The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson

Week 27, 2020: No border between 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Boris Johnson says

It’s the week in which the Prime Minister said there was no border between Scotland and England, in which employers were told to look for signs of domestic abuse as workers begin to return from furlough, and in which we report on the plight of migrant fishermen trapped in Scottish ports. We’ve also got the story of someone suffering significant health effects from Covid-19, even after 100 days, and much more.
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Week 26, 2020: Starmer exerts authority, and fears of a second wave of coronavirus

It’s the week in which the political news seemed to come from a bygone age, with a Labour MP sacked amid allegations of anti-Semitism, and with allegations of cronyism among the Conservatives. Is this what people mean when they talk about getting back to normal? But Covid-19 is never far away, as we also discuss how other countries are dealing with resurgences in the virus following various lockdown easings. Join journalists from across the DC Thomson Media folio of newspapers, and from their homes all across the country, to help you understand how Scotland, the UK and the world is fighting coronavirus.
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Week 25, 2020: Phase 2 – bad news for beer lovers, but good news for, well, lovers

It’s the week in which Scotland moved into Phase 2 of its lockdown easing protocol, though with some slight adjustments to what we had expected. Find out what the new changes are, and get the latest on school reopening, stats, and Brexit, plus, at no extra cost, a reference to Austin Powers.
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Week 24, 2020: What’s in a metre?

It’s the week in which there was a difference of opinion between the WHO and Scottish government about the relaxing of the 2m social distancing rule to 1m. Balancing public safety against mitigating the economic disaster of the coronavirus crisis is as much a political decision as a scientific one, and as Scottish tourism and hospitality businesses are advised to target a July 15 reopening date, the team grapple with the factors behind that decision on this week’s episode.
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Week 23, 2020: Lockdown easing, and the world’s poshest Ikea

It’s the week in which we’ve begin to enjoy some easing of lockdown restrictions, in which we’ve seen both cause for concern and optimism in economics and health, and in which some – and only some – MPs helped turn Parliament into the world’s poshest Ikea.
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Special edition: Kezia Dugdale on being sued for defamation – and why her case matters for the freedom of the press

In a special edition of The Stooshie, David Clegg talks to Kezia Dugdale, who recently won a case which was significant not only because it was the first of its kind to be held virtually, but far more importantly because it has serious repercussions for the freedom of the press. Listen to hear Kezia tell her story in an honest and powerful way – only on The Stooshie.
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Special edition: A New Normal

Nothing right now is normal. Our everyday lives have been turned upside down and inside out in the name of keeping the worst ravages of coronavirus at bay. 
There are hopeful signs that some of the most onerous restrictions to our usual activity will be lifted as we start to reap the benefits of our collective discipline. But even as we begin to ease back into the world as we knew it, there are more and more signs that things will never be quite the same again. 
The lockdown has allowed us a glimpse into different futures; acted as an unintended experiment into how things might work if we behaved differently. 
For the last few weeks, journalists across the DC Thomson Media family of newspapers have been talking to experts to gauge what the post-Covid-19 future might look like. You can – and should – read all their essays at pressandjournal.co.uk/a-new-normal or at thecourier.co.uk/a-new-normal – but in this special edition podcast episode, we bring them together to share highlights from their investigations and bring these stories vividly to life. Join us, as we consider whether Covid-19 will usher in a “New Normal”. 
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Week 21, 2020: Scottish lockdown exit strategy, and the branding of colleagues working from home as lazy by one MP

It’s the week in which the Scottish government formally laid out its plans and tests for a phased lifting of the lockdown restrictions. We discuss these proposals, how they’ve been received outside Scotland, and swiftly apologise for making a diet version of the gaffe a Conservative MP tweeted regarding how hard people working from home have, in fact, been working.
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Week 20, 2020: ‘Tetchy’ Brexit negotiations, as the June 30 deadline looms

Who’d have ever thought talking about Brexit would be a welcome distraction? In the week that a source described negotiations to us as ‘tetchy’, it looks like that ever-present prospect of a no-deal just edged a little closer. Elsewhere on the podcast, our political journalists discuss the latest on coronavirus, and what the weeks and months ahead hold.
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Week 19, 2020: Thinking about a post-lockdown future for Scotland – but there are mixed messages from our governments

It’s the week in which the advice from the UK and Scottish governments appeared to diverge about when we can start easing the restrictions designed to slow the spread of coronavirus, but at least in Scotland we have some clarity about what the exit from lockdown might look like. This, plus lots of crunchy chat about what the data tells us – even if it’s sometimes porkie pies – and why we need more of it, and what the team are missing most from the before times. Join journalists from across the DC Thomson Media folio of newspapers, and from their homes all across the country, to help you understand how Scotland, the UK and the world is fighting coronavirus. 
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