What is Scotland? We search high and low for the answers as we discuss the state of Scottish Labour, the SNP, transphobia, our Socialist of the week, Mary Barbour, and discover that Ruth Davidson is still somehow leader of the Scottish Conservatives, all with the help of our guest David from Podcasting is Praxis.

 

Podcasting is Praxis 

 

PiP Twitter 

 

David's Twitter 

 

Willie Rennie on a slide 

 

Willie Rennie on another slide 

 

Willie Rennie water skiing 

 

Willie Rennie wrestling a ram 

 

Willie Rennie fighting a dog 

 

Liverpool City Council Election 1969 

 

Liverpool City Council Election 1971 

 

Red Clydeside

Is QAnon a religion? What is the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US? Are the royal family moving away from Arab solidarity? How many gold-beaked falcons (unladen) are there on The Crown Prince's yacht? All this and more on your podcast, right now.  

 

Scarlett Westbrook: Why I’m standing to be Young Labour’s under 18s officer  

 

Scarlett on Twitter  

 

Maliha on Twitter  

 

Saudi Arabia appeared to threaten Canada with a 9/11-style attack in a feud over human rights  

 

Religious Studies Project: The Roots of Qanon  

 

A peek down the rabbit hole  

 

Oil Powers: A history of the US - SA alliance

From The Goons to HIGNFY, the trajectory of Postwar British comedy gets the once over with @wariotifo from Reel Politik, which allows an old man to reminisce about the good old days of children buying cigarettes.

 

Reel Politik Podcast 

 

"How Britain fought Hitler with humour" 

 

"Other countercultural revolutions" (1964) 

 

Boomer energy 

 

Stewart Lee about Top Gear 

 

Ironic Review 

 

Blair: Single mothers 'piling up problems' in Britain's inner cities 

 

New Labour, young people, and "anti-social behaviour" 

 

"How Corbyn unmasked comedy" 

 

TBEU and Rory Stewart

Bowie! Nazis! Metallica! Lucy Powell! We have a golden episode for you on the internet. We're discussing state censorship, who is watching the internet censorship watchers, net neutrality and why it matters, the social media giants, the cypherpunk libertarians who wanted to make the internet a place of freedom, and how it is all turning out rather differently.  

 

"When the internet was 100% males" 

 

The power of Mark Zuckerberg 

 

AOC grilling Zuckerberg 

 

Cyberfunk 

 

"All that's wrong with the UK's crusade against online harms" 

 

UN Declares Online Freedom To Be A Human Right  

 

ACORN || Union for the Community

This week we put some of the stories about racism in the recent news into historical context: Dawn Butler stopped by police, the so-called "crisis" over migrant crossings, and Prince Harry on the roots of racism.  

 

Dawn Butler's Tribune article 

 

Amnesty on the Gangs Matrix 

 

Scene from Nightcrawler 

 

The media and refugee Aylan Kurdi 

 

'Greece abandons 1000 migrants' 

 

49% of Britons don't sympathise with migrants 

 

Prince Harry on racism 

 

Queen Elizabeth I, racism and slavery 

 

LGBT+ Labour Scotland tweet

We are delighted to be joined by Luke from Labour GRT to talk about the obstacles Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers face from within Labour and without, misconceptions about GRT communities, and what we can do to make things better.

 

 

Short Animated History Of Britain's Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers 

 

WeClock app and anti-worker Facebook 

 

Egyptians Act 1530 

 

Beurla Reagaird 

 

Genocide of Roma & Sinti 

 

Labour GRT on Twitter 

 

Stop Bzdurom 

 

Stop Bzdurom crowdfunder

This week, we start with Richard Burgon's 10 point plan (and who gets to have 10 point plans) then discuss drugs in a little more depth than your average Labour MP manages. Incorporating our Socialist of the Week, Mark Fisher.

 

How a Bold Left Can Still Shape the Future  

 

Labour calls for 'owl for everyone' after Twitter hack  

 

Building a Minimum Income Guarantee for the UK  

 

When Michel Foucault Tripped on Acid in Death Valley and Called It “The Greatest Experience of My Life” (1975)  

 

Mark Fisher | Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction)  

 

Sapiens  

 

The Psychedelic Experience (pdf)  

 

Alabama 3 - Peace In The Valley  

 

The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack

We dive into the surprisingly narrow origins of much of modern global sporting culture, dissect the Olympics, and forget our PE kit.  We also cover the awful Wiley ordeal and the responses to it.  And is that the sound of distant sirens?  What could this mean?

 

As always, we conclude with our socialist of the week.  

 

Radiohead - The Headmaster Ritual  

 

Muscular Christianity  

 

Latin America: The Football War  

 

What are progressives for? by Chuka Umunna  

 

The Lula Interview - Part 1 w/ Michael Brooks & Brasil Wire  

 

The Lula Interview - Part 2 w/ Michael Brooks & Brasil Wire  

 

The Michael Brooks Show 136 - Quarantine Wisdom ft. Dr. Cornel West  

 

The Michael Brooks Show 149 - Remembering Michael Brooks (1983-2020)

We each speak our place in space then chase free speech from its dais.

Try as we might, we just couldn't keep politics out of your video games.  We're joined by RavenholmCLP from Labour Interactive, and Twitch streamer Sinan to discuss the politics in and of video games, as well as covering the government's sexy summer statement, and as always, our socialist of the week.  

 

RavenholmCLP on Twitter  

 

Labour Interactive  

 

Sinan on Twitter  

 

Sinan on Twitch  

 

Help a Paramedic Complete Their Training  

 

Vice Games, formerly Waypoint  

 

Rob Zacny's Article on J.K. Rowling's Transphobia