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The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson

DC Thomson

Show • 177 episodes

Insight and analysis with a Scottish focus from political commentators from The Courier, The Press & Journal, the Evening Telegraph and the Evening Express.

Aberdeen asylum controversy, and Kevin Stewart MSP interviewEpisode • Sep 17

The battle for energy, and flags, as everyone comes to AberdeenEpisode • Sep 10

Back to school in election yearEpisode • Sep 3

Married couple’s Aberdeenshire election bidEpisode • Jun 25

Dundee debt-busting scheme tries to tackle povertyEpisode • Jun 18

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay interviewEpisode • Jun 11

Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer in ScotlandEpisode • Jun 4

St Andrews University, Israel and GazaEpisode • May 28

Reform defections and the future of collegesEpisode • May 21

Raac and ruinEpisode • May 14

Leading doctor on Scotland's fragile NHSEpisode • May 7

Union chief Roz Foyer interviewEpisode • Apr 30

Supreme Court 'biological women' fall-outEpisode • Apr 23

Strikes at Robert Gordon University, John Swinney's reset and MSPs deal with 'burn-out'Episode • Apr 16

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey interviewEpisode • Apr 9

New Dundee University rector interviewEpisode • Apr 2

Assisted dying interviewEpisode • Mar 26

Dundee University finance scandal deepensEpisode • Mar 20

Dundee University jobs crisisEpisode • Mar 12

An eye-opening trip to UkraineEpisode • Mar 5

John Swinney interviewEpisode • Feb 26

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar interviewEpisode • Feb 20

Scotland Office minister on energy jobs promisesEpisode • Feb 5

Justice for tragic Elgin bus driver Keith Rollinson, another NHS reset and a complex NHS Fife trans doctor tribunalEpisode • Jan 29

Who’s securing Scotland’s sea borders?Episode • Jan 22

Maybe the public don't like honesty after allEpisode • Jan 15

What’s coming up in 2025?Episode • Jan 8

2024 Politics QuizEpisode • Dec 18, 2024

University crisis and featured interview on cancer surgeryEpisode • Dec 11, 2024

Skye shooting gun control, ferry to Europe, and NHS crisisEpisode • Dec 4, 2024

Dundee and Angus College plans - and the university funding crisisEpisode • Nov 27, 2024

SNP justice secretary on prisoner releaseEpisode • Nov 20, 2024

SNP election drama and oil in the dockEpisode • Nov 13, 2024

Andrew Bowie interview, Donald Trump, and Holyrood comes to AberdeenEpisode • Nov 6, 2024

Human cost of budget cutsEpisode • Oct 30, 2024

Alex Salmond rememberedEpisode • Oct 16, 2024

Labour's Dundee hangover, Grampian breast cancer wait anger, and MP's Russia warningsEpisode • Oct 9, 2024

Nairn banker murder hits HolyroodEpisode • Oct 2, 2024

Scots aid worker Linda Norgrove's Afghan legacyEpisode • Sep 25, 2024

Scottish referendum 10 years on, with Yes Scotland chief Blair JenkinsEpisode • Sep 18, 2024

Scottish referendum 10 years on, with Better Together chief Blair McDougallEpisode • Sep 18, 2024

How Perth prison scheme aims to cut reoffending and ease prison overcrowdingEpisode • Sep 11, 2024

All change, no cashEpisode • Sep 4, 2024

What next for the SNP and Tories, and what's it like to be an MP?Episode • Jul 10, 2024

Polls and postal vote scandalEpisode • Jul 3, 2024

Rishi returns as Tories braceEpisode • Jun 26, 2024

Election latest, and an Aberdeenshire shockEpisode • Jun 19, 2024

Douglas Ross and the Tory turmoilEpisode • Jun 12, 2024

John Swinney interview specialEpisode • Jun 5, 2024

General election fever, week 1Episode • May 29, 2024

Why Scotland's doctors are worried about Physician AssociatesEpisode • May 22, 2024

Scotland's new drug addiction recovery plan exploredEpisode • May 15, 2024

We search for words of wisdom as John Swinney becomes First MinisterEpisode • May 8, 2024

Humza Yousaf quits - what next for the SNP?Episode • May 1, 2024

Alistair Greig’s £13m Ponzi fraudEpisode • Apr 24, 2024

Is Labour ready for power?Episode • Apr 17, 2024

Scotland's trade unions chief on hopes for a Labour government, equal pay and the future for oil and gasEpisode • Apr 10, 2024

Recess rewind: Hate crime, budget cuts and election feverEpisode • Apr 3, 2024

Assisted Dying: Scotland prepares for third attempt at law changeEpisode • Mar 27, 2024

Fornethy House abuse survivors on their fight for justiceEpisode • Mar 20, 2024

Alex Cole-Hamilton interview specialEpisode • Mar 13, 2024

Budget blues and climate crisisEpisode • Mar 6, 2024

Michael Gove interview as Tories meet in AberdeenEpisode • Feb 28, 2024

Liz Lloyd and Alan Roden reflect on Scottish Labour conferenceEpisode • Feb 19, 2024

