16/03/2017 Timeline

On this week's Timeline, a sideways look at what's ahead

We'll also be getting the Charlie Hebdo take on the state

of the EU and we're joined in the studio by a seven-year-old

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to the people launching the first amputee football Scottish Cup,

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We brought you the story of dancing with dementia here on Timeline.

Now the whole world has seen it, after it went viral with over

We'll be joined by the star of the video.

Well, we've seen a flurry of announcements this

week on the subject of another independence referendum.

On Monday, the First Minister said she wanted the power

Today, the Prime Minister said now is not the time.

But first, we sent James Devoy to Stirling to give us his

unique take on the timing of a second independence referendum.

I will seek the authority of the Scottish Parliament to agree with

the UK Government the details of a Section 30 order, the procedure that

will enable the Scottish Parliament to legislate for an independence

referendum. Its back on. Cue the music.

So it appears we will be doing a referendum fandango once again. Yes,

yes, I know what you are thinking, some of us, let's be frank, maybe

Yes voters are jumping at the bit to it again while others would rather

have a short, sharp, kick in the crotch. In my view, this is a once

in a generation, perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for

Scotland. Once in a generation is what we at but how did we end up

IKEA? If Twitter is to be believed, and isn't, this drawing of Maggie

Simpson is the answer... No, yes, it is Brexit's full. So what can we

expect from IndyRef2. Good news, it is going to be a quite and sedate

affair where we listen to both sides equally. Best time of the day, this,

when they are all out, nice and quiet. Remember when we had to hear

cereal? Who has to be told that? It's the most important meal of the

day. All that time Kay Burley called a guide... EXPLETIVE. Or when we

find that Alex Salmond had the voice of an angel and inexplicably we're

both green fans. How are you feeling about the new trend, happy we're

doing it again? Trent Renata not really, no. Have you had enough? How

many referendums is enough? She should be concentrating on something

else. I would like another vote having voted No last time. You would

vote yes this time? Yes. I think that what has been said has been

said and 5% was not enough but I suppose there's no real harm in

asking again and I think the EU has made a big difference. Honestly, who

knows any more? The question of Scotland's Constitution is not going

anywhere soon, the Yes side will keep going until they get the answer

they want and the No side will get the answer if they don't. Me, I'm

going to let the good times roll because these referendums come along

faster than Marvel movies. Are we going to see a recommend any

time soon. We are far from a deal on that, on Monday, Nicola Sturgeon try

to open in negotiation on having another independence referendum but

today, Theresa May tried to close it down. You have a massive stand-off

between the Scottish Government and the UK Government. The SNP think the

Prime Minister's intervention could drive up support for another

independence referendum and perhaps for independence itself. The

Conservatives might be a bit nervous about that but they will keep their

fingers crossed that the Prime Minister's stance will be seen as

reasonable because she is not saying never, just not now. You have a huge

battle for public opinion and both sides cannot win it. But it will

keep you busy for the coming months and years, that is clear. One of the

main reasons given for a second referendum is to protect Scotland's

position in Europe. But what will the EU actually look

like in two years' time? Robert McLiam Wilson is known

as the Irishman Abroad. He lives in France and

writes for the satirical So we know that the U:K.'s leading

the EU but that necessarily mean that the European Union is falling

apart? It is certainly how it seems in Europe itself, on the continent

of Europe. People are dismayed at the departure and dismayed at how

negotiable or impossible to see the future is but Europe is not falling

apart any time soon. There's lots of elections this year and lots of talk

about the rise of the far right spot in the Dutch elections, the party

representing that point of view has failed to make a big breakthrough.

Can we read much into that when elections in France and Germany are

looming? I think you can read everything into it. It is a bit like

America at the minute in the sense that Europe is going selectively and

passionately mad but unlike the US, we are not having that intense

romance with stupid. There's no such thing as too stupid for the

Republican base whereas in Europe, some of that stuff plays very badly.

