New episode alert!
SNP Westminster boss Stephen Flynn joins The Stooshie for a featured interview on his rollercoaster first year in the job.
The Aberdeen South politician reflects on everything from replacing Ian Blackford in the post to being named the UK’s ‘hardest’ MP.
He responds to the polls, to SNP splits and scandals, and speculates on his next move.
Could he end up in Holyrood one day? Maybe with an eye on the leader job there?
Listen to the full interview on The Stooshie today - https://ow.ly/7q1e50QfXUf
It's time to #BeBetterBriefed! ⚠️
Brexit is three! Is this time to celebrate or commiserate?
An Aberdeenshire fishing industry figure says the 'poster boys' have been let down.
Plus, we discuss economic pressures on local health boards.
Tune in now: ow.ly/ui1c50MJgBF
🚨 New episode now live!
This week, we take a look at NHS Tayside where proposals emerged to cut back beds to save cash.
Plus, Labour's Michael Marra talks to us about the political pressure on Nicola Sturgeon.
Listen now and #BeBetterBriefed: http://ow.ly/MC4n50MC8ms
New episode alert 🚨
This week we speak to Guy Ingerson, an ex-oil and gas worker who went green.
He questions the view that Aberdeen and the north-east really wants to cling onto oil and gas, and says that younger people are crying out for change.
We also catch up with campaigners trying to save St Fittick's park near Torry from development as part of the shift to low-carbon industry.
Can you fix the world by destroying more countryside?
Plus, we discuss the controversial UK Government block to equally controversial gender reform laws in Scotland.
Tune in and #BeBetterBriefed:
The Stooshie: US pastor in Aberdeen on Trump’s ’dangerous’ legacy
New episode alert 🚨
We speak to Jared Stacy, an ex-US pastor who moved to Scotland to get away from Donald Trump's political climate.
Mr Stacy is now studying at Aberdeen university for a PhD on conspiracies linked to Trump and paranoia.
He describes the fall-out in the States, and the spread to Brazil.
Could it happen here?
We also discuss the announcement of freeports in Scotland, and what they might mean for communities and the economy.
And we take stock of the political stewardship of the NHS in Scotland.
Tune in now and #BeBetterBriefed 👇
http://ow.ly/9QQa50Mqr5a
🤔 Have you been paying attention?
Our resident quiz master takes the politics team on a trip down memory lane in a wrap of 2022.
From Covid rules in spring to elections and multiple prime ministers, it's been a rollercoaster year for Scottish politics.
Test your memory and see how you do 👇
Listen to the full episode here and Be Better Briefed:
http://ow.ly/4LcO50M5RGY
🔊 In this special edition of The Stooshie, we discuss the headlines from our exclusive NHS Tayside breast cancer investigation.
Our separate feature-length video documentary on the scandal, published on The Courier UK website, explores the lack of evidence around government claims women were put at increased risk of their cancer returning. We hear from patients and senior health professionals.
And we reveal how officials missed repeated warnings that botched reports risked collapsing a once highly-respected breast cancer department.
On The Stooshie, Andy Philip chats to Courier political editor Derek Healey to get the inside story, the growing calls for an inquiry and what it means for the SNP Government.
Listen here now: http://ow.ly/g6tg50LTJ3S
⛈ It's wet and wild across most of Scotland, so why not settle down with this week's episode of The Stooshie and a nice warm drink, and #bebetterbriefed.
🗣 This week, campaigner Jules Rose tells us how she won't stop pushing the government for an inquiry into the actions of disgraced Dundee surgeon Sam Eljamel. In stark terms, she tells how the doctor removed her tear gland instead of a brain tumour.
She likens her determination to that of the Hillsborough campaigners who refused to take no for an answer.
And she vows to keep knocking on Health Secretary Humza Yousaf's door.
🔴 We also discuss Jeremy Hunt's budget implications for ordinary households and look at the other top stories beyond the political bubble.
Live now right here: http://ow.ly/eNnw50LInfB
🚨 New episode out now! 🚨
We speak to Dundee university scientist Dr Simon Cook on the missed chances and any elusive gains as Nicola Sturgeon returns from COP27.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton delivers a 'fake news' warning about recycled green energy claims.
