Photo reproduced without permission- owner, please contact Ungagged 1. Those attracted to the politics of ressentiment often have some basis for their feeling of victimhood; they have experienced oppression, do not feel they fit in with mainstream society, and therefore politics. They perceive a gap between the world in how they experience it, and how […]
Left Politics
Wings over Russia
I’ve never been a huge fan of Stuart Campbell. To put it as bluntly as possible, he’s an arsehole. Or maybe I’m just prejudiced – It could be that I took my mum’s tongue-in-cheek warning, while singing the song about and explaining to me the events of the Massacre of Glencoe, to never trust a […]
The Politicians are behaving like children – Pt1
https://ungagged.podbean.com/mf/play/8ahs9m/June_pod_pt1_Mixdown2.mp3 Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean We have 5 pieces for you: From Laura Lundahl who talks about immigration in the UK and is titled “Goodbye you bigoted woman – The tears of Theresa May’s victims should get far more attention that her’s did”. Mhairi Hunter muses on Trump’s State Visit to the UK, Philip Hammond’s seeming […]
This is what a British Trump looks like.
In 2016 the world was shocked when the United States political system elevated a privileged self centred man child with a long record of making bigoted statements to the highest office in the land. The UK is facing its own Donald Trump moment as Boris Johnson looks set to become the leader of the Conservative […]
Hopeless Proper
It’s not easy to keep your head above water in these politically turbulent times, but do we have a choice? I’d say that we don’t. The future is not ours to give up on. We all have our low points though and for me the world really shifted on its axis on 7th November 2016, […]
Dare – It’s Better This Way!
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean After a break, Ungagged is back! Neil Scott rants like a red ham about Brexit, the empire and the climate protests, Debra Torrance and Laura Lundahl tell us to Dare, and Laura also tells us that it will be better! Music from, Phat Bollard, Vokxen, Jackal Trades and Katie MF! Get […]
Knapdale Beavers and Land Reform
Good times are coming for the Knapdale Beavers, who have sculpted their permanent mark on the stunning ancient deciduous forest. They will become a protected species in May 2019, in a long awaited and controversial move. Much of this area though flanked on both sides by huge areas of privately owned land is in the […]
It’s better this way……….
The purposefully timed departure from the Labour party of several Blairite members has drawn myriad responses from rank and file members and the press over recent weeks. The latter have in the main hailed the possibilities of what a new centrist, neoliberal party could bring to Uk politics. Guardian opinion pieces rejoiced in a moment […]
Have Counterfire a New Policy of Ignoring Racism?
Just had a look at this Counterfire thing which was handed to me by a young dude during the Anti-Tommy Robinson demo outside the BBC in Salford the other day. I kind of wish I could quote from it, skewer a few flaky chunks for inspection, but unfortunately I chucked it in the recycling shortly […]
The SNP and nuclear weapons
A reply to Rise founder, Jonathon Shafi. Last week political activist and co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign Jonathon Shafi tweeted that the SNP were preparing to sell out on nuclear weapons. This was based on the fact that the SNP’s Defence Spokesperson Stewart McDonald was – in Jonathan’s view – insufficiently vocal in opposing […]