The Spectator podcast: Sturgeon’s second stab

On this week’s episode we question whether Nicola Sturgeon might be tempted by a second independence referendum, consider the increasingly frosty relations between the USA and Russia, and ask whether city dogs are a menace to sheep.

First, Theresa May was in Scotland this week for meetings with Nicola Sturgeon ahead of Scottish Tory conference. Thanks to Brexit, the Scots appear to have another opportunity to try and go it alone, but with support for independence still routinely polling below 50 per cent, will she pull the trigger? Alex Massie joins the podcast to discuss the subject which he wrote his cover piece on, saying:

“Britishness still matters to many Scots — but for too many others, especially lower-middle-class swing voters, being part of the UK is increasingly viewed as essentially transactional. Unionists have inadvertently encouraged such thinking by casting the Union as an agreement between four ‘equal’ countries rather than as something which has value in its own right with the potential to be greater than the sum of its parts.