I think after 40 years of everything being in favour of the liberal

project in democracies and advanced societies, I think this is racism

and far right thinking's great big moment and thankfully, we should be

glad they are completely blowing it. Will that also be the case in France

or Germany? The problem in Germany, I think, it is unlikely to go far

right because the far right leaders there are a symptom in fact of a

political brain drain. Politics is a very bad career choice at the

moment, but good people don't go into it. Barack Obama was an

outlier. I don't see a lot of people like him coming. It is no accident

the Dutch guy was a young, green left, good-looking, charismatic

figure. Marine Le Pen has one thing the others don't. She is not stupid.

And that is slightly worrying. But nonetheless, the system here

mitigate against, I think, a far right choice because there is a

second round in which it is almost like cheating for the far right,

they can't win if it is one-on-one but in a democracy, what you don't

want is just as important as what you want and I think people don't

want, can I say dumbness? Is that all right? You have said it now

anyway. Briefly, last question, will the EU be worth being part of in a

few years' time? I don't know. My attitude is if Scotland breaks off

from the United Kingdom, then Northern Ireland is going to look at

its own position very quickly. I'm from Belfast and I know that

particularly well. And what is England going to be after that, and

Wales? Is it going to be some kind of run, Tory, permanent future? I've

been the EU will certainly be a better bet than England and Wales.

-- I think. Robert, thanks for joining us.

We brought you the story last week of dancing with dementia.

Now it's gone global - with more than 9 million

People forget about being who they are. They all join in. Otherwise

we'd be sitting like this, sad, for two hours!

So much for dancing - it got an awful lot

Here's some of your reaction to it online.

Vanessa Bailey says: "This is beautiful and amazing and reminds

us that life is precious and rich at every stage".

Lisa Pearson says: "I have Lyme Disease which affects me

cognitively and I'm sure that starting tap classes is helping."

Edinburgh March Riding Association says: "So very lovely.

Well done on bringing happiness to these folk."

We're joined now by the star of the video - Chris Wilson,

For those very few people who have not seen it, remind us what the idea

behind the dance classes is. The idea is to provide a facility for

care homes and care centres, basically, bringing dance to the

community. Specifically, what I was doing is a project called Seated

Swing which was funded by dance base in Edinburgh and it is simply seated

exercises which are engaging everybody in the group to basically

improve their mood and their strength and also, kind of, some of

their cognitive function as well hopefully. We can see how they

absolutely loved it. Have you been amazed at the reaction you have had?

I can't get over it. It's been incredible. Yes, I'm still trying to

get my head around it because it's been an incredible response, which

is brilliant, it is raising the awareness of this really simple

thing. To the whole world, which is great. With an ageing population,

dementia is a big and growing problem, how much an unmet demand is

therefore this kind of thing. There's a lot of unmet demand

because there is a huge demand. There's a lot of centres that need

this kind of thing and hopefully in light of this video, it will raise

that kind of awareness and the thing is, this work is going on all over

the world. I'm not pioneering it but I'm happy to be a platform for

people to recognise this as a Ruediger thing. Nice of you to come

in to talk to us. Thank you and good luck with the project. Thank you

very much. Well, that was a social

media sensation. And remember, if you have anything

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to follow up through Facebook and Twitter, you can find us online,

or you can email us. Universities are meant to be

bastions of free speech and freedom of thought,

but there's a growing trend now to The idea is that students should be

shielded from offensive language - with the concept that universities

should be safe spaces. But when do safe spaces

become censorship? We got Glasgow University student

Isaac Callan to make this film. It's an ever-growing issue for

universities. Should speakers be allowed to make offensive remarks?

Should speakers with controversial views be invited to speak in the

first place? And to what extent should the university be a safe

space for its students? Somewhere they are safe from offence? Take the

example of some universities banning newspapers they disagree with, like

the sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express. And there have been

