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In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss John Swinney and the SNP's oil and gas U-turn. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for Skotia's mailing list. Join our WhatsApp Channel. ⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon warehouses of today, the British working class has been pushed from the center of political life to its margins, though not without a fight. But how did a force that once shaped nations become invisible? On Nest of Fearties, Ewan Gibbs joins Coll McCail to discuss his new book 'An Injury to All:The Unmaking of the British Working Class'. Ewan is a historian of energy, industry, work and protest at the University of Glasgow. He is also the author of Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss John Healey's first budget. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss the approval of the Jackdaw North Sea gas field. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss John Swinney's speech to the SNP conference. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for Skotia's mailing list. ⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

On 29 September, CX Tech Ltd submitted plans to construct the largest data centre in the world. Their £16.5 billion proposal, to be built on the former Chapelcross nuclear site in Dumfries and Galloway, is the latest of more than twenty data centre applications lodged by developers in Scotland over the past year. The country, as one devolved government minister put it last month, is ‘open for business’. To discuss Scotland's data centre boom, Rory Hamilton is joined by Kim Pratt and Craig Dalzell. Kim is a Senior Circular Economy Campaigner at Friends of The Earth Scotland. Craig is the Head of Policy & Research at Commonweal. Sign up to Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss the decision to end BBC Scotland's terrestrial programming. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠ Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss Andy Burnham's first speech to the Labour Party conference. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel. ⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss the Scottish Government's plan to reform local government across the country. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for Skotia's mailing list. ⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel. ⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss the gathering of the so-called 'Celtic Alliance' in Cardiff. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠ Support Skotia on Patreon.

September 2025 saw the largest far-right street mobilisation in British history. Eight months later, 17 Reform UK MSPs were elected to the Scottish Parliament. This summer, anti-immigration protests swept across the poorest communities of Scotland’s largest city. On Nest of Fearties, Coll McCail is joined by Daniel Trilling to discuss the rise of the far right and how the British establishment helped to make it respectable. Daniel Trilling writes about nationalism, migration and human rights for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and the New York Times. His work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Political Book Awards and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Order Daniel’s book online. Sign up for Skotia's mailing list. ⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel. ⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Samuel Rafanell-Williams, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss the SNP’s allegation that Andy Burnham is only the Prime Minister of England. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for Skotia's mailing list. ⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel. ⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Coll McCail and Rory Hamilton discuss the future of Scottish shipbuilding in light of Ferguson Marine's decision to cut 70 posts on the Clyde. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Coll McCail, Rory Hamilton, and Samuel Rafanell-Williams discuss the growing opposition to Scotland's data centre boom.🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠ Support Skotia on Patreon.

In the latest episode of News From Nowhere, Skotia's weekly news podcast, Coll McCail and Samuel Rafanell-Williams discuss the latest fall in SNP membership. 🎙️ Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for Skotia's mailing list.⁠⁠ Join our WhatsApp Channel.⁠⁠Support Skotia on Patreon.