Craig Ross

Sometimes this is just me scratching a longstanding itch. More often this is a reaction to the Guardian newspaper from the centre-right. I'm a politics PhD graduate and lecturer who thinks that the devil has some very bad tunes, and it's time to criticise.

38 Episodes

Suella Braverman is spoiling for a fight on human rights – one that undermines this whole government
12/8/2022
1:05:51
The Guardian's Martin Kettle rightly describes government division, and wrongly characterises Brexit and concerns over immigration.
"Trickle-down Truss is carrying on the dirty work of Thatcher, Blair and Osborne" - Yanis Varoufakis
10/1/2022
1:01:48
The former Greek finance minister and professor of Economics attacks new UK prime minister Liz Truss's plans, seeing them as a continuation of forty years of error.
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Michael Gove is right about one thing: building more homes won’t solve anything Simon Jenkins
5/13/2022
54:29
Jenkins argues for reforms to make the housing market less dysfunctional, and so advance the levelling up agenda. I suggest that the real solution is far more radical, and far less politically acceptable, than he thinks.
February 18th. Touching base.
2/18/2022
37:05
On a personal note; law, politics and the citizen. Welfare, and the universal basic income. Tattoos.
The Week's Big Stories in Review 30th January 2022
1/30/2022
50:07
The Gray Report on Downing Street parties. Challenges to Johnson. The Ukraine situation. Neil Young, Joe Rogan and Spotify. Gender, the Scottish Government and the EHRC.
January the 7th.
1/7/2022
58:38
The Covid crisis and the NHS. The acquittal of the "Colston Four". Glasgow's un-gritted roads. Poor health in the second city of the empire.
5th January 2022
1/5/2022
1:04:15
Is Kier Starmer a socialist? Prince Andrew and Giuffre. Scotland's defence lawyers have had enough. Scotland's ferries, and public provision generally.
January 3rd 2022
1/3/2022
58:43
Rather than look at one Guardian article I've taken a look at the stories making the headlines today.
The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it.. – Rafael Behr
12/22/2021
1:11:06
Behr suggests that Johnson's EU "cakeism" - having two mutually incompatible things - has infected other policy areas, and the attitudes of the wider party.
Who will stop human rights abuses if the government puts itself above the law? - Martha Spurrier
12/15/2021
1:10:33
Liberty's director - a human rights lawyer - condemns the government's proposed changes to the powers of the courts, and to the uses that may be made of the Human Rights Act.

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Craig Ross

Craig Ross

38 Episodes

Suella Braverman is spoiling for a fight on human rights – one that undermines this whole government

"Trickle-down Truss is carrying on the dirty work of Thatcher, Blair and Osborne" - Yanis Varoufakis

Michael Gove is right about one thing: building more homes won’t solve anything Simon Jenkins

February 18th. Touching base.

The Week's Big Stories in Review 30th January 2022

January the 7th.

5th January 2022

January 3rd 2022

The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it.. – Rafael Behr

Who will stop human rights abuses if the government puts itself above the law? - Martha Spurrier