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LATEST ARTICLE!
School Toilet Bullies For Women Scotland, by Josie Hervey
“According to “For Women” Scotland, schools “face a Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute” over single-sex spaces. If you wanted proof of their bad faith, look no further.
Our children – all of them – need to be safe in schools. Pretending that only people assumed to have a penis can be guilty of bullying or assault doesn’t help keep anyone safe: spaces that children are going to use need to actually be safe… READ ON
Ungagged! presents:
Prick Knobison – Road Trip USA
Gangrenous Road Stumps- Prick on the Road USA Part 2 – Ungagged!
Prick continues his journey in the USA. Travelling in Beryl, a land yacht of a Cadillac from NY to Seattle. What will become of him this time?
A Prick in Manhattan – Ungagged!
Prick Knobinson sends a spicy report on his visit to the best of Manhattan’s bars. Warning: It’s not for the faint hearted! But is a seriously good listen.
Prick Knobinson – Ungagged! – Farij’s Fucking Hangover
Our occasional contributor Prick Knobinson reports in his own inimitable style the current situation on the state of fascism in the country today. Be prepared for a telling off!
Janis & Graham – Ungagged! – A day is a long time in politics!
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; Trump and, and… UK Politics with Labour, Reform UK, Alba, SNP & Independence… and Trump, DOGE & Musk.
Janis & Graham – Ungagged! – New Year 25 – Bumper Pod
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; the new US President & Elon’s Nazi salute, the rise of Reform UK, Labour’s failings & SNP in the polls and the Gaza “ceasefire”.
Janis & Graham Ungagged! – December 24 Pod Pt 2 – Everything else!
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; everything but the US elections, including the situation in the Middle East.
Janis & Graham Ungagged! – December 24 Pod Pt 1 – US Election & Trump
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; the US elections & Trump.
Richie Venton Season Ep5: Don’t Shaft the Grangemouth Workers in the way the Miners Were.
The SSP Trades Union Organiser on the proposed closures of Grangemouth refinery.
Janis & Graham Ungagged! – S2 – Ep3 – Still don’t know what they’re thinking
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; Angus Robertson & Palestine, Devolution Disruption, College Lecturers & Pay Offer, US Election.
Richie Venton Ungagged! S2 Ep3: “He Earns WJanis & HAT while I struggle?
Richie Venton, the Scottish Socialist Party Trades Union Organiser on Labour and the SNP’s choice of nu-austerity.
Richie Venton Ungagged! Reject the Filthy Rich, Filthy Racists!
Richie expands on last weeks episode and contextualises the far right organisations and the filthy rich people who instigated the recent riots into the wider history of the imperialist UK.
Richie Venton Ungagged! – Season 2 Ep 1 – How to Organise against the Fascist Thugs.
All Richie Venton Ungagged Season 1 Podcasts can be found HERE
All Season 1 of Janis and Graham Ungagged can be found HERE
Open Letter to Scottish Political Parties
Open Letter to Scottish Political Parties regarding attacks on our LGBT+ community. Please contact us if you would like your name added.
Richie Venton Ungagged! Episode 9: Aftermath of the General Election.
Richie Venton, the Trades Union Organiser of the Scottish Socialist Party talks through the General Election result and how Labour will perform as our new government.
Election Analysis: Cllr Graham Campbell, SNP Socialists
This is my initial analysis: “I’ve now had a bit of sleep and seen enough of the detail of results to form some observations from an SNP Left perspective.
Holyrude Ungagged – Westminster GE Special
Host David McClemont is joined by Val Waldron, Rachael Horwitz and Neil Anderson. In this live recording discussion is how we have ended up having an election right now and what the Exit Poll results mean for the UK & Scotland.
Prick Knobinson Ungagged! “Do Something You’ve Never Done Before…”
Prick on the LibDems.. Transcript Video below.
Neil Anderson Interviews… Anne McLaughlin
Neil interviews SNP GE24 candidate for Glasgow North East; Anne McLaughlin. Find out about campaigning, Green Deals, Scottish Pantry Network & attracting folk to Independence.
Ungagged Gaza Demo 15th June 2024 Report
Footage on STUC & Stop the War Coalition march & rally in Glasgow. From Glasgow Green to Queens Park Recreational Area around 3000 people marched and then heard some great speeches. From Neil Anderson.
Neil Anderson Interviews… Gerry Hassan
Political commentator, writer and academic Gerry Hassan talks to Neil Anderson on GE24 including; SNP possibly losing 3rd Party status, The Reform Party, MSM coverage of the GE in Scotland and the Kirkcudbright Fringe.
The Candidate by Prick Knobinson
Prick Knobinson on Farage
Prick Knobinson on the General Election…
Holyrude Ungagged Season 7 Episode 3 “Where Does Contra Come From?”
David and Connor discuss the New Scottish Cabinet and ask, Is Uk Labour undermining Scottish Labour? Plus – Nefarious Tory plans for Scotland and English Water Contaminated by parasites!
