Episodes
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Gulhane on Politics 19Jun2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week: Incompetence - how the SNP rewards failure; Awareness - improved treatments for those suffering with asthma; and Importance - cervical screening, it really does make sense. Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust www.jostrust.org.uk
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Gulhane on Politics 5Jun2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week: From Long Covid to NHS Dentistry, Humza Yousaf really did make a hash of it; Patient Safety - following the UK Government's lead, a Bill to establish a Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland; And private rental housing - how owners are exiting the market in...
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Gulhane on Politics 15May2023
On this week's Gulhane on Politics: The ongoing saga of the SNP in crisis; Tackling less survivable brain cancers; and a father's heart breaking story of his daughter's life limiting condition. The SNP drama is playing out like a Netflix mini series. Police Scotland pitched its tent on Nicola...
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Gulhane on Politics 30Mar2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week, we reflect on the SNP membership’s choice of the ranting, gaff-prone Humza Yousaf as their Party’s leader – and OUR First Minister; we take a quick look at Mr Yousaf’s eye opening appointments to his government; And we have a message for Graeme Dey, the new...
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Gulhane on Politics 20Mar2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week: Long Covid - 175,000 Scots suffer with this debilitating condition; Cancers - tackling those with the poorest survival rayes; and Crime - we need to do much more to support victims. Well, it’s fair to say that the SNP leadership contest has descended into farce.…
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Gulhane on Politics 13Mar2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week, we focus on: Spite - and the SNP in civil war; Bite - Scotland's NHS is in crisis; and Tight - Scotland's ever expanding waistline and the country's obesity crisis. They say a week is a long time in politics – far less 2 or even 3. Since our last series, Nicola...
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Gulhane on Politics 6Feb2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week: The rapist and Nicola Sturgeon - why won't the First Minister admit Adam Graham / Isla Bryson is a man...or a woman ? I also explain my own position on the controversial Gender Recognition Reform, which I voted for. And we pay a visit to Clyde Gateway - a…
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Gulhane on Politics 30Jan2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week: Stumped: Tackling racism, change at Cricket Scotland; Creep: The SNP welcome a sex pest back into its ranks; and the amazing Men’s Sheds – pushing for funding. Last July, an independent review into racism at Cricket Scotland concluded that those who raised...
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Gulhane on Politics 23Jan2023
On Gulhane on Politics this week: Spin: We're accused of misrepresenting the data in an Freedom of Information response from NHS Grampian. But we didn't - and we have the proof that we simply communicated what they said. The SNP leadership have also weighed in, trying to deflect from their...
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Gulhane on Politics 16Jan2023
Greetings for the New Year and welcome to the 3rd Series of Gulhane on Politics. The Scottish Parliament has returned from its winter recess. And during the break from Chamber politics, in the real world outside Holyrood, Scotland's health service faced near collapse - while the SNP's man in...
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Gulhane on Politics 12Dec2022
On this week's Gulhane on Politics, the last episode in 2022, we look back on the year. We remember Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's final journey to Scotland's capital; We also reflect on a year of political drama; And we highlight the Scottish Conservative's plan to support the NHS and patients...
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Gulhane on Politics 6Dec2022
On this week's Gulhane on Politics, we lead on this year's World AIDS Day debate in the Scottish Parliament. In Scotland, the goal is to achieve zero new infections by 2030. We have come a long way in recent years. But still too many at-risk people don't know how to protect themselves from...
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Gulhane on Politics 28Nov2022
On this week’s Gulhane on Politics, what a week in Scottish politics ! Warning: Our micro picked-up foul language from an SNP heckler at 2 mins 56 secs into the episode. In a unanimous ruling, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court determined that The Scottish Parliament does not have the power to…
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Gulhane on Politics 21Nov2022
On this week's Gulhane on Politics, we consider the UK Chancellor's tens of billions of pounds in tax rises and spending cuts aimed at mending the nation's finances - and what this means for Scotland. I'm joined by Liz Smith, Scottish Conservatives Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance and…
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Gulhane on Politics 14Nov2022
On this week's Gulhane on Politics we focus again on Scotland's SNP-led government's stewardship of the country's health service - and we call for the resignation of its hapless Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf. We also meet with the Marie Curie organisation which provides amazing palliative / end…
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Gulhane on Politics 7Nov2022
The Scottish Government is pushing ahead with its plans to establish a National Care Service. The Bill, as it stands, allows Scottish Ministers to transfer social care responsibility from local authorities to a new centralised service. It's the most radical reform of Scottish public services…
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Gulhane on Politics 31Oct2022
The Scottish Parliament is pressing ahead with the Gender Recognition Reform Bill which aims to make the process for trans men and women to legally change their gender much simpler, quicker and less traumatic. In this week's Gulhane on Politics, I explain how I voted - and why. A video recording…
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Gulhane on Politics 24Oct2022
The United Kingdom has a new head of government. Rishi Sunak is Britain's first Hindu and non-white Prime Minister. At 42, he's also the youngest since Lord Liverpool in 1812. Rishi is charged with reinforcing the return of market credibility, fixing the economy, sustaining public services,...
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Gulhane on Politics Conference Special 5Oct2022
In this the last episode in Series 1 of Gulhane on Politics, we have a special interview from the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. Gulhane and Politics will be back for Series 2 on October 24th, when the Scottish Parliament returns after its autumn recess. The Conservative Party held...
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Gulhane on Politics 3Oct2022
This week's show tears into the Scottish Health Secretary's shambolic management of the NHS. We also home-in on the scandal of a very fishy SNP ferries contract - £150 million over budget and 6 years overdue. Our sights are also on Glasgow's regeneration and its hope to host the next Eurovision...
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Gulhane on Politics 26Sep2022
The cut and thrust of politics has returned to the Scottish Parliament and the SNP-Green Government is under fire for its shambolic management of Scotland health services. Yet the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon continues to deflect and blame the pressures on our NHS on others - despite the fact...
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Gulhane on Politics 19Sep2022
After 10 days of official mourning in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, culminating in the state funeral for Britain's longest reigning Monarch, this week we have a second, special edition, of Gulhane on Politics. Across Scotland, the tributes have been many and heartfelt. But with the...
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Gulhane on Politics 12Sep2022
This week, we have a special edition of Sandesh on Politics - to reflect on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's amazing seven decades of service and the beginning of a new era with King Charles III as Monarch. This podcast was recorded on Edinburgh's famous Royal Mile, where we spoke with many…
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Gulhane on Politics 5Sep2022
On this week's show, Scrutiny: The Scottish Parliament returns from its summer recess - and a new UK Prime Minister; Harmony: Can singing help people recover from Long Covid; and Ceremony: Scotland's Indian diaspora celebrates.
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Gulhane on Politics Trailer 31Aug2022
Hello and welcome to the trailer of a new weekly podcast, Gulhane on Politics. I’m Dr Sandesh Gulhane, Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow Region and the Scottish Conservative’s Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health, Social Care and Sport. Gulhane on Politics will launch on Monday...