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Reform: The Tory B Team.

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 […]

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​A Radical Charity Model: Social Bite

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 […]

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The Gilded Lottery Lie: Farage’s Dodgy Energy Gimmick

Under the flickering neon of a digital age cost-of-living crisis, Nigel Farage emerged with the “Nigel Cut My Bills” campaign, a tawdry piece of political theatre designed to mask a brutal neoliberal agenda behind a mask of faux-charity. In a country where millions are shivering in damp flats, Reform UK offered the ultimate bread-and-circuses distraction: […]

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The Bad and The Ugly by Val Waldron

    It wasn’t quite the reaction I expected to my comment; So, Thatcher’s deid at last. The polite response that evening of 8th April 2013 could be summed up by a gently dismissive nod and patronising grimace. It told me what I already knew, that the death of this elderly person in the advanced […]

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’70’s Movie Warnings of a Dying Century

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 […]

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Tech Bro is Watching You

​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 […]

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Review: Everybody to Kenmure Street

By Val Waldron The gang were there, cheering on the big screen appearances of themselves and their pals. At the end a massive chant of Refugees are welcome here. I always thought applause in cinemas was a bit unnecessary, but it wasn’t, I did it, for them, the community activists. I played a bit-part that […]

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EIS Strike off. A Scottish Teacher Reacts.

“The news emerging today regarding the latest victory by Scotland’s largest and most formidable teaching union is a staggering testament to the power of collective action. It is a reminder of what happens when we refuse to be silenced and instead stand together as the singular, strongest voice for educators in Scotland. ​The headline is […]

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Gorton and Denton: Labour’s Strategy is political self destruction….

​by Peter McColl The old two-party system isn’t just broken; it is actively collapsing under the weight of its own cynical strategy. While the Tories are in a death spiral, Labour’s attempt to manipulate the political landscape by amplifying the far-right has spectacularly backfired, opening the door for a true progressive alternative. ​The Morgan McSweeney […]

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Neil Anderson interviews… Ungagged! – Cllr Jon Molyneux – Glasgow City Council – The Budget Plus

Neil speaks to Cllr Jon Molyneux of the Scottish Green Party mostly about the agreed SGP & SNP 2026/27 Glasgow City Council budget, plus Flamingo Land and the Holyrood Elections. Producer & Sound Editor – Neil Anderson   Ungagged is Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. Campaigns. Please join us- help us create a new, […]