The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson

Week 43, 2021: We’re gonna rock down to, electric avenue (if we can find a charger)

It’s the week in which Rishi Sunak told us how much he planned to tax and spend, planes got a duty break and our intrepid environment team set-out to see if Scotland is good for EVs.
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Week 42, 2021: Calling time on a poisonous political tone

It’s the week in which the UK was forced to reflect on the killing of Sir David Amess and come to terms with the increasingly poisonous tone of debate online and in real life. Meanwhile, Conservatives were embarrassed in the north-east as a carbon capture project heads south. And the SNP faced questions from both sides of the constitutional debate on how Scotland can realistically get a second independence referendum.
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Week 41, 2021: The line must be drawn here!

It’s the week in which politicians got mixed up in covid vaccine passport gobbledegook, our Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister got into a wrangle over a mansion, and Moray was wiped from the Westminster map.
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Week 40, 2021: Lords a leaping

It’s the week in which Boris Johnson rounded off his conference, but was there enough substance with the style? Reporter Rachel Amery speaks to Baroness Annabelle Goldie at the RAF base in Leuchars about the universal credit cut and whether the Army is best deployed driving ambulances and HGVs. Baroness Goldie is also questioned on the role of unelected peers in government.
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Week 39, 2021: Gimmie Fuel, Gimmie Ire, Gimmie Labour’s latest mire

It’s the week in which we all tried to buy petrol but couldn’t, as the Army is once again called in to help the government out of another delivery mess. We also talk about the vaccine passport roll-out, Labour’s brief mention of Scotland and chat with our award winning data editor Lesley-Anne Kelly about the role of data journalism in a post-truth world. 
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Week 38, 2021: Ambulance crews and vaccine passport blues

It’s the week in which Scotland moved away from prosecuting possession of Class A drugs, Humza Yousaf was called to answer for his job over the ambulance and NHS waiting times crisis, and we learned your local pub might actually be a bouncing nightclub. 
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Week 37, 2021: Blue light emergency, while Greens see red over roads

It’s the week in which Nicola Sturgeon called in the Army to help the stretched ambulance service cope with demand. Boris Johnson rearranged his cabinet and the impact of the SNP’s deal with the Greens started to hit home. 
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Week 36, 2021: Read it and weep?

It’s the week in which Holyrood heard the SNP-Green programme for government, and opposition parties were less than impressed. We take a look at the highs and lows, and get to grips with Scotland’s new covid passport scheme. 
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Week 35, 2021: Parliament‘s cold open, plus author of new book on Salmond/Sturgeon split

It’s the week in which we publish our 100th show, the Scottish Parliament got back down to business, and Courier editor David Clegg shares the best bits of his new book on just what went down between Salmond and Sturgeon. 
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Week 34, 2021: Case by case

It’s the week in which the fall-out over the SNP-Green deal at Holyrood started to show, while the country recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic started. Plus, we talk to the new leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. 
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