

I’M WRITING this on the plane coming back from a week-long Erasmus-funded training camp in the Catalan hills (hurray the European Union!). It's been vegan food without coffee or alcohol, meditation every morning and a day of complete silence alone up the top of a hill.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN THIS week's podcast David Jamieson speaks to author Paul Mason about his new book, ‘Clear Bright Future: A radical defence of the Human Being’, and how his belief in radical humanism relates to the politics of Britain and Scotland in the Brexit crisis.

Mason and Jamieson discuss: