An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.
Also in the video below - SHE'S BACK!!! Corri Wilson, matriarch of the "Corri Nostra" faction of the defunct Alba Party, has emerged from hibernation, and this time she wants to "explain democracy" to you - possibly in return for a small fee.
My YouTube channel has reached two new milestones over the last few days - it's hit 2000 subscribers, and for the first time one of the individual videos has exceeded 10,000 views. That prompted me to take a look at the five most popular videos so far and see if there was any discernible pattern in the subject matters, and, well...see for yourself.
1. The BBC, realising they haven't betrayed Scots quite hard enough yet, scrap the BBC Scotland channel - 10,002 views
2. Eurovision and Israel: No More Hiding Places For The BBC - 7,162 views
3. Of course ITV's Good Morning Britain should apologise for its anti-Scottish chauvinism - but it won't - 6,173 views
4. The BBC will ALWAYS be fearlessly neutral and even-handed...except on these four subjects, naturally - 5,527 views
5. Watch out for ORCS! Rory Stewart thrillingly brings back "The Middleland", by no popular demand - 5,001 views
I only make videos criticising the mainstream broadcast media very occasionally, and yet when I do, those videos often exceed the average number of views quite significantly. This does not appear to be a country that is entirely happy with the way it is served by TV and radio.
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.
Over the last few days, several people have been asking how I fared in the SNP internal elections. As I explain in the video above, I'm pretty much certain that I've been elected to one of the four committees that I stood for - namely the Conduct Appeals Committee. So that will be a successful outcome, but I don't want to tempt fate by saying anything too definite until I see the official confirmation. I'll let you know once I'm 100% sure it's official. In the meantime, here are some photos of my time at the conference in Aberdeen (and as you can see, I made sure I got in a little bit of touristy stuff because I don't get to Aberdeen very often). I think we were all particularly impressed by the speech from the Deputy First Minister of Wales, Sioned Williams, and of course it was a landmark moment, because although fraternal addresses from a Plaid Cymru speaker have been a feature of SNP conferences since the year dot, this was the first with Plaid as the sole party of government in Wales.
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.
