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Voting Labour? Please read…

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 […]

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Five Election Voices

Voice 1: ​Richie Venton, representing the Scottish Socialist Party, delivers a passionate call to action for the upcoming elections. He urges voters to choose the SSP on the list vote (the peach-colored form) to elect a team of “socialist fighters” dedicated to representing the millions, not the millionaires.   Voice 2: Maggie Chapman emphasizes that […]

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Socialism on Trial: A Masterclass in Revolution

​a book review by Jock Mulligan. Éist now, for at the time of writing I’ve been sat here in the house with the rain lashing against the busted double glazing and the wind howling like a banshee. In the boredom of the dreadful spring weather, I smaoinigh-ed on what was happening in America as the […]

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A Warning From the Past: They are Liars.

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 […]

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The Shattered Dream of a ‘British’ Left: Why Scotland Refused to be a Branch Office

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 […]

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Sarwar: the Millionaire Charade

Sarwar’s Dodgy Deal By our Political Correspondent. The Scottish Leaders’ Debate on April 14, 2026, was no theatre of ideas. It was a political necropsy performed in real-time under the cold glare of the studio lights. Amidst the usual tawdry point-scoring and the SNP’s increasingly desperate defensive crouch, a single, radioactive allegation from Malcolm Offord […]

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For me… A clear winner…

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 […]

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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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Glasgow Union Street Fire: “Being Less Bad Than England” Not Enough….

By Ungagged’s Political Correspondent. Standing on the corner of Union Street in Glasgow today, you are  greeted by the acrid, lingering scent of scorched timber and the sight of a hollowed-out, once beautiful Victorian landmark. The fire that tore through that building on Sunday, 8 March 2026, just a stone’s throw from the teeming platforms […]

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Neil Anderson interviews… Ungagged! – Cllr Graham Campbell – Glasgow City Council – The Budget Plus

Neil speaks to Cllr Graham Campbell a long time contributor to Ungagged, talk about the budget just agreed at Glasgow City Council where he is an SNP Councillor, plus the upcoming Holyrood elections and it’s projected party balance. Producer & Sound Editor – Neil Anderson   Ungagged is Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. Campaigns. […]