Holyrude Archive HERE
Richie Venton on the lessons of the Miners Strike – 40 Years on…
Ungag the Choons!
Ungag the Choons! – Season 1 – Ep 2 – “First People.”
Ungag the Choons! – Season 1 – Ep 1 – “It’s sugar coated, it’s accepted…”
Neil Scott (@nwScotty) talks about a song that helped radicalised him as a teen in Troubles torn Northern Ireland.
Ungagged Presents: Worldbeat with George Collins.
Worldbeat With George Collins – George interviews Kathleen Siminyu Parts 1 and 2
Joining George Collins on WorldBeat is Kathleen Siminyu. Ms. Siminyu is an AI Researcher who focuses on Natural Language Processing for African Languages. She works at The Mozilla Foundation as a Machine Learning Fellow and prior to that was the Regional Coordinator of AI4D Africa. She has vast experience as a community organizer having co-organised the Nairobi Women in Machine Learning and Data Science community for three years. Part 1 – link to part two on page.
Worldbeat Archive HERE
RiC Meets SNP Socialists
Brilliant conversation from two progressive Scottish socialists and regular Ungagged contributors; Connor Beaton RiC & Graham Campbell SNP Cllr. Independence and the left. This is a discussion all serious Scottish lefties need to listen to. What kind of Scotland are WE fighting for?
Short Pod: Raging Not Hating, by Val Waldron
Short pod version of Val’s superb piece: Val differentiates between the feelings of rage and anger that drive us forward to effect change, and the gathering clouds of hatred that threaten to destroy us. See below for written version.
Ungagged Scottish Independence Special!
With contributions from our own Val Waldron (Twitter: @scribblingval) and David McClemont (@DavoMc82), plus the Scottish Green Councillor, Martha Wardrop (Twitter: @MarthaWardrop), David Peutherer of Scottish CND (Twitter: @scottishCND), SNP Councillor Graham Campbell (Twitter: @ceeGraham1) and a view from the USA from our George Collins – All held together (and edited by) Neil Anderson (@BikerNeil).
All Ungagged Podcasts available HERE
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Latest Writing
School Toilet Bullies For Women Scotland, by Josie Hervey
“According to “For Women” Scotland, schools “face a Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute” over single-sex spaces. If you wanted proof of their bad faith, look no further.
Our children – all of them – need to be safe in schools. Pretending that only people assumed to have a penis can be guilty of bullying or assault doesn’t help keep anyone safe: spaces that children are going to use need to actually be safe… READ ON
Informed Consent: Scotland’s Place as a Tolerant Nation
Eilidh McIntosh discusses seconding a motion on an Informed-Consent model in Scotland for transgender patients at the upcoming SNP party conference.
It’s Time to Play the Music… ELECTION DAY!
Tears, Fears and Electioneers…
Damien Donnelly on the Labour Party and others, succumbing to right wing culture wars.
Theresa May – Good Riddance
Neil Scott on Theresa May’s extraordinary last speech in the House of Commons.
Election Balls…
by Willie Miller’s Moustache
A New Social Contract – Reforming The SNP Into A Genuine Peoples Party
I think it would be helpful for Independence and the promise of a more egalitarian Scotland if a certain archetype of SNP member took their blinkers off for a minute and had a deep think about what is going to make our party electable and popular. – Eilidh McIntosh
Jackie Baillie, 5 Gallons of Chicken Gravy and a Straw… Willie Miller’s Moustache has an idea how we can heal the indy movement…
Entitlement by Val Waldron…
Hoyle’s Hubris and the Hackery of the Britpol Old Firm… by Willie Millar’s Moustache
A Charter for Transphobes – By Damien Donnelly
“With soaring hate crime rates… the real danger is not from treating trans people the way they wish to be treated.”
Dreaming in Green – By Val Waldron
Not a week goes by in Scottish politics when the decision to vote No in 2014 does not rear its ugly head.
Do You Embrace the Era of Genocide? – By Sam Hamad
Sam Hamad’s interpretation of the current situation in the middle east.
Independence And The Cost Of Westminster Crisis – By Mhairi Hunter
In the wake of the Rutherglen & Hamilton East by-election, SNP conference delegates prepare to meet in Aberdeen.
In My Booze Induced Delirium, I’ve Come Up With Plan B For Indy… – By Willie Miller’s Moustache
Willie Miller’s Moustache shares his drunken plans for gaining independence.
Don’t Vote Labour – By David McClemont
David McClemont discusses the disappointing seeming return to the era of New Labour under Starmer and Sarwar.
The Queue – By Val Waldron
Val Walrdon remembers the death of the Queen and the devotion shown by her loyal subjects.
Autoimmunity Within the Independence Movement – By Val Waldron
The obstacles to our independence are not all about media-led rabid unionism, or floating voters. By Val Waldron.
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