Interview special with Scottish Labour leader Anas SarwarEpisode • Feb 14, 2024

Yes City revisitedEpisode • Feb 7, 2024

Jason Leitch, Eljamel and budget woesEpisode • Jan 31, 2024

Covid bereaved lawyer Aamer Anwar on 'shattered trust'Episode • Jan 24, 2024

Lift-off for Shetland spaceportEpisode • Jan 17, 2024

Post Office interview special episodeEpisode • Jan 10, 2024

The 2023 Stooshie politics quizEpisode • Dec 20, 2023

Labour’s satanic panic in GlenrothesEpisode • Dec 13, 2023

Stephen Flynn interview on his first year as SNP Westminster leaderEpisode • Dec 6, 2023

Time for Suzanne’s LawEpisode • Nov 29, 2023

Labour in a tangle over Gaza ceasefire callEpisode • Nov 22, 2023

Tories reshuffle back in timeEpisode • Nov 15, 2023

SNP challenger Stephen Gethins on ”unfinished business”Episode • Nov 8, 2023

Alex Salmond and Ash Regan on Alba’s futureEpisode • Nov 1, 2023

After the stormEpisode • Oct 25, 2023

SNP Conference SpecialEpisode • Oct 16, 2023

MP Pete Wishart on independence, Alba and a Rutherglen ’gubbing’Episode • Oct 11, 2023

Rutherglen byelection specialEpisode • Oct 6, 2023

Rosebank oil and Tory backlashEpisode • Sep 27, 2023

Kate Forbes and Meghan Gallacher on birth, maternity and better support for familiesEpisode • Sep 20, 2023

Aye/No, what you did last summerEpisode • Sep 13, 2023

Eljamel inquiry victoryEpisode • Sep 8, 2023

Stooshie summer quizEpisode • Jun 30, 2023

SNP ’independence convention’ in DundeeEpisode • Jun 23, 2023

Eljamel surgery inquiry, fishing ban campaign, and the end of BorisEpisode • Jun 16, 2023

Succession: How the SNP and Labour are shaping up for the futureEpisode • Jun 9, 2023

Interview special: Sister of murdered man Alan Geddes on justice reformEpisode • Jun 2, 2023

Police Scotland ’institutional racism’ bombshellEpisode • May 30, 2023

20-minute neighbourhoods and polarised politicsEpisode • May 19, 2023

10 years waiting for surgery; interview on NHS pressure and analysis on latest pollsEpisode • May 12, 2023

Coronation interview special: Kings, queens...and EurovisionEpisode • May 5, 2023

Douglas Ross interview specialEpisode • Apr 28, 2023

Will fishing ban save seas or ruin communities?Episode • Apr 21, 2023

SNP leadership contest quizEpisode • Mar 31, 2023

SNP leader election special: Humza Yousaf wins - what now?Episode • Mar 27, 2023

Former SNP aide on ’cautious’ Nicola Sturgeon, Green problems and how to bring the party together againEpisode • Mar 24, 2023

Budgets, Brexit, blunders and ballotsEpisode • Mar 17, 2023

Kate Forbes on faith and the tough decisions aheadEpisode • Mar 14, 2023

Humza Yousaf on family, racism and the NHSEpisode • Mar 14, 2023

Ash Regan on independenceEpisode • Mar 14, 2023

Nicola Sturgeon takes SNP flak and Lib Dems meet in DundeeEpisode • Mar 10, 2023

Big noise over big budget cuts, and SNP leader latestEpisode • Mar 3, 2023

SNP leadership contest latest, and we hear from Humza Yousaf’s local votersEpisode • Feb 24, 2023

Stooshie Special: Labour Party ConferenceEpisode • Feb 17, 2023

Stooshie special: Nicola Sturgeon resigns as First MinisterEpisode • Feb 15, 2023

’Bad law’ at HolyroodEpisode • Feb 10, 2023

Brexit three years onEpisode • Feb 3, 2023

What is happening to the NHS?Episode • Jan 27, 2023

Life after oil and gas?Episode • Jan 20, 2023

US pastor in Aberdeen on Trump’s ’dangerous’ legacyEpisode • Jan 13, 2023

End of year politics quiz!Episode • Dec 16, 2022

Gordon Brown is back to reform the UK but are voters listening?Episode • Dec 9, 2022

NHS Tayside cancer scandal specialEpisode • Dec 2, 2022

Independence referendum interview specialEpisode • Nov 25, 2022

Eljamel campaignersEpisode • Nov 18, 2022

Week 45: Stooshie - Climate changeEpisode • Nov 11, 2022

Week 44: Stooshie - energy, skills and jobs specialEpisode • Nov 4, 2022

Week 43: Play along with our ’Quiz Truss’ game as we assess the change at the topEpisode • Oct 28, 2022