protests against controversial visiting speakers, like this one at

Oxford against Marine Le Pen. Now this row has reached Scotland. I a

student at the University of Glasgow where every three years, we elect

someone to become the rector to represent our views on university

Court. The current rector is famous whistle-blower Edward Snowden. 11

people are now in the running to replace him including human rights

lawyer Anwar Anwar, former politician Vince Cable and Milo

Yiannopoulos. I am of course not be racist or the sexist or anything of

that the posters... He's a right-wing commentator who is best

known for making inflammatory and misogynist remarks. A big supporter

of Donald Trump, a recent speech of his was cancelled after huge

protests against him at the University of California. Thousands

of students in Glasgow are outraged. But despite a petition to remove

him, the student Representative Council said it would be

undemocratic to take him off the ballot. I don't think he can really

be our representative, given the diversity of our student population,

it's obviously a very small number of people that support him, and even

among the council, there are lots of different views as to what approach

we should take, platforming, no-platforming, tolerating or not,

that kind of thing. All we can do is try to ensure it is a smooth

election and everyone gets a fair shot. His presence on the ballot

could be said to go against the ethos of safe spaces. But Professor

Tom Scotto of the University of Strathclyde says universities should

be open to controversial views. Largely rather than engaging in a

debate, it seems to be a race at this point to shout down the other

side's speakers, to prevent the other side from being able to air

their point of view. I guess the big issue facing us that Glasgow is

whether we protest Milo and draw attention to his campaign or ignore

him and hope he flopped at the ballot. The debate around Milo

Yiannopoulos beads into a wider conversation about whether

universities should be safe spaces. Whatever the result here, that

conversation is set to continue for quite some time.

Amputee football has taken off in other countries,

That's about to change though, with a Scottish Cup

Its profile here rose after this remarkable goal

Half-time entertainment here, what a finish that is! Great half-time

goal. That had millions of hits on the Internet.

So far, there's only one club in Scotland - Partick Thistle.

But we can reveal on Timeline tonight that Hearts are to become

the country's second club, as the sport tries to expand.

We're joined now by footballer Brian Murray, and Ashley Reid,

who's the director of the Amputee Football

Brian, how did you get into amputee football? I found in a Matip zine at

a local hospital. I contacted Lee English league to see if there was

anything in Scotland, so I can like that idea later I was invited to

play in a cup game. Had you been good before the amputation? I lost

my leg at ten to cancer, and before that I played football. Even after I

lost my leg, I used to play with crutches. It was only later on, it

stopped. You were playing amputee football for Everton? What body back

to Scotland? We did a taster session, to bring it back to

Scotland. We got four or five players, and now 15 or 16. It's

grown. This is why we wanted a Scottish team. Had he got a team

now? We launched with Partick Thistle community trusts, I could

see there was an appetite for the sport, Brian did a taster session,

and it's been instrumental in helping us form and amputee football

Association Scotland. With now got a fourth team with 15 or 16 players,

although it is played seven a side, and they're taking it over to the

east, and hopefully after that north and south. How many clubs you need

to get involved for the Scottish Cup? We will probably do east versus

West for the Scottish Cup. But we need to create a league in Scotland

akin to that in England, where a lot of premiership clubs have amputee

football teams. Can anyone join that hasn't amputation? Yes. Other rules?

In the Paralympics you have rules according to disability. The

outfield players have to play in crutches, and they touch the ball

with their good like they are penalised. It is a free kick. What

do you get out of it? For me, confident. My confidence has grown

since I started playing amputee football. Even to go about with just

one leg, that's what's given to me. I love football, and the me this is

a dream come true. Football is full of money, and there's a lot of talk

about that now. Are the mainstream clubs and organisations willing to

put some of it your way to help out? I hope so. Will be looking for that.

The SFA have been supportive which is wonderful. I initially went to

them and said I think there is an ambit of the matter appetite for

amputee football. We worked with Partick Thistle to make that happen

and the SFA are behind us. Their endorsement and going out to clubs

out there who, really, a lot of the Scottish clubs have excellent

disabilities sport going on. If we get them on board, we are winning.

Thanks for joining us. What's next? Most of you will

remember Gordon Aikman. He was diagnosed with Motor Neurone

Disease three years ago, and raised hundreds of thousands,

and inspired many more, with his Gordon died in February at the age

of 31, but his legacy lives on - and on Monday a bill of top comics

will take part in a benefit gig That's where I went to meet one

of the them, Des Clarke. I met Gordon a few times and

followed the story and they asked me to host the first one that he did a

couple of years ago. And just seeing him and his courage was brilliant.

