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Scotland: Why May election is essential for independence motion, and the UK – podcast

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May 7, 2022
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Scotland: Why May election is essential for independence motion, and the UK – podcast

Nicola Sturgeon needs to make use of a mandate on the May 6 elections to argue for a second independence referendum.

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, as Scotland prepares to vote in landmark parliamentary elections on May 6, we discover why the query of independence from the UK is dominating the talk. And a staff of researchers working with fruit flies, has found a organic swap that may flip neuroplasticity on and off within the mind. What may that imply?

It’s been seven years since Scotland voted to stay within the UK within the 2014 independence referendum. At the time, it was billed as a once-in-a-generation vote, however now Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, argues that the UK’s Brexit from the European Union is a change important sufficient to warrant a second referendum. Meanwhile, help has been rising for independence over the previous few years.

Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party (SNP) is the most important pro-independence group. If pro-independence events maintain a majority within the Scottish parliament after the May 6 election – Sturgeon will ask the UK authorities in Westminster, led by Boris Johnson, for a second referendum on Scottish independence. But he’s unlikely to agree.

In this episode, we communicate to a few consultants to elucidate what’s at stake and what might occur subsequent. Kezia Dugdale, is director of the John Smith Centre and a lecturer in public coverage on the University of Glasgow, in addition to a former chief of the Scottish Labour Party. She explains that an individual’s stance on independence is “nonetheless the largest dominating issue over how you’ll vote in party-political phrases” in Scotland. Dugdale predicts that if there’s a pro-independence majority, however Johnson’s authorities refuses to grant Scotland permission to carry a second referendum, “there’ll be lots of Punch and Judy-style forwards and backwards”. But she says that each time the UK authorities says no it can work within the SNP’s favour as a result of, “it reaffirms every little thing they inform the citizens in regards to the UK authorities not observing the desire of the individuals of Scotland”.


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‘Brexit has modified individuals’s minds on independence’: Q&A with Kezia Dugdale, former Scottish Labour chief

Darren Nyatanga, a PhD candidate on the University of Liverpool, the place he’s researching the constitutional impacts of Brexit on the UK union, explains the method via which a second referendum might occur. He says the referendum’s legitimacy is important, significantly given the SNP’s want for an unbiased Scotland to rejoin the EU. “If the EU doesn’t recognise the legitimacy of independence,” he says, then its unlikely they are going to be forthcoming in “accepting them as a member state”.

And economist Graeme Roy, dean of exterior engagement on the College of Social Sciences on the University of Glasgow, units out the financial arguments utilized by each side within the independence debate. Roy says that so much has modified economically for Scotland because the 2014 referendum, significantly attributable to falling revenues from North Sea oil. “That actually issues in a Scottish context,” he says, as a result of it has greater public expenditure than the remainder of the UK, “so oil revenues would have been a technique to assist it help that.”

For our subsequent story, we hear about some new analysis into neuroplasticity – the mind’s skill to alter its construction. The brains of younger animals can change extra simply than adults – which is why, for instance, children can study languages extra simply than adults. Many illnesses are attributable to to little or an excessive amount of neuroplasticity – and having the ability to flip it on and off has apparent medical advantages.

New analysis printed not too long ago by Sarah Ackerman, postdoctoral fellow on the Institute of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon, and her staff, on their analysis utilizing fruit flies, seemed into what controls these adjustments. The aim is to assist battle illnesses, however this work might additionally probably unlock the superpowered studying that comes with a malleable mind. We discuss to her about what she’s discovered.


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Astrocyte cells within the fruit fly mind are an on-off swap that controls when neurons can change and develop

And Moina Spooner, commissioning editor at The Conversation in Nairobi, Kenya, provides us her beneficial reads for the week.

The Conversation Weekly is produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. You can discover us on Twitter @TC_Audio, on Instagram at theconversationdotcom. or by way of e mail on podcast@theconversation.com. You also can signal as much as The Conversation’s free each day e mail right here.

A transcript of this episode is out there right here.

News clips on this episode are from BBC News, ITV, Sky News, Channel 4 News, The Telegraph and CBS News.

You can hearken to The Conversation Weekly by way of any of the apps listed above, our RSS feed, or learn the way else to pay attention right here.

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