This piece originally appeared on Allan’s website 2016 has been some year so far. A year in which Scotland once again failed to qualify for an international football tournament and 2 months into the new qualifiers already look out of the next one. A year which every celebrity is wondering if they will […]
Writers
Peace Pipes vs Pepper Spray
So for a while now I’ve been watching events in Dakota unfold. Protests against a massive pipeline for crude oil to travel across the United States, Canada and First Peoples Nations. My brother had a girlfriend from Vancouver, she was from the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe and shared lots of great and wise stories with our family. […]
Drunk Uncle Trump
He rants and he raves And he waves his finger Just like your drunk uncle (Although he’s a better singer) He’d like to deport everyone And build a big wall He doesn’t see a single Problem with that at all He’ll try and grab your pussy With his tiny orange hands How is he close […]
Debra Torrance Art
The extremely talented Debra Torrance is the artist behind loads of the Ungagged site artwork: Including the majority of the artwork for Ungagged’s Activist Advent: Debra is pretty good at portraits of political figures too:
We’ve Never Had It So Good
Shit, my head is banging. I didn’t think I was that drunk last night, but I feel like someone has come in when I was asleep and replaced my tongue with a sock full of sand. I can’t even remember the election result, let alone getting home and going to bed. Maybe I fell […]
Finding God
You mean I never told you how I found God? What, never? You won’t believe me anyway. I mean, I wouldn’t. Oh you still want to know? Ok, here’s what happened. It was a few years back and I was on a road trip. Sheila had left me a couple months before and […]
Inside Your Mind
Inside your mind I want to wear your mind for a day, walk the world your different way. I want to feel sounds with your skin, to taste the colours and the noise , and the chaos all around, feel it knotting and winding inside, and overtaking all. Feel my tongue tie to my mouth, […]
Neil Scott Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Videodrome Looking Back Tracks of my years Bits of kids Club Trumpicana Tweet for a Fairer World! Sinéad O’Connor…My Danny Boy Why Tracey Ullman, Blackpool, and I ruined utopia Weesht for Indy – Not Being Wrong… Being Wrong 2: The Irrational in Politics…Who Makes the Tea? Downfall Redux […]
Videodrome
Lots of people are in to ‘Mindfulness.’ I don’t see it as a particularly bad thing at all. Yoga helped rid me of my aches and pains after all. Thinking about what I eat has changed my shape and given me energy- and my frazzled tastebuds back, so self help, in my opinion CAN help […]
The Tory Party Conference – It’s Aw Gone Wrang!
This is an unscheduled, bonus podcast, because here at Ungagged we couldn’t just let the vile rhetoric pumping out of the Tory party conference go unanswered or unchallenged. Featuring Matt Geraghty, Debra Torrance, Victoria Pearson, Eric Joyce, Steve McAuliffe, Amber Daniels and pulled together, as always by the inimitable Neil Scott. With music by Thee Faction with […]