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The Football Show · 18 October 2026
Will Scotland be independent in our lifetime? Bernard Ponsonby, former STV political editor, tells Peter Martin why "the constitutional debate hasn't gone away", why Holyrood in 1999 "was a revolution", why the Scotland Act needs a trigger for another vote, and why it won't happen while John Swinney is First Minister. Plus Nigel Farage and Reform ("he's to the right of Margaret Thatcher"), Donald Trump's second term, and two pro-Trump Americans in a Venice bar. From Straight Talk, first published in June 2026.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 The 2014 referendum and the press
0:27 Independence in our lifetime?
0:52 Harold Wilson, 1974 and growing up Labour
1:48 Dour, austere Scotland and the old order
2:48 Holyrood in 1999: "a revolution"
3:37 "Still a split nation" 12 years on
4:39 A trigger for a border poll
5:16 John Hume and the domino effect
6:13 Blair, Salmond, Sturgeon and Swinney: who leads it?
7:30 Tony Benn, Farage and charisma
8:47 Wishaw Market, the Barras and Nigel Farage
10:22 Reform: "to the right of Margaret Thatcher"
12:24 Donald Trump's second term
15:05 Two Americans in a Venice bar
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