Ungagged USA: The Trumpet Tower of Clinton Cards

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In this episode, presented by Chuck Hamilton, we focus mainly on the US Elections,  with the Native American view from Ruth Hopkins, Allan Grogan and Red Raiph giving the view from Scotland and discussions on Trump from Debra Torrance and Amber Daniels.
With John McHarg speaking about Scotland, Jagdeesh Singh on the ecological denigration of the Punjab and Eric Joyce on the anti-independence “professor” who isn’t quite what he seems...
 Featuring poetry from Steve McAuliffe, fiction from Victoria Pearson and music from the Faslane Peace CampBenefit album - available from CND Scotland and from the peace camp. – call in!

With a hat tip to Neil Anderson for his work with sound effects, and Neil Scott for pulling the entire thing together.

Today we do something historical.

As a Scottish lefty media hub We are going to take NO editorial lead & allow you to make up your mind in #POTUS2016. Our contributers are going out unedited- their views- their analysis. Some agree, some don't. 

Different left views, Ungagged!

A new approach on the left. Respecting all left views and allowing them a voice. Passing no editorial judgement.

YOU decide. You hear the evidence, and if you are a citizen of the USA, you decide.

Fasci... Tory Party Conference Special

This is an unscheduled, bonus podcast, because here at Ungagged we couldn't just let the vile rhetoric pumping out of the Tory party conference go unanswered or unchallenged.

Featuring Matt Geraghty, Debra Torrance, Victoria Pearson, Eric Joyce,  Steve McAuliffe, Amber Daniels and pulled together, as always by the inimitable Neil Scott.

With music by
Thee Faction with Conservative Friend
Vodun with Bloodstones
And
Dream Nails with DIY.

Steve McAuliffe

Steve McAuliffe was born and raised in South East London, and is a published author, performed playwright and a lover of the poetry and ethos of William Blake.

 His writing has appeared in various political and poetical publications to date.
  Having left a secondary Modern with little more than 2 O-levels and a comprehensive education in avoiding violence through humour, he finally returned to education in his early 30’s, when he attended Ruskin College in Oxford. Ruskin at that time was a perfect place to hone his political beliefs; there he mixed with veterans of the miner’s strike, plus assorted anarchists, communists and a handful of anarcho-syndaclists. He eventually attained a Master’s Degree in Scriptwriting from Goldsmith’s College in London
 
  All Steve's writing is fired by a desire for social justice and the idea of individual liberty, as well as an unshakeable belief in the power of the imagination. He says two quotes from William Blake best sum up his philosophy;
  ‘Imagination is a glimpse of the divine’
  And:
  ‘I must create my own system, or be enslaved by another man’s’

  Having written endless plays, and film and TV scripts Steve has recently discovered that the best vehicle for his voice is poetry.

  In July he had his first collection of poetry published, entitled:  ‘Thamesmead’

You can read some of his writing on his website

Or you can follow him on Twitter