I30 came backstage as well beforehand, and said to the

comedians, you're so brave. Imagine trying to get people to laugh. We

looked instead, I think you might have won that one. He's going out

there and fighting an amazing fight for a great course. So that's what I

did it. Gordon got on stage that night. He did. He tried to upstage

all of us. He was the first act on stage to say some words to the

audience about what the gig was about, or why they were here, why

they wanted to see Frankie Boyle, to see him. He was great. Did some

jokes, got off. He asked the comedians backstage how it went. He

was used to getting support throughout everything he was doing

and we all came out and said you were rubbish. We don't care, mate.

Just don't take this up as a career. That's what he loved. He laughed. We

told him how it was, and he enjoyed the company of comedians and using

comedy to get his cause out there. It was brilliant for them. Was it

awkward for you finding comedy out of such a serious subject? It is.

Let's be honest. Motor neurone disease is not a comedy subject.

That's why Gordon came up and talked about his story and his disease, it

was great fuss. Because it was the elephant in the room kicked into

touch. -- it was great for us. With Scottish. The best way to deal with

negative things is to laugh. Fight against it. Gordon had such a

positive outlook and we had a great night. And nothing will change next

week. Fred Macauley, Kevin Bridges are on. And I'll were set. We'll be

up there and doing the best we can to entertain the audience and give a

tribute to Gordon. Knowing that he's sitting up there watching us,

probably watching, and knowing where saying, it we love you but your

rubbish comedian. Gordon was involved in the Better Together

campaign. As a tribute to him, I'm going to dust down my Indyref

campaign jokes. This is a sequel to the Indyref. And Donald Trump is now

a big figure in the scene so I don't know how he'll play, Obama got

involved in the first one. Will we get from coming out saying we will

make Scotland great again, gripped Hadrian to build another wall. The

people will come out. That will happen. Because of Gordon's

political involvement, and the fact we're doing it now, Indyref two

might get a few mentions in the night.

That will be a good to. -- a good gig to go to.

Seven-yeair-old Marcus Tinley is a very active youngster.

But while most boys his age are playing sports, Marcus's

Marcus is thought to be one of Britain's youngest winter

climbers, having mastered how to scale peaks in crampons

He joins us now with his Dad, Simon - welcome, both.

Is it true that Marcus started climbing at the age of two?

What aides were you when you started climbing? -- what age were you?

Three. What do you like about climbing ayes I like spending time

with my dad and going camping and I make fires with them. You make fires

as well? You also like Trail running? What is that? You run down

a mountain but it's really fun. Because you can do stunts. Looking

at pictures of it now, it looks dangerous. Is it not scary? It is

scary sometimes. He's quite a daredevil, this young man? He's got

the confidence and a sense of balance as a young child. We've been

able to go out and enjoy the mountains on progressively got

longer in terms of the duration, three or four hours now six or seven

hours. We had a lot of fun together. You get any negative reaction? What

are you doing taking a young boy up the mountains and such? It's usually

positive. I can't believe it sometimes. We explain it starts off

at the gradual level and it's built up over time, and with his natural

energy that he has, he's able to last and really enjoys it, don't

you? Marcus, would you like to do all the mountains in Scotland? Yes.

What's been your favourite so far? When I was on Ben Lomond in the

snow. What did you like about that. We were on the trail, we found a

Mars bar that sealed. My dad said shall we open it and I said yes. And

it did with energy and we went back to the top of the hill. Just a small

grip. -- a small bit. You're raising money and you have to be safety

conscience. Loch Lomond Mountain Rescue filmed

this short guide for Timeline. I've got what you need for a day's

hill walking, go walking in Scotland. A hat, a bag, drink, food

for the day with some extra encase you get into trouble. A set of a

jacket. And waterproof trousers, essential to keep the wind off which

is a real enemy in Scotland. A nice warm, insulated jacket. This is warm

even wet, but I keep it in a waterproof bag. I bring a small

first aid kit, an essential item is a group shelter. This is a 2-person

one, it could be a life-saver in a bad situation. Even in summer, a

sad, grey head torch is essential. You should also have an ability to

navigate. I have a map and waterproof paper. In case of an

emergency, I have a torch battery and emergency whistle.

I must remember that advice when I go hill

Not sure but I think we're going to stay in a bothy.

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