TV DEBATE SUN 7PM

I've just enjoyed a very strange evening recording an hour's show about Scottish independence before a London audience of young, black women (in the main) and a couple of voluble Scots. It was a Press TV event, chaired by Andrew Gilligan, filmed in a studio in deepest Chiswick with a four strong panel of myself, SNP MP Angus Brendan MacNeil, Labour MP Gavin Strang and UKIP MEP David Campbell Bannerman. It seems the prog is on Sky Channel 515 on Sunday night at 7pm and repeated a lot during the week. Channel 515 – hardly mainstream Sky you're thinking. And you're right. Turns out Press TV is funded by the Iranian government. And the channel broadcasts mainly Iranian news – the Iranian Al Jazeera as it was described. I'd be more worried about the Iranian connection if I could see any interest Iran might have in promoting or subverting Scottish independence. I think I may also have been a bit mouthy. Doubtless you'll let me know what you think!