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 […]
Writers
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 […]
Two Furra Pound
Over caffeinated conversation on IndependenceLive.net HERE (mentioned by Neil Scott and Chuck Hamilton on the podcast) Music by: Hand of Dog The Blackheart Orchestra The Unholy A-Men The Tuts Joe Solo Steve White and the Protest Family The Wakes The Hurriers The Cundeez
The Band is Back Thegither
The Band is Back Thegither! Music from The Hurriers, The Tuts, Stuart Macfarlane, Abel Ganz, blossoms and Louise Distras. Podcast features the views of Dr Bruce Scott, Matt Geraghty, Amber Daniels, Neil Scott, Allan Grogan, Debra Torrance and Red Raiph.
Allan Grogan
Allan Grogan was the founder and National Spokesperson of Labour for Independence – a pro independence organisation which campaigned from within the Labour Party from 2012-2014. A lifelong Labour supporter and member for over ten years. Allan left the party in September 2014 and joined the Scottish Socialist Party being elected to the National Executive […]
Debra Torrance
Debra Torrance is the youngest daughter of a bookkeeper and a butcher. A late baby, her parents were preparing to become Nanna and Pops not new a mum and dad again. Debra was brought up in the east end of Glasgow and moved around Scotland from the highlands to Fife before settling in Milngavie. She […]
Victoria Pearson
Victoria Pearson is a writer and mum of four who lives behind a keyboard in Bedfordshire, England. Having always wanted to be a writer, V started to think it was an achievable dream when she wrote and edited a feature for the Guardian when she was 17. Following that, she appeared live on the Richard […]
Neil Scott
Neil has been politically active all his adult life, and identified as “Socialist” after stealing a book on Marx from his (UK) state school library when he was 14. Hailing originally and loudly from County Down, he moved to Scotland in 1993 as a mature student after ten years of unsuccessfully working, mostly in pubs, […]
#Yes2, the International Butterflies and the Screams of the Traditional Media!
Yes2, the Internationalist Butterflies and the Screams of the Traditional Media! In this episode we have Neil Scott talking about the internationalist outlook of a new Independent Scotland, Ruth Hopkins on the plight of the Native American Water protectors in North Dakota and Amber Daniels on the Screams of the Traditional Media and Chuck Hamilton […]