The Steamie by The Scotsman

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The Scotsman's political reporters guide you through the changing landscape of Scottish politics. From Scottish Independence to education and everything in between, they will offer unrivalled insight, explain the political issues of the day, take a deeper look into the problems behind them and introduce you to those who are ultimately tasked with solving them. The Steamie is a Laudable production by the Scotsman.

Episode Date
Dundee University's crisis, oil and gas, and a minimum income guarantee
Jun 27, 2025
The Royal Highland Show and Patrick Harvie's last FMQ
Jun 19, 2025
The spending war of words
Jun 12, 2025
Labour's surprise Hamilton by-election triumph
Jun 06, 2025
A camp maverick who loves the drama
May 30, 2025
The EU deal, Reform winning a by-election, and an interview with Ash Regan
May 23, 2025
Assisted dying vote, immigration crackdown, and an interview with Sir John Curtice
May 15, 2025
Programme for Government, trade bonanza, and an interview on assisted dying with Liam McArthur
May 08, 2025
Tony Blair hates Net-Zero, Maggie Chapman survives, and an interview with Roz Foyer
May 01, 2025
Swinney's anti-Reform summit, and an interview with Patrick Harvie
Apr 25, 2025
Tariffs, Tories and the Scottish Lib Dem conference
Apr 04, 2025
What does the Spring Statement mean for Scotland?
Mar 27, 2025
Dundee University's crisis, welfare reform and the future of Grangemouth
Mar 19, 2025
Nicola Sturgeon's contested legacy
Mar 14, 2025
Reform in Scotland, and an interview with SNP MSP Emma Roddick
Mar 06, 2025
The anti-Farage summit
Feb 27, 2025
Interview with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
Feb 20, 2025
The hit list
Feb 14, 2025
Interview with Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay
Feb 04, 2025
Interview with First Minister John Swinney
Jan 31, 2025
John Swinney's visa plans... and Donald Trump
Jan 22, 2025
How worried should the Scottish Tories be about Reform UK? Plus, Kate Forbes on the future of Gaelic
Jan 16, 2025
The SNP and Labour set out their stalls for 2025
Jan 09, 2025
The Steamie Christmas special
Dec 19, 2024
Has Scottish Labour lost momentum?
Dec 11, 2024
Scottish Budget special
Dec 05, 2024
Tricky deals and tough decisions
Nov 28, 2024
Scotland's killer road: Inside the A9 saga
Nov 21, 2024
Double-jobbing politicians - and an interview with Alex Cole-Hamilton
Nov 14, 2024
What does Donald Trump's election mean for Scotland?
Nov 07, 2024
Rachel Reeves throws down the gauntlet
Oct 31, 2024
1,000 miles later: What a Scotsman reporter discovered on an epic walk around Scotland
Oct 22, 2024
Alex Salmond: death of a political titan
Oct 14, 2024
Jenrick v Badenoch
Oct 10, 2024
Tories north and south
Oct 03, 2024
The UK Labour Party conference, featuring an interview with Anas Sarwar
Sep 25, 2024
The independence referendum 10 years on, with Ian Blackford
Sep 18, 2024
Are we heading for a snap Holyrood election?
Sep 12, 2024
A grim start to the parliamentary year
Sep 05, 2024
SNP conference special featuring an interview with Kate Forbes MSP
Aug 30, 2024
Tory leadership contests heat up, while SNP membership plummets
Aug 22, 2024
Doom and gloom
Aug 15, 2024
Riots and the Tory leadership contests
Aug 09, 2024
The King's Speech... and Scottish Tory manoeuvring
Jul 18, 2024
A political earthquake
Jul 05, 2024
The final countdown
Jun 28, 2024
The general election manifestos
Jun 20, 2024
Starmer launches Labour's manifesto and Douglas Ross self-destructs
Jun 13, 2024
General Election 2024: Douglas Ross announces shock Westminster bid
Jun 06, 2024
General Election 2024: Week one on the campaign trails
May 31, 2024
Things Can Only Get Wetter
May 23, 2024
Swinney gets down to business and Starmer rolls up his sleeves
May 17, 2024
John Swinney’s first week in charge
May 10, 2024
The coronation of John Swinney
May 03, 2024
SNP leadership special
Apr 30, 2024
Humza Yousaf on the brink
Apr 26, 2024
A global embarrassment?
