James Cook
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1,517 appearances
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3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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There was an entire protest outside the BBC HQ about it.
More than one, but there was one in particular that colleagues um still in this building r recall.
But my point was that because the the that it was the yes side that were advancing significant and dramatic, potentially dramatic, constitutional change and publishing a big document about it, a lot of the focus was on scrutinizing that proposition.
I think
Quite reasonably to scrutinize robustly the proposition that was being put forward for significant constitutional change.
And I think it was our duty as journalists to robustly interrogate that proposition and to test it to the greatest degree possible.
However, if you're a supporter of independence, you might well say, well, the media also had an opportunity in 2014 to robustly scrutinize the UK, its country.
Current status and its potential direction of travel, which arguably the media did not do in as much detail.
And that guy saying Boris Johnson will be Prime Minister and the UK will leave the European Union if Scotland votes for independence.
I'm not, you know, I'm not saying Boris Johnson being prime minister is necessarily a negative thing.
That's not for me to say, but that was certainly his perspective.
My point being, did we talk about that as much?
No, we talked about
And also that's an
No, no, no.
I we I very much empathize with your position, Adam.
But no, you were you that weekend.
I just
My wife had a baby a month before the referendum, or six weeks ago.
Yeah, but yeah,
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