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In 2014- THEY Lied. By Neil Scott A Facebook memory slid onto my timeline from April 2014. A headline before the Independence Referendum of September that year. A headline many of us seized on to show where Westminster had brought us to. It feels like a memory from a lost age, a time when we […]
The collapse of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Your Party’ in Scotland was perhaps as predictable as a North Sea haar, yet its demise offers a brutal autopsy of the perennial tensions between an 18th Century London-centric idealism and the reality of Scottish political autonomy. The recent mass resignation of the Scottish interim executive, spearheaded by figures like […]
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 […]
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, […]
Since the high point of 2014, the political landscape in Scotland has taken a fucking battering. We started as a grassroots, left-leaning movement for a better country, but a decade later we’re looking at a fragmented mess where some folk are more interested in reactionary “culture wars” than actually fixing the politucally created poverty our […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Indybag: The Myth of Left Unity: Why Toxic Gatekeepers are the Disease, Not the Cure The chatter is everywhere, even now, as the new “Your Party” conference dominates the headlines. For decades, every time the left has been smashed by the establishment, the same tired delusion resurfaces: “If only we could all just unite!” We’re […]