The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson

It’s the day after the weekend when parties reacted to a terror attack on London Bridge and a royal rumour swept across social media, and on which we anticipate the visit of Donald Trump. Political journalists from across the DC Thomson Media newspapers explain all this and more for you.

It’s the day that anti-Semitism went from being a global and national conversation to being a very local one, and when the conversation about last night’s climate change leaders’ debate on Channel 4 moved from the environmental issues to one about the debates and broadcasters themselves. Richard Rooney, DC Thomson Media’s Group Digital Editor, takes the chair, and invites voices from across our newspaper folio – including from The Courier, the Evening Telegraph and the Evening Express – to explain and contextualise the day’s election news.

Plus, you can join The Courier’s Political Editor, Paul Malik, in St Andrews on Monday for a hustings event with North East Fife MP candidates. There are still a few tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2019-general-election-hustings-tickets-80439423481

It’s the day that Boris Johnson may not show up to what’s being called the world’s first leaders’ debate on climate change, but his party is predicted to win with a comfortable majority by a major YouGov poll commissioned by The Times. For analysis of this and more of the day’s political news, The Courier’s editor David Clegg is joined not just by writers across the DC Thomson Media newspaper portfolio, but also by a special guest. Kezia Dugdale is the former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, and is now Director of the John Smith Centre for Public Service at the University of Glasgow, and the insight she shares not just on this election but on the overall state of politics today is fascinating.

It’s the day that the SNP launches its manifesto; Labour has a rollercoaster with a tough grilling for Jeremy Corbyn but a bold claim that leaked documents prove the NHS would be up for sale under a Conservative government; and, well, who among us hasn’t said the name of the wrong constituency they’re running for when standing in front of a room of voters? Let political writers from across DC Thomson Media’s newspapers explain it all for you.

As Boris Johnson visits Fife, Nicola Surgeon faces a tough interview by Andrew Neil, and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour faces criticism from the Chief Rabbi over anti-semitism, political writers from across DC Thomson Media’s newspapers come together to put it all into perspective for you.

For this inaugural episode of The Stooshie, The Courier’s David Clegg is joined by his own political editor Paul Malik, Evening Express political reporter Adele Merson, and the Press & Journal’s Westminster political correspondent Daniel O’Donoghue (on a dodgy line from Portcullis House) to give a general snapshot of the political parties’ performance, now that almost all of the manifestos have been published.

Welcome to The Stooshie, the politics podcast from political heavyweights at DC Thomson Media’s newspapers. Hear a warm welcome from David Clegg, the editor of The Courier, and subscribe, free, today so you don’t miss an episode!