Apr 19, 2024
Tears and triumphs: The Steamie celebrates 100 episodes
Apr 12, 2024
Hay's Way: A reporter's epic walk around Scotland
Apr 04, 2024
Should Scotland legalise assisted dying? Interview with Liam McArthur MSP
Mar 29, 2024
Hate crime, Rishi Sunak's woes and calls to reform Scotland's prostitution laws
Mar 22, 2024
The never-ending issue of the A9
Mar 14, 2024
Humiliation for the Scottish Tories?
Mar 08, 2024
Douglas Ross on ‘worsening’ threats and intimidation of MPs
Feb 29, 2024
Gaza vote chaos, a rebellious Council and the 2nd anniversary of the war in Ukraine
Feb 23, 2024
Interview with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
Feb 16, 2024
A long-awaited resignation and insight into the Westminster bubble
Feb 09, 2024
Tears and admissions
Feb 02, 2024
'F**king clown' and Covid policy
Jan 26, 2024
A slower route to justice?
Jan 19, 2024
Justice on the Horizon
Jan 12, 2024
Tax and cut
Dec 20, 2023
A nightmare before Christmas?
Dec 15, 2023
A national disgrace?
Dec 08, 2023
Death of a political titan
Nov 30, 2023
Michael Matheson clings on, inevitably.
Nov 24, 2023
Can Michael Matheson cling on over £11,000 expenses row?
Nov 17, 2023
WhatsApp coming over the hill, is it a correction?
Nov 10, 2023
A bonfire of evidence?
Nov 03, 2023
WhatsUp with WhatsApp?
Oct 27, 2023
'SNP must lean into shifting sands of Scottish politics' - Stewart McDonald MP
Oct 13, 2023
Rutherglen Special: Labour in dreamland as SNP peer over ruins
Oct 06, 2023
Fergus Ewing's fate and a chat with short-term let minister Paul McLennan
Sep 29, 2023
Does Net Zero changes fire starting gun for general election?
Sep 26, 2023
What to do with a problem like Fergus Ewing?
Sep 15, 2023
Humza Yousaf's battle to put his stamp on Holyrood
Sep 08, 2023
Will Humza Yousaf's independence plan work?
Jun 30, 2023
Winnie Ewing and the SNP's latest talking shop
Jun 23, 2023
Has Nicola Sturgeon's arrest killed Scottish independence?
Jun 16, 2023
Is the SNP's independence push running out of steam?
Jun 09, 2023
Recycling Vs the Constitution
Jun 02, 2023
What is the impact of Police Scotland admitting it is 'institutionally racist'
May 26, 2023
Humza Yousaf's transport woes
May 19, 2023
Is talk of post-election coalitions a sign of SNP panic?
May 12, 2023
Another SNP revolt
May 05, 2023
Scottish Tory Party Conference Chaos
Apr 28, 2023
BONUS EPISODE Humza Yousaf is elected as SNP leader and set to become First Minister of Scotland
Mar 28, 2023
The end of the Sturgeon era
Mar 25, 2023
SNP membership chaos as leadership race continues
Mar 17, 2023
The week the SNP leadership race got dirty
Mar 10, 2023
On the road with SNP leader hopefuls
Mar 03, 2023
The race to Bute House
Feb 24, 2023
BONUS EPISODE Nicola Sturgeon resigns - the end of an era in Scottish Politics
Feb 15, 2023
Ditch 'de facto'! Stewart McDonald on next steps for the SNP
Feb 10, 2023
Cuts to council jobs, gender wars and Tory sleaze
Feb 03, 2023
The Isla Bryson political fallout, plus a chat with Scotland's youngest MSP
Jan 27, 2023
The fallout from Section 35 and the return of education
Jan 20, 2023
Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon face-off in Inverness
Jan 13, 2023
What's in the Scottish budget and what does it mean?
Dec 16, 2022
Will Gordon Brown's plans for reform save the Union?
Dec 09, 2022
What does Ian Blackford's resignation mean for the SNP?
Dec 02, 2022
Does the Supreme Court result spell the beginning of the end of independence?
