George Orwell’s “As I See It” Podcast Slot – June 27, 2025

Intro music fades, Orwell’s voice, gravelly and deliberate, cuts through...

'Good evening, listeners. This is George Orwell, and this is my five-minute take on the world as it stands—raw, unfiltered, and as I see it. Let’s start with the global situation. Power, as ever, breeds conflict. The world’s great powers—America, China, Russia, and their satellites—jockey for dominance, cloaking their ambitions in moral rhetoric. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are not isolated tragedies but symptoms of

I would be very grateful if someone could clarify this:
Edinburgh (N & L) ScotParl Election 2021, Lorna Slater received a *total* of 15,359 votes (const & regional), coming 3rd.
This was enough to make her additional list MSP for Lothian?
Okay, so far, so good... ...2 years ago she was caught, along with Mr Potato Harvie and Velcro Greer, in a pub, not doing the social-distancing thing. They all said 'oops' and that appears to have been the end of it (compare with treatment of Margaret Ferrier).
2 months later she was a co-signatory of /

FFS, isn't there anyone in this country capable of holding these corrupt bastards to account?!
How much more of this utterly infuriating embarrassing shite are we supposed to tolerate?
HOW MUCH MORE!? All the pious bleating, the finger-wagging, ‘progressive’ self-satisfied pishery they’ve been ramming in our faces for years now, and all the while they were up to fuck knows what.

#ScotlandsAspirations
#ForwardasOne
'While travelling around Scotland in 1995, the journalist George Rosie had a chance meeting with a senior English civil servant from Whitehall. As they sat in a hotel overlooking Ben Loyal and the hills of Sutherland, Rosie asked him why.../ /why English governments have been so unwilling to hand Scotland back to the Scots. The official ticked the reasons off on his fingers: 'One, oil. Two, gas. Three, fish. Four, water. Five, land. The oil and gas are self-explanatory, even now. Fish might not mean much to the.../