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Insight and analysis with a Scottish focus from political commentators from The Courier, The Press & Journal, the Evening Telegraph and the Evening Express.
The future of the north-east takes centre stage in a specially recorded live edition of the podcast in Aberdeen. Six candidates from all mai...
The Holyrood election on May 7 takes centre stage in a specially recorded Leaders Debate live edition of the podcast in Dundee. Six leaders...
The team talks through each of the six parties as we hit the final stretch. Can the SNP win big or will they be pegged back? Who will win th...
The NHS is the number one concern for voters at the upcoming Holyrood election. Dr Chris Williams, based in Grantown-on-Spey, talks about th...
The Stooshie looks through the results of our survey on election priorities. This week, the decline of the high street and what can be done...
We look at a topic which is animating voters in rural Scotland ahead of the election. Campaigners from Angus to the Highlands worry about pl...
We look at each party as the Holyrood election gets into full swing. Tories and SNP start in Aberdeen with an energy focus, while Labour goe...
Mum Beth Morrison opens up on her decade-long fight to change restraint and seclusion laws after her disabled son Calum was left covered in...
The SNP gathered for a pre-election gathering in Edinburgh – what’s the mood in the party? We hear from Stephen Flynn and Stephen Gethins, t...
The landmark plan to legalise assisted dying in Scotland has reached crunch time at Holyrood. MSP Liam McArthur explains how he's trying to...
To help us make sense of the UK Government’s economic plans, and problems, we’re joined by Mairi Spowage, Director of the Fraser of Allender...
Tories and Lib Dems held special election conferences, both hoping to make an impact at the Scottish Parliament election on May. We spoke to...
The Scottish Information Commissioner David Hamilton sits down with The Stooshie to talk about Freedom of Information in Scotland, transpare...
Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale joins us to rake over the chaos after Anas Sarwar stunned everyone by calling for the prime mini...
The Scottish Parliament election is three months away and every party is starting their campaign conference, beginning with Jeremy Corbyn’s...
Scotland is certainly feeling the heat now, and for the first time in years, it seems faraway threats are beginning to appear alarmingly clo...
There is a link, honestly. While Donald Trump throws his toys out of his pram, his words are felt everywhere. In Fife, Nigel Farage was hold...
The Stooshie looks at this week's Scottish budget from the SNP Government. Was it an election special? Who wins and loses? We also look at q...
The refreshed DC Thomson politics team reconvenes to get ready for a Scottish Parliament election in May. We start with First Minister John...
Join us, and potentially beat us, in our comprehensive quiz tour of hyper local and random international political highs and lows. Were you...
A two-parter on this week’s Stooshie as we delve into the decision on the Sandie Peggie transgender changing room tribunal. What does it mea...
We speak to one of the patients harmed by disgraced surgeon Sam Eljamel, who worked at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for years. Jules Rose ha...
Mike Tholen from Offshore Energies UK joins us to explain why oil and gas firms are so angry at Chancellor Rachel Reeves' budget. What happe...
We take a close look at the dramatic plan to shut Mossmorran plant in Fife with the potential loss of hundreds of jobs. Is this another nail...
Our extended featured interview with Professor Nigel Seaton marks what could be a major turning point for Dundee University. One year after...
Scottish prisons are creaking at the seams with inmates, and staff are bearing the brunt. Some prisoners are being released in a third “emer...
From Russian aggression, to culture wars in the aisles of a Dundee Hobbycraft, this week’s Stooshie covers ground. We start with a catch up...
On this week's episode, The Courier's campaigns editor Sean O'Neill joins The Stooshie to talk about the Voice for Victims campaign which pu...
We look at a hard-hitting series about the institutional failures which added to an abuse survivor’s ordeal in the Highlands. The Stooshie d...
The SNP conference is being held in Aberdeen this weekend, and there’s an election around the corner. SNP MP Graham Leadbitter joins the Sto...
Maurice Golden is calling time on dog thieves. He hopes a new law that could seem them caged for five years will pass its first Scottish Par...
Labour MP Graeme Downie talks to us about the health of the party before conference begins in Liverpool. He was in Dunfermline with deputy l...
Asylum seekers are being moved from hotels to student halls of residence - what do people in Aberdeen think? Why is the Home Office being so...
We look at the big Offshore Europe conference on the energy industry, hearing how there might be grounds for optimism despite upheaval. Busi...
The Stooshie team is refreshed from our summer break … in which we did a lot of work. Things that got in the way of cocktails by the pool in...
Some stark contrasts in this week’s episode as we look at splits and partnerships in politics. We look at Fergus Ewing’s dramatic exit from...
Dundee and the wider Tayside region has served as the pilot for a scheme to tackle public debt. National charity Aberlour have been helping...
Scottish Conservative chief Russell Findlay joins us ahead of his party’s conference in Edinburgh this weekend. He speaks candidly about his...
Two political heavyweights started the week in Scotland, and we went to speak to both. In Aberdeen, Nigel Farage unveiled his latest north-e...
This week's episode focuses on our in-depth coverage of the fall-out from the St Andrews University rector's comments on Israel. We reveal t...
The link between a college funding crisis and the future of jobs is becoming clear. We look closely at UHI Perth, and at Nescol in Aberdeen,...
Reporter Lindsay Bruce joins the podcast to describe what’s happening in communities affected by the crumbling concrete crisis caused by Raa...
Inverness GP Dr Iain Kennedy, the British Medical Association's Scottish council chairman, joins us for a full interview on the stresses and...
The STUC’s Roz Foyer joins us in Dundee where union members held their annual congress. Roz sets out the big challenges ahead for jobs, the...
We look at the fall-out from the Supreme Court ruling on women being defined by their biological sex in equalities law. What does it mean in...
It’s Holyrood recess, but the headlines keep coming. This week, the team speaks to striking staff outside Robert Gordon University fighting...
We speak to Lib Dem leader Ed Davey in Inverness as his party looks to the Highlands ahead of next year’s Holyrood election. He discusses th...
We speak to Maggie Chapman, who saw off a challenge from TV Gladiator Sabre in an election to the role of Dundee University rector. She tell...
We speak with Willie Rennie, the former Scottish Lib Dem leader, on his decision to go public in support of assisted dying proposals. The MS...
Bosses at Dundee University admit the institution could have run out of cash by June without support. The revelations from parliament are th...