The only podcast you need to keep your finger on the pulse of Scottish politics. Each episode, as well as an in-depth interview and top national and international politics headlines, political journalists from The Press & Journal, The Courier, Evening Express and Evening Telegraph discuss and explain the week’s biggest stories from Holyrood, Westminster and beyond. Be Better Briefed, with The Stooshie.
The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson
Insight and analysis with a Scottish focus from political commentators from The Courier, The Press & Journal, the Evening Telegraph and the Evening Express.
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Episodes
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
It’s the week in which Boris Johnson left for India and got slammed in the Commons over partygate. Douglas Ross meanwhile denied he’s been rendered ‘pathetic’ for his U-turn on the PM. Nicola Sturgeon’s mask slip put her under scrutiny again. And we started filming our own council debates, letting you put questions to leaders.
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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
It’s the week in which Boris Johnson approached 1,000 days in the job as prime minister. The occasion was marked with police fines all round for Mr Johnson, his wife Carrie and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak for breaking lockdown rules. Somehow though it was Douglas Ross who seemed to come off worst as he refused to call for the prime minister to quit... again. Oh, and the election campaign was just getting started.
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Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
It’s the week in which the UK energy strategy proclaimed nuclear is ‘coming home’, but the SNP locked the door to Scotland. The shift from oil and gas to renewable was scrutinised by SNP MSP Gillian Martin, whose regional survey threw up local anxiety. Polling showed the SNP are on track for a good council election, and Scotland swished its kilt on Tartan Day in the US and Canada.
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
It’s the week in which 18 councillors got elected before a vote was even cast, raising serious questions about local democracy. Ferries are still delayed, campaigners are still pinning down a date for services to resume at a downgraded maternity unit, Scotland’s plan to ease reliance on oil was delayed, and we moved further out of Covid restrictions.
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Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
It’s the week in which the chancellor said he’s saving loadsa money from our personal finances. But was it just a drop in an ocean of household debt? The Scottish Government were on the receiving end of a scathing report about efforts to build just two ferries, adding yet more criticism to their handling of big projects. And another council candidate’s social media history comes back to haunt them in a shocking way.
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Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
It’s the week in which Boris Johnson comes to Aberdeen, but Douglas Ross loses his voice. We look at the bigger picture facing a Tory party trying to show unity while papering over some big divides. Scotland’s Covid rules are changing, but is everyone happy at the speed Nicola Sturgeon’s moving? And bigotry raises its ugly head as public figures are caught up in claims of anti-Scottish sentiment, Anglophobia and racism.
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Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
It’s the week in which Douglas Ross decided ‘now is not the time’ to fire prime minister Boris Johnson, despite saying he stands by what he said over the ‘partygate’ scandal. Labour finished off their first in-person conference, as Tories prepare for theirs, with Mr Johnson now in line for an appearance in Aberdeen.
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Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Courier editor David Clegg talks to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar on the eve of the party’s conference in Glasgow. The MSP sets his sights high one year in to the job with a prediction on the next Holyrood election, he outlines where he needs to do better, and reflects on a personal experience of racism in Scotland.
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Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Covid rules are being lifted as Scotland heads to a ‘new normal’, but events from beyond the borders dominated a dark week for international politics. Putin ordered a brutal invasion of Ukraine, bringing war to Europe once again. Meanwhile, Alex Salmond ‘suspended’ his Russia Today show after a furious backlash.
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Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
We take a deeper look at the row over young people in politics in this mid-week special, with the extended interviews from the episode that aired on Friday. We hear from Emma Roddick, Scotland's youngest active MSP, as she reveals how was belittled by fellow politicians for being a young, disabled woman.
Plus we hear about the exodus of political talent facing local authorities if they fail to make council business more accessible to working-age people, and analyse the barriers stopping younger activists from running for public office.
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