Val Waldron Writing Latest Val Waldron: A Hill To Die On Val looks to new developments that will hopefully modernise the NHS even in the face of the current crisis. Neil Scott Writing Latest My Old School… Brandon and Me Neil Scott on why the decisions Brian “Brandon Lee” McKinnon made were driven by Tory […]
Month: January 2023
Podcasts
Talking Sense Erin and Kat two North American women tackle a difficult job; making sense of Scottish Politics. Latest Talking Sense: Gender Recognition Reform Special Ep 3.4 #TalkingSense asked trans people what life is like in this current moment before Scottish Parliament votes on #GRR legislation. Holyrude Ungagged Weekly podcast on (mainly) Scottish Politics from […]
Holyrude Season 4 Ep 10
All the latest on Scottish Politics January 2023. – Zahawi tax cheat – UK Gov overrule GRR – Sunak no seatbelt
My Old School… Brandon and Me
By Neil Scott During my first year living as a mature student in Scotland in a breeze block built room in the University of Stirling in early 1994, we crowded around the only TV in our corridor. It was owned by a working class Scot, Gary. On the flickering, fuzzy screen (the aerial being one […]
A Hill to Die On by Val Waldron
“The political and media exploitation of an under-resourced NHS and the scapegoating of our Health Secretary for political gain undermines the real need for cross party work towards progress. Let’s hope that the newly formed Long-Covid Inquiry group is well intentioned. We cannot afford to take our eye off the ball when it concerns the […]
Art for Whose Sake? By Scarlett Cannon-Geraghty
As someone who was not as academically gifted, I was lucky enough to have parents who are both creatives in their own ways, who capitalised my creative successes and pushed me towards what I was naturally more drawn to. I then ironically in a state of teenage middle-class angst rebelled against art in the most […]