The Ponsonby and Massie Podcast
Hosted by Alex Massie and Bernard Ponsonby and Massie and Ponsonby and Alex and Bernard · Solid Media
4.9from 44 ratings
- 131
- Episodes
- 130
- Transcribed
- 44
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 151K
- YouTube views
About The Ponsonby and Massie Podcast
The two biggest names in Scottish political journalism, Bernard Ponsonby and Alex Massie, join forces to bring you a regular “must listen” insider briefing on the political and wider world.Bernard has been Scotland's leading TV political editor for many years while Alex is the unavoidable commentator and columnist for the Times and Sunday Times. Together they bring decades of experience and unsurpassed contacts books to provide you with a valuable insider briefing behind the headlines.Scottish, Scotland, Scottish Politics, Political Podcast, Scottish Political Podcast, UK Politics, Scottish Independence, Indyref, Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Salmond, Sturgeon, SNP, Scottish Labour, Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Lib Dem, Scottish Greens, Alba Party, Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, John Swinney, Anas Sarwar, Holyrood, Westminster, Brexit, Budget, Devolution, Policy, News Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Solid Media
- Category
- government · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jun 2024
- Latest episode
- 19 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
130 of 131 episodes have a transcript.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
MICHAEL MARRA - NEW SCOTTISH LABOUR LEADER
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4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
SCOTLAND'S £5bn ABYSS - Is Swinney Austerity Inevitable?
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MICHAEL MARRA - NEW SCOTTISH LABOUR LEADER
Published 19 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] More broadly, he has the challenge, as you say, to make labor relevant. Young people in particular who have come from Labour backgrounds no longer gravitate towards the Labour Party in the way in which their parents and their grandparents did. Many of them will have found environmental politics and what they would regard as aggressive human rights politics and therefore would be more likely to support the Greens. And a number of them, of course, who are grown up in an era which has been shaped by identity politics around national identity questions. will be gravitating towards the SNP. He has to basically make Labour relevant, but he's got one or two challenges coming up in the Parliament, which has just been elected. which will determine whether or not he really is a new kind of leader or whether or not it's business as usual. […]
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- YouTube views
- 150,863
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- 4.9 / 5
- 44 ratings
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- 63
- Social presence
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- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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Alex Massie and Bernard Ponsonby and Massie and Ponsonby and Alex and Bernard host the show. Published by Solid Media.
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