Our team of political reporters discuss the top stories including our alarming reports on the long-running historical child abuse inquiry and the struggle to house refugees.
#BeBetterBriefed and listen to The Stooshie here: http://ow.ly/tVQc50LB9SA
Deputy First Minister John Swinney chats to The Stooshie
🗣 NEW EPISODE: We speak with John Swinney MSP, the deputy first minister, on what to expect at this weekend's Scottish National Party (SNP) conference in Aberdeen.
Nicola Sturgeon will be in the north-east for the three-day conference, the first in-person gathering for the party since the pandemic.
The SNP agenda gets scrutinised in our wrap of the highlights, including upgrades to the A9 and rail network.
And we look back at the turmoil of the Conservative conference, which closed with shock polls and infighting.
#BeBetterBriefed and take a listen to our award winning offering here 🔽
https://podfollow.com/thestooshie/view
🚨 New episode klaxon: Historian David Alston speaks to Calum Ross about why he thinks a £1.8m fund was built off the backs of the historic slave trade should be returned.
🗣 The so-called Dick Bequest, which helps teachers in the north-east, “belongs in Jamaica”, he says in our featured interview.
Also this week:
👎 We take stock of Liz Truss's terrible week.
🌹 Labour have rocketed up in the polls, as we discuss implications for Scotland.
ℹ️ More including major job losses in Aberdeen and concerns about council funds in Tayside.
#BeBetterBriefed and take a listen to our award winning offering here 🔽
https://podfollow.com/thestooshie/view
The Stooshie was crowned Podcast of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards this week!
Make sure to tune into our new episode: https://podfollow.com/thestooshie/
This week:
Politics reporter Rachel Amery spoke to Wendy Chamberlain, MP for North East Fife about her proposals to improve carers' rights.
We also assess Prime Minister Liz Truss’s first acts in office as her new chancellor unpicks their own party’s finance and tax policies in the Commons.
Plus we discuss the growing concern over delays to major road improvements on the A9 and A96 where lives are being lost.
Today's half-hour episode will get you up to speed on the international political situation in Ukraine, plus we talk to Dave Doogan MP, recently returned from a visit there, about Russian money, Alex Salmond on RT, and more.
🎧 Listen, to #BeBetterBriefed: https://pod.fo/e/10ee01
Amongst much else, this week’s Stooshie goes deep on the topic of young people in politics – with important, articulate contributions from Emma Roddick MSP, Xander McDade and Lloyd Melville. You don’t want to miss this one.
🎧 Listen, to #BeBetterBriefed: https://pod.fo/e/10d007
A defection to The Labour Party. Accusations of blackmail. And still, at the heart of it all, those parties. But what does Conservatives Lord Ian Duncan think the real issue is?
🎧 Snippet below, and listen to the full episode at https://pod.fo/e/106699 or right here in Facebook to #BeBetterBriefed
❄️ It’s the most! P’litical time! Of the year! ❄️
The Stooshie Christmas Quiz is live now. Whoever wins, the truth wins. Which is just as well when you see the scoresheet…
🎧 Listen: https://pod.fo/e/ff80e
On this week’s Scottish politics podcast:
🚨 Army called in to support 999
🚪 The reshuffle
🛣 Maggie Chapman on infrastructure, anti-Semitism, and Scottish Green Party in government
📰 Plus the biggest national politics stories
🎧 #BeBetterBriefed: https://pod.fo/e/e82f0
New episode just dropped. 🎤
💔 Tension in the north-east between Greens and SNP
📈 Our Data Editor is back to talk soaring Covid stats
🙀 Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP calls the SNP ‘feart’ — and pledges hope for his party and the country
🎧 Listen, to #BeBetterBriefed: https://pod.fo/e/e31ac
No new Stooshie today, with the show on its summer holidays, but last week’s episode – on our unmasking of the senior Tory councillors behind some anti-SNP troll accounts – is proving popular; listen, if you haven’t already, to #BeBetterBriefed: https://pod.fo/e/d73c7
Anti-SNP troll accounts unmasked as senior Tory councillors
✨ Special episode ✨
Listen to hear how we unmasked two senior Tory councillors as the puppet-masters behind anti-SNP troll accounts, what happens next, and why what goes on in local government matters to all of us.
🎧 Listen: https://pod.fo/e/d73c7
