{"id":201,"date":"2021-12-04T16:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T16:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/?p=201"},"modified":"2021-12-04T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T16:15:37","slug":"you-know-what-its-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"YOU know what it&#8217;s like &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting ages for a bus then four come along at once.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I hadn\u2019t had a broadcasting gig for a while and in the past week I\u2019ve had two.<\/p>\n<p>In the first, on John Drummond\u2019s TNT (The Nation Talks) show, I was a late replacement for one of the best known members of Scotland\u2019s legal establishment, Aamer Anwar, but I thought it was interesting, especially with the variety of questions coming from online viewers.<\/p>\n<p>TNT is here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TNT Show. Ep 82. Greg Russell, journalist at The National.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HWb0JP9DyiI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second was the following night at Civic House in Glasgow, where members of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) hosted a meeting with their president Elisenda Paluzie.<\/p>\n<p>ANC is the pro-independence grassroots group which has organised some of the memorably massive marches of recent years (pre-pandemic) in support of Catalan independence.<\/p>\n<p>The group has a network of international brnaches, including one in London and another in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Paluzie and I were joined there by broadcaster, journalist and author Chris Bambery, who has written a number of books, including A People\u2019s History of Scotland, and Catalonia Reborn, which he co-wrote with George Kerevan.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan discussion is here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scotland and Catalonia: The Struggle for Independence in Contemporary Europe.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IgZnD-p8S28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s back to waiting for the next bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting ages for a bus then four come along at once. Well, I hadn\u2019t had a broadcasting gig for a while and in the past week I\u2019ve had two. In the first, on John Drummond\u2019s TNT (The Nation Talks) show, I was a late replacement for one of the best known members of Scotland\u2019s legal [&hellip;]<\/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-201","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\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregrussell.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}