Wee Ginger Dug

WeeGingerDug · Dugcast 9 10 2020 With Elaine C Smith This week I’m delighted to be joined by one of Scotland’s best known actors and a stalwart of the independence...

Yesterday on this blog I wrote about the way in which the Conservatives in Westminster systematically sideline and marginalise the devolved administrations. This isn’t just because the Tories hate Thatessempee...

When a bad thing happens once, it can be considered accidental. When it happens twice, that’s deeply unfortunate and a sign that someone isn’t paying attention. When it happens a...

Back in the distant days of early 2016, there was no real prospect of another independence referendum any time soon. Indeed there was no prospect of one any time within...

On Friday evening on BBC Reporting Scotland there was a sly wee piece which attempted to normalise the idea that people born in Scotland who live elsewhere in the UK...

There’s no podcast today because I got mixed up about dates and thought that last night I was supposed to be doing a Zoom conference with a local SNP group...

The UK Government continues its descent into pariah-hood. Today it was announced that the EU is to take legal action against the British Government over the latter’s decision that international...

Yesterday the House of Commons voted by 340 to 256 in favour of the Conservative government’s Internal Market Bill, which undermines the devolution settlement and threatens international law. No Scottish...

If you really believe that the biggest enemy of the independence cause is the SNP leadership and a substantial chunk of the party, if you really believe that the only...

It’s a significant week for the independence movement, although you wouldn’t know that judging by our overwhelmingly anti-independence media. In Scotland the job of most of the media is not...