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Holyrude Episode 4.7 – “Long Pork Kebab”
David McClemont (Twitter: @DavoMc82), Debra Torrance (@HeathPeaPict) and Kat Cary (@kat_cary) discuss the latest events in Scottish and UK politics NEWS – UK Supreme Court Says Scotland Needs Westminster’s Permission For Indyref2 – Tabloids Attack Trade Union Leader – Keir Starmer Named “Politician of the Year” by Right Wing Publication – Tory Peer on PPE […]
Holyrude Episode 4.6 – “My Milkshake Brings All The Fash To The Yard”
David McClemont (Twitter: @DavoMc82), Debra Torrance (@HeathPeaPict) and Cal Johnston-Dempsey (@caldemps) discuss the latest events in Scottish and UK politics NEWS – Eton Pupils Abuse State School Pupils At Farage Speech – Chancellor Delivers Autumn Statement – Stephen Fry Claims Neutrality In Transphobia Debate – Labour Claim They Will Abolish The House of Lords Music […]
The War on Being Trans Must Stop!
by Amber Roberts Gender Critics believe that Trans Women aren’t Women as strongly as we believe that Trans Women Are Women, no matter what anyone tells them to the contrary. On both sides of this we have people making threats, shouting abuse and being hateful in general. This behaviour needs to stop on both sides, […]
Death Match by Sam Hamad
If you are melting down over the World Cup in Qatar; ask yourself why you didn’t have a similar meltdown over the one in Russia in 2018? Be honest about it. At that point in the world, despite Russia genocidally ravaging Syria, annexing and waging war against Ukraine and overseeing the fatal persecution of homosexuals […]
Holyrude – Season 4 – Ep 5 – Politics of the jungle.
Holyrude pod talks with Talking Sense’s Kat Cary – co-convenor of SNP Socialists on; tiredness, Keir Starmer on mums.net, Larkhall, Mat Hancock on I’m a Celeb’ and of course Scottish politics. Kat asks in the pod for people with experience of living as a trans person in Scotland to submit a 3 to 5 minute […]
The War in Black and White by Val Waldron
I thought that wars were fought in black and white. That soldiers, sailors, airmen soared into victorious flight or landed on beaches handsome, intact and survived to marry a virgin sweetheart Who knew how many lived and died waist high in blood, shit and mud, snatched moments of battle-weary sleep beside friends, sometimes just […]
Holyrude Episode 4.4 – “Xtra Long Yin”
David McClemont (Twitter: @DavoMc82), Debra Torrance (@HeathPeaPict) and Beth Douglas (@pickle_bee) discuss the latest events in Scottish and UK politics NEWS – Sunak Unveils New Cabinet – Gender Recognition Act Passes First Parliamentary Vote – Diphtheria Outbreak at Asylum Processing Centre – Just Stop Oil Protests Music by @HippyMuzic Art by @HeathPeaPict Edited by @HeathPeaPict
Disability and the Left By Stephanie Melnick
To win disabled people over, the left needs to change the rhetoric. We cannot mirror the Right’s idea of “useless eaters”. If we truly want to create a better future, we need to find a way to make a world where everyone can live happily – including those who cannot work. A few weeks ago, […]
What is the answer to Tory Turmoil Groundhog Day?
Mhairi Hunter: Ungagged asked me to write a wee piece about the current political situation. Where do you even start?