Nov 25, 2022
Anas Sarwar and Paul McLennan speak to The Steamie
Nov 18, 2022
Ian Blackford and Wendy Chamberlain chat to The Steamie
Nov 04, 2022
The SNP's gender rebellion
Oct 28, 2022
The resignation of Liz Truss
Oct 21, 2022
SNP's Supreme Court Scramble
Oct 14, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon's health problems and Scottish Tory wipeout
Oct 07, 2022
Kami-Kwasi's budget gamble and fury at the ferries fiasco
Sep 30, 2022
Dissecting Nicola Sturgeon's independence referendum gamble
Jun 29, 2022
Boris, bullying, and independence bluster
Jun 24, 2022
Who is more doomed, Boris Johnson or Douglas Ross?
Jun 10, 2022
Kate Forbes' four years of cuts for Scotland
Jun 02, 2022
Has Nicola Sturgeon succeeded or failed as First Minister?
May 27, 2022
Could the ScotRail crisis threaten the job of the SNP Transport Minister?
May 20, 2022
Local Election Special: Who really won the 2022 council elections?
May 09, 2022
Does SNP incompetence impact independence support?
Apr 29, 2022
Boris Johnson on the precipice as Holyrood returns
Apr 22, 2022
Rishi Sunak's tax woes and the SNP's relationship with newspapers
Apr 12, 2022
Tory MP under fire, the UK's energy future and more ferries fun
Apr 05, 2022
Scotland's ferry fiasco - should an SNP minister resign?
Mar 29, 2022
Ukraine latest and the cost-of-living crisis
Mar 22, 2022
Will Douglas Ross' reverse ferret on Boris Johnson change anything?
Mar 15, 2022
Are Scottish Labour on the way back to power in Scotland?
Mar 08, 2022
War in Europe - Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Mar 01, 2022
The hounding of Sarah Smith
Feb 22, 2022
Boris Johnson in Scotland and the SNP/Green independence prospectus
Feb 15, 2022
Is the SNP misleading Yes voters about their pensions?
Feb 08, 2022
Can Boris Johnson recover from Partygate and are both unionists and nationalists failing voters around the independence debate?
Feb 01, 2022
A week to remember?
Jan 25, 2022
Partygate, Boris Johnson's future, and Douglas Ross' career gamble
Jan 18, 2022
Is Indyref2 now inevitable? Analysing the SNP/Green deal
Aug 24, 2021
Finding the funny in politics with Matt Forde
Aug 03, 2021
What is Boris Johnson's legacy two years in?
Jul 27, 2021
'Freedom Day' v 'Level Zero' and Willie Rennie's reflections on his time as Lib Dem leader
Jul 20, 2021
'Scotland should know what another No vote would mean' - Ciaran Martin on indyref1 and the constitutional stand-off
Jul 13, 2021
A parliamentary term in review and what to expect after recess
Jun 22, 2021
G7, soft power, and the EU - Where would an independent Scotland sit in the world of foreign policy?
Jun 15, 2021
'Algorithm by stealth' - Is the SNP exams policy failing Scotland's pupils?
Jun 08, 2021
Oil, the SQA, and landlords, what is on the Green wishlist for a deal with the SNP?
Jun 01, 2021
'The SNP are tinkering around the edges' - Pam Duncan-Glancy on the challenges for disabled people in Scotland
May 25, 2021
'Scotland is at a tinderbox moment': Rangers, Pollokshields and Covid policing
May 18, 2021
Holyrood election results 2021: What does it all mean for Scotland's political parties?
May 11, 2021
Alba Rising? Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh on independence, Russia and Alex Salmond
May 04, 2021
Willie Rennie on how the Scottish Liberal Democrats are targeting the SNP
Apr 27, 2021
On the Holyroad: A roadtrip with Scotland's political leaders
Apr 20, 2021
Anas Sarwar on Labour's struggle to grapple with Scottish identity and devolution
Apr 13, 2021
Douglas Ross on IndyRef2, unionism's failings, and his relationship with Boris Johnson
Apr 06, 2021
Holyrood's 'thorn in the flesh' and Alba Party's chances at the ballot box
Mar 30, 2021
Could the Scottish Parliament elections see Holyrood's first black MSP?
Mar 23, 2021
What do the polls say ahead of Holyrood 2021?
Mar 16, 2021
The Steamie Trailer
Mar 11, 2021