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Richie Venton, National Trade Union Organizer for the Scottish Socialist Party, analyzes Andy Burnham’s Labour government and incoming Chancellor John Healey’s fiscal plans. For quick access to new podcasts, search for Ungagged! on your podcast provider. All Ungagged Podcasts are available HERE. You can also find our podcasts on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
They’re draining our oil- the next capitalist goal is to crush Scottish Independence for our water… Would you support giving nature legal rights to fight back against data centres in court? It sounds like a radical idea, but when you look at how the Westminster establishment is selling off our basic resources to tech billionaires, […]
By Sam Hamad By voting SNP today, or Green in the English local elections, or our comrades in Plaid Cymru in Wales, you’re voting against everything the sordid, filthy, pathetic Labour Party stand for. Here’s a quick rundown of Labour’s record of shame: Supported the Tory Hard Brexit Stifled any progressive conversation on rejoining the […]
By Neil Scott Back in 2018 when I spoke at a NECE conference about my journey from the partitioned landscapes of Ireland to the streets of Glasgow, I was thinking about how borders act as psychological -and physical – fences. I argued that our job as educators is to help young people climb over those […]
By Indybag If you listen to the shouty men on the telly or the grifters on X, they’ll tell you that Reform UK is a new force coming to shake up the establishment. They talk about taking the country back and standing for the real folk against the Westminster elite. But pull back the curtain […]
By our Political Correspondent It began not with a grand manifesto or a flurry of corporate white papers, but with a humble sandwich shop in the heart of Edinburgh. In 2012, Josh Littlejohn and Alice Thompson looked at the jagged edges of our society and decided that “business as usual” was no longer an […]
By Damien Donnelly Tory/Reform No-Show… Almost exactly ten years ago (March 2016), I attended the first ever ‘LGBTI+ hustings’ for Scottish Parliament elections in Edinburgh. It was at this event that Nicola Sturgeon stated the SNP’s intention to reform gender recognition in Scotland, including recognition of non-binary identities. The legalisation of same-sex marriage was just […]
Jock Mulligan on ’70’s Sci-fi masterpieces we ignore at our peril” I have been sittin’ here in the house with Dave lashing against the glass and the wind howling like a banshee through the eaves, for these November to April storms seem to have become the new normal as the world is titim-ing toward the […]
by our Political Correspondent There is a particular kind of chill that settles over the soul when the machinery of war and the ledgers of a private healthcare system begin to merge. We are talking about the commodification of our most intimate secrets, the records of our births, our cancers, and our mental collapses, and […]
By our Health Correspondent. It is a common mistake to view the current state of our people in Scotland as a series of unfortunate biographical accidents, or perhaps as a collective failure of what the nineteenth-century novelists used to call “character.” When one actually walks through these post-industrial landscapes today, it becomes difficult to avoid […]