The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson

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

Dundee debt-busting scheme tries to tackle poverty
Jun 18, 2025 – 23:47
Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay interview
Jun 11, 2025 – 21:03
Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer in Scotland
Jun 4, 2025 – 24:50
St Andrews University, Israel and Gaza
May 28, 2025 – 25:03
Reform defections and the future of colleges
May 21, 2025 – 27:31
Raac and ruin
May 14, 2025 – 27:52
Leading doctor on Scotland's fragile NHS
May 7, 2025 – 36:06
Union chief Roz Foyer interview
Apr 30, 2025 – 23:50
Supreme Court 'biological women' fall-out
Apr 23, 2025 – 26:56
Strikes at Robert Gordon University, John Swinney's reset and MSPs deal with 'burn-out'
Apr 16, 2025 – 25:39
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey interview
Apr 9, 2025 – 20:51
New Dundee University rector interview
Apr 2, 2025 – 22:40
Assisted dying interview
Mar 26, 2025 – 18:24
Dundee University finance scandal deepens
Mar 20, 2025 – 23:08
Dundee University jobs crisis
Mar 12, 2025 – 27:29
An eye-opening trip to Ukraine
Mar 5, 2025 – 25:47
John Swinney interview
Feb 26, 2025 – 37:38
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar interview
Feb 20, 2025 – 18:48
Scotland Office minister on energy jobs promises
Feb 5, 2025 – 25:12
Justice for tragic Elgin bus driver Keith Rollinson, another NHS reset and a complex NHS Fife trans doctor tribunal
Jan 29, 2025 – 27:11
Who’s securing Scotland’s sea borders?
Jan 22, 2025 – 26:28
Maybe the public don't like honesty after all
Jan 15, 2025 – 27:11
What’s coming up in 2025?
Jan 8, 2025 – 32:04
2024 Politics Quiz
Dec 18, 2024 – 32:33
University crisis and featured interview on cancer surgery
Dec 11, 2024 – 22:58
Skye shooting gun control, ferry to Europe, and NHS crisis
Dec 4, 2024 – 20:24
Dundee and Angus College plans - and the university funding crisis
Nov 27, 2024 – 25:26
SNP justice secretary on prisoner release
Nov 20, 2024 – 20:40
SNP election drama and oil in the dock
Nov 13, 2024 – 24:48
Andrew Bowie interview, Donald Trump, and Holyrood comes to Aberdeen
Nov 6, 2024 – 32:53
Human cost of budget cuts
Oct 30, 2024 – 23:45
Alex Salmond remembered
Oct 16, 2024 – 27:45
Labour's Dundee hangover, Grampian breast cancer wait anger, and MP's Russia warnings
Oct 9, 2024 – 27:25
Nairn banker murder hits Holyrood
Oct 2, 2024 – 26:59
Scots aid worker Linda Norgrove's Afghan legacy
Sep 25, 2024 – 19:18
Scottish referendum 10 years on, with Yes Scotland chief Blair Jenkins
Sep 18, 2024 – 18:32
Scottish referendum 10 years on, with Better Together chief Blair McDougall
Sep 18, 2024 – 21:57
How Perth prison scheme aims to cut reoffending and ease prison overcrowding
Sep 11, 2024 – 25:48
All change, no cash
Sep 4, 2024 – 24:02
What next for the SNP and Tories, and what's it like to be an MP?
Jul 10, 2024 – 46:34
Polls and postal vote scandal
Jul 3, 2024 – 20:12
Rishi returns as Tories brace
Jun 26, 2024 – 22:09
Election latest, and an Aberdeenshire shock
Jun 19, 2024 – 26:30
Douglas Ross and the Tory turmoil
Jun 12, 2024 – 24:15
John Swinney interview special
Jun 5, 2024 – 43:42
General election fever, week 1
May 29, 2024 – 27:04
Why Scotland's doctors are worried about Physician Associates
May 22, 2024 – 23:30
Scotland's new drug addiction recovery plan explored
May 15, 2024 – 32:12
We search for words of wisdom as John Swinney becomes First Minister
May 8, 2024 – 35:00
Humza Yousaf quits - what next for the SNP?
May 1, 2024 – 24:56