{"id":1309,"date":"2024-06-21T17:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2024-06-21T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:13:31","slug":"somehow-managing-to-not-have-much-to-do-with-the-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Somehow, managing to not have much to do with the general election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019VE been doing my best to stay away from the general election apart from watching the odd leaders\u2019 debate and wondering how Fiona Bruce manages to escape any censure from the BBC for her constant and very rude interruptions every time an SNP representative speaks (particularly against Kate Forbes and John Swinney).<\/strong>
\nAway from politics I\u2019ve been clearing out various boxes and files and came across a few cassettes (remember them) from my time at Radio Scotland.
\nProblem was I didn\u2019t have anything to listen to them with, but I managed to get them converted into a format from this century.
\nThe one below is a radio documentary about a battle in the 1980s to save Newbattle Abbey College in Dalkeith.
\nI was alerted to the campaign by an old and very dear friend, the late Ron Curran. He was the Scottish organiser for the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE \u2013 now UNISON) and the first person I had heard predicting the emergence of \u2018super-unions\u2019 in the UK.
\nAnyway, have a listen and if you like it, drop me a note.
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I\u2019VE been doing my best to stay away from the general election apart from watching the odd leaders\u2019 debate and wondering how Fiona Bruce manages to escape any censure from the BBC for her constant and very rude interruptions every time an SNP representative speaks (particularly against Kate Forbes and John Swinney). Away from politics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}