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By Jock Mulligan. A Prince has fallen and the name of a PM caught in a threesome with Epstein and Maxwell has been redacted. It tip of an iceberg of a scandal… In comparison, another child rape scandal is rarely spoken about. Its only nine years since the business of Sir Edward Heath and the […]
By Gael The air in our communities is thick with a justifiable, burning anger. After decades of a Westminster-driven economic squeeze, people are searching for a way to strike back at a system that treats them like an afterthought. Into this landscape of genuine hardship step the charlatans of Reform UK, led by Richard Tice […]
Jock Mulligan on Mandelson. The long and the winding road of Peter Mandelson’s political career has reached a bitter and a shameful end. At fughing last. For a man who twice walked away from the high table with the whiff of the backstairs deal hanging about him, these new tales from the Epstein papers have […]
I’ve sat in draughty community halls from Easterhouse to Maryhill for thirty years, and I’ve seen some shit in my time. I’ve seen the “vanguard” cults try to hijack local strikes and the middle-class “missionaries” come into our schemes to lecture us on solidarity before jumping into a taxi back to their Bearsden bungalows and […]
By Indybag. So, the dust has settled on the Bearsden South by-election, and we’ve got the usual suspects patting themselves on the back while the rest of us stare at the numbers wondering how much longer the status quo can hold. Bearsden reform disaster The Liberal Democrats took it at Stage 5, which isn’t exactly […]
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; Trump 2.0 (Davos, Dementia, Greenland, NATO Allies, Mark Carney, ICE), Keir Starmer, Anas Sarwar, Andy Burham. Plus the May elections including Your Party prospects. Recorded on Friday 23rd January 26. Producer & Editor – Neil Anderson Music: Roy Möller Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. […]
Let’s be straight with each other—the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a bad actor. For decades, they’ve trailed around like the self-appointed high priests of the working class, but if you look at the wreckage they’ve left behind, especially here in Scotland, it’s clear their only real loyalty is to the survival of their own […]
The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell discuss; Trump, the changing World, SNP Leader’s (John Swinney) Speech & the anniversary of the Brexit vote. Music: Roy Möller Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. Campaigns. Please join us- help us create a new, fair media- https://ko-fi.com/ungagged Where to find Left Ungagged… Website Twitter (X) […]
Manufacturing emotion and stealing stability. The Digital Factory of Despair – How They Farm Your Outrage By Gael There is a particular kind of cruelty in the way the modern world tries to steal your soul. We used to talk about the factory floor and the picket line; today, the factory is in your pocket, […]
To read the initial critique of Scottish pro-Palestinian activism that Kevin McKenna has had published in an increasingly desperate Glasgow Herald, is to encounter a portrait sketched in stark caricature: a world where political dissent is merely the affectation of the wealthy, and solidarity a “Brucie Bonus” for the bored bourgeoisie. Yet, history – and […]