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Our Scottish Future
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...
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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 counc...
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,...
A Little Less Conversation: Closing Scotland's Implementation Gap
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The recording of the presentation of the new report from Our Scottish Future.
Titled, "A L...
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 Ti...
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 h...
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...
Scotland's Drug Deaths with Annemarie Ward and Stevie Wishart
The Our Scottish Future podcast is looking at key policy areas in Scotland to ask why things aren't working, and what we can do to fix them.
How excellent is the Curriculum for Excellence? With Aveek Bhattacharya, Emma Seith & Dr Neil McLennan
Welcome to our revamped podcast! Rather than provide a running commentary on recent political events, we want to use this podcast to discuss policy an...
Fast Start or False Start for Humza Yousaf? With Willie Rennie MSP, Jenny Marra & Philip Rycroft
Our Scottish Future Chair Prof Jim Gallagher fills in for Eddie Barnes this week and is joined by former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Renni...
What Awaits The Next First Minister? With Prof Jim Gallagher, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lucy Dunn
This week’s Our Scottish Future podcast looks ahead to the challenge facing the new SNP leader and First Minister who will be elected next week. What...
Scotland's democratic health with Prof James Mitchell, Johann Lamont and Donald Cameron MSP
This week Eddie is joined by James Mitchell, Professor of Public Policy at Edinburgh University and one of Scotland’s foremost experts on devolution a...
The Fallout Continues with Prof Jim Gallagher and Cllr Molly Nolan
Prof Jim Gallagher and Cllr Molly Nolan discuss the continuing fallout from Nicola Sturgeon's decision to quit office. They set out their opinions on...
Scotland's Shaken Kaleidoscope with Kirsty McNeill and Philip Rycroft
Kirsty McNeill and Philip Rycroft join Eddie to chat about the extraordinary couple of weeks we've seen in Scottish politics since Nicola Sturgeon ann...
Making Change Happen with Eitan Hersh [LIVE EPISODE]
On Wednesday 6th October we were joined by renowned US political scientist Eitan Hersch, author of "Politics is for Power", for our online event event...
Playing to win with Ruairidh Macintosh
In this week's podcast, Eddie Barnes speaks to Ruairidh Macintosh, the author of our report on Scotland's video games industry.
Globally...
Buses with Dr Pete Wood and Mark Ross
In this week's podcast, Eddie Barnes speaks to two experts in sustainable transport, Dr Pete Wood and Mark Ross, the co-authors of our report on refor...
Gordon Brown on the Cost of Living Crisis [LIVE EPISODE]
On Wednesday 16th March, Gordon Brown sat down with an online audience to share his plan to tackle the looming cost of living crisis and reveals why a...
Joining up with Lisa Nandy MP, Sarah Boyack MSP and Prof Jim Gallagher
On Friday 4th March, Our Scottish Future and the Scottish Fabians held a joint event near the Scottish Labour conference, joined by Lisa Nandy MP (Sha...
A United Kingdom with Catherine MacLeod and Andrew Dunlop
Catherine MacLeod was a special adviser to Alistair Darling when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and is a former political editor of The Herald. An...
Health inequalities with Prof David Kerr
Prof David Kerr is one of the most respected NHS figures in the UK. He is a leading voice in NHS reform and co-author of our report on the UK’s wideni...
Gordon Brown, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram are the metro mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region. In this episode they join Gordon Brown to re...