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Written by Emily Morrow on April 19, 2021 What brought you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being on the air? About 15 years ago, when I was the chair of the Communications Program at Dean College, I went out to WICN to look for internship opportunities for my students. I ended up talking to the PD about music and got one myself. This has to be the longest internship in radio history! What is your favorite WICN memory? One Monday night I got a call that a longtime listener of the show wanted to drop something off for me.
MY goodness, what an apocalypse awaits an independent Scotland, at least according to Struan Stevenson ("The breakup of the UK will damage Scotland, Britain and the special relationship", The Herald, April 15). Post-pandemic economic meltdown, geopolitical catastrophe, devastated savings, public sector cut to the bone, eye-watering levels of taxation, soaring mortgages, plummeting pensions, sea of debt, bankruptcy, Joe Biden pacing the Oval Office in alarm… Well, there’s much to alarm President Biden, but I don’t think the prospect of Scottish independence will be top of his list. I...
In real life. Take the other big political media event of the week – David Tennant’s cheeky stunt with Saltires as guest presenter of Have I Got News For You (HIGNFY). The Bathgate-born presenter played a medley of pictures featuring Union-flag-flanked Cabinet ministers and suggested the BBC might get into trouble for the programme’s own flag deficit. Announcing, “I think I can fix that,” a curtain of massive Saltires appeared behind Tennant who smilingly planted a small Scottish flag on his desk to laughter and applause from the London-based audience. It was a great and telli...
Muscular Unionism a Disaster for the Union “As other UK nations pursue different lockdown rules and messaging, the public may be adapting to the strange idea of a prime minister who speaks for England alone.” – Philip Rycroft. A damning report by Philip Rycroft, the permanent secretary to the Brexit department until 2019, Prof Michael Kenny, and Jack Sheldon has concluded that the pandemic has seeded the idea of a prime minister “who speaks for England alone” and warns of complete deterioration of relations between the four nations of the UK amid “deep-rooted complacency”. The...