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Holyrude Episode 4.2 – “The Pod Before The Storm”

David McClemont (Twitter: @DavoMc82), Debra Torrance (@HeathPeaPict) and Kat Cary (@kat_cary) discuss the latest events in Scottish and UK politics NEWS – Scottish Green Party Suspend ties with Green Party of England & Wales –  Over 330,000 Deaths Linked To Tory Austerity – Chancellor Sacked! – Labour & Tories Compete To Bash Immigrants Music by […]

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Holyrude Ungagged Season 4 Episode 1 – “Wounded & Undermanned”

David McClemont (Twitter: @DavoMc82) and Connor Beaton (@CDBeaton) discuss the latest events in Scottish and UK politics NEWS – The Death of Queen Elizabeth – The Reign of King Charles  Begins – New Prime Minister – First Openly Gay Footballer in the Men’s professional game in Scotland Music by @HippyMuzic Art by @HeathPeaPict Edited by […]

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As Close to Federalism As The Moon

If the federalism shills couldn’t see this coming, they really weren’t looking. This move essentially leaves Labour without even the pretence of argument for the reformable UK that we’ve been promised since 2014. We’re as close to federalism as we are to the moon, and thus concludes the centre ground arguments against independence.  Take time […]

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North East communities must lead Scotland’s Just Transition 

This last July saw the 34th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, in which 167 people needlessly lost their lives. Workers on two nearby platforms, Claymore and Tartan which pumped to Piper Alpha, could see that the platform they were pumping to was alight. But they had been told never to shut off the oil […]

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Ungagged’s David McClemont:Breaking new ground for the Greens in Blantyre

As a young schoolkid in primary three, David McClemont was given a homework exercise where he had to show he could use various words in a sentence. “One of the words was ‘witch’ and so I wrote ‘Maggie Thatcher is a witch’,” he recalls.

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Holyrude Season 3 Episode 2 – Foosty Cookies

David McClemont (Twitter: @DavoMc82), Debra Torrance (@HeathPeaPict) and Brian Finlay (@WeeSociologist) discuss the latest events in Scottish and UK politics NEWS – Partygate: The Second Act – Lorna Slater under attack again! – UK Plan to send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda – Did Corbyn cause Labour to lose Scotland? Music by @HippyMuzic Art by @HeathPeaPict […]

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A Snapshot of 2021 by Val Waldron

‘Alexa give me a snapshot of 2021 without mentioning Covid’  Can I help? All of the events below were of course shot through with Covid, antivaxxers, restrictions, opposition and media undermining of the Scottish Government health message, oh, and big shouty businesses. It didn’t stop the world from turning though! In Search of Q We […]

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Holyrude Ungagged – Episode 2.5 All COP26s Are B******s

NEWS – COP26 Climate Summit begins in Glasgow this Sunday – Oil Company Spying on Environmental Activists – Green Co-leader attacked by Tories and Tabloids for challenging “The War on Drugs” – Tories vote to dump raw sewage in England’s rivers and beaches Music by @HippyMusic Art by @HeathPeaPict And Tayler Cunningham Gives her REASONS […]

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Raging Not Hating by Val Waldron

No-one deserves or asks for violent death because someone else thinks you don’t deserve to live. If that were the case there would be a death penalty for women who walk home alone at night or for daring to pack up your family and meagre belongings and set out across the channel in a dinghy […]