Week 42: A bonus episode on how political events impact the cost of the livingEpisode • Oct 21, 2022

Stooshie Special: Liz Truss resignsEpisode • Oct 20, 2022

Week 41: Green conference specialEpisode • Oct 14, 2022

Week 40: SNP conference specialEpisode • Oct 7, 2022

Week 39: Time to send back the money? North-east ‘slave’ fund interview specialEpisode • Sep 30, 2022

Week 38: Who’s looking after the carers?Episode • Sep 23, 2022

Week 37: King, country and cold comfortEpisode • Sep 16, 2022

Special edition: Boris Johnson resigns… now what?Episode • Jul 8, 2022

Week 26: Tornado crash special, as Holyrood goes on summer holidayEpisode • Jul 1, 2022

Week 25: Maternity care special episodeEpisode • Jun 24, 2022

Week 24, 2022: IndyRef, freedom of speech and a tale of two ferriesEpisode • Jun 17, 2022

Week 23, 2022: Drug addiction specialEpisode • Jun 10, 2022

Week 22, 2022: Focus on autism in educationEpisode • Jun 3, 2022

Week 21, 2022: Has Boris Johnson ‘got away with it’?Episode • May 27, 2022

Week 20, 2022: Planes, trains and tax appealsEpisode • May 20, 2022

Week 19, 2022: Alison Johnstone on a year in HolyroodEpisode • May 13, 2022

Stooshie special: Aberdeen election debateEpisode • May 3, 2022

Stooshie special: Fife election debateEpisode • May 1, 2022

Stooshie special: Perth and Kinross election debateEpisode • Apr 30, 2022

Stooshie special: Angus election debateEpisode • Apr 29, 2022

Stooshie special: Dundee election debateEpisode • Apr 28, 2022

Week 16, 2022: Boris Johnson on the move and under fireEpisode • Apr 22, 2022

Week 15, 2022: 1,000 days of Boris JohnsonEpisode • Apr 15, 2022

Week 14, 2022: Lifting the lid on an energy problemEpisode • Apr 8, 2022

Week 13, 2022: I wanna be elected (already)Episode • Apr 1, 2022

Week 12, 2022: The big budget unveiledEpisode • Mar 25, 2022

Week 11, 2022: Scottish Conservative conference specialEpisode • Mar 18, 2022

Week 10, 2022: U-turn if you want to...Episode • Mar 11, 2022

Week 9, 2022: Anas Sarwar interview specialEpisode • Mar 3, 2022

Week 8, 2022: War comes to EuropeEpisode • Feb 25, 2022

Special edition: Should young people stand for election?Episode • Feb 22, 2022

Week 7, 2022: Too young to stand for election?Episode • Feb 18, 2022

Week 6, 2022: Show me the moneyEpisode • Feb 11, 2022

Week 5, 2022: It’s oil right now, in fact it’s a gas.Episode • Feb 4, 2022

Week 4, 2022: How Boris Johnson is shaping the Scottish independence debateEpisode • Jan 28, 2022

Week 3, 2022: In the name of God, goEpisode • Jan 21, 2022

Week 2, 2022: Let’s face the music and danceEpisode • Jan 14, 2022

Special edition: 🎄The Stooshie Christmas Quiz 2021Episode • Dec 17, 2021

Week 49, 2021: It’s my party and I’ll deny if I want toEpisode • Dec 10, 2021

Week 48, 2021: Top TrumpsEpisode • Dec 3, 2021

Week 47, 2021: All the President’s MenieEpisode • Nov 26, 2021

Week 46, 2021: Glass half-recycledEpisode • Nov 19, 2021

Week 45, 2021: The Golden Age of SleazeEpisode • Nov 12, 2021

Week 44, 2021: Boris Johnson’s Owen goal, as COP26 heads to extra timeEpisode • Nov 5, 2021

Week 43, 2021: We’re gonna rock down to, electric avenue (if we can find a charger)Episode • Oct 29, 2021

Week 42, 2021: Calling time on a poisonous political toneEpisode • Oct 22, 2021

Week 41, 2021: The line must be drawn here!Episode • Oct 15, 2021

Week 40, 2021: Lords a leapingEpisode • Oct 8, 2021

Week 39, 2021: Gimmie Fuel, Gimmie Ire, Gimmie Labour’s latest mireEpisode • Oct 1, 2021

Week 38, 2021: Ambulance crews and vaccine passport bluesEpisode • Sep 24, 2021

Week 37, 2021: Blue light emergency, while Greens see red over roadsEpisode • Sep 17, 2021

Week 36, 2021: Read it and weep?Episode • Sep 10, 2021

Week 35, 2021: Parliament‘s cold open, plus author of new book on Salmond/Sturgeon splitEpisode • Sep 3, 2021

Week 34, 2021: Case by caseEpisode • Aug 27, 2021

Week 33, 2021: Neo-Nazis, Afghanistan and the art of the Holyrood dealEpisode • Aug 20, 2021

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