As part of our week-long investigation into Labour's PFI Scandal, we chat to Richard Murphy and Robin McAlpine about the practice and how much money has been spent on doomed projects in Scotland and across the UK.

We're back for a special edition! While Abbi is on maternity leave, Steph Brawn and Adam Robertson put together this special episode for the election campaign. We're joined by Mhairi Black who reflects on nine years as an MP, Lorna Slater who takes on the urgency for parties to tackle the climate crisis, and Alba's Chris McEleny - who's running as a candidate in Alex Salmond's party.

Scottish Deputy First Minister Shona Robison describes the latest Scottish Budget is one of the "most difficult in the history of devolution". Taking our reporters through some of the controversial cuts the Scottish Government has made as its Budget passed in Holyrood last week, Robison also weighs in on a council tax row with defiant Labour authority leaders who called on Westminster to bypass devolution. Elsewhere, political reporters Abbi Garton-Crosbie and Steph Brawn take you through the headlines from FMQs, the reaction to plans for an Orange walk in Aberdeenshire and how a Glasgow Willy Wonka experience went viral.

The House of Commons descended into chaos this week as Speaker Lindsay Hoyle allowed a Labour amendment to be moved during an SNP opposition day debate that was supposed to be calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Go behind the scenes with SNP chief whip Owen Thompson who takes our political reporters Abbi Garton-Crosbie and Steph Brawn through the ins and outs of a dramatic day where archaic Westminster procedure overshadowed a serious international issue.

And, hear the key parts of the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow that led into this heated debate, and what Anas Sarwar had to say about the SNP's motion.

Scotland's top pollster and professor of politics at Strathclyde University John Curtice joins the podcast to dissect two new conflicting polls. We look ahead to the General Election, and why independence support has remained so steady almost a decade after the 2014 referendum. And, host Abbi Garton-Crosbie takes listeners through Humza Yousaf's Cabinet reshuffle after Michael Matheson's resignation.

What does the Scotland Office actually do, and why does it take multiple FOIs and a parliamentary question to find out how many staff they have working in Edinburgh? Host Abbi Garton-Crosbie is joined by SNP MP Deidre Brock to discuss Alister Jack's "propaganda" department, and political reporter Steph Brawn joins to debrief a long week at the UK Covid Inquiry. Elsewhere, go behind the scenes at the latest independence white paper launch on culture. 

With the monarchy's popularity plummeting under King Charles - could or would an independent Scotland get rid of the royals? Political reporters Abbi Garton-Crosbie and Steph Brawn speak to anti-monarchy campaigner and Our Republic convener Tristan Gray on the politics of the royals in Scotland. Elsewhere, we look at the Post Office Horizon scandal, new rules for XL bully dogs, the Scotland Office seeking expenses over the Section 35 court case, and the looming General Election.

The first podcast episode of 2024 looks at what could be the next controversial piece of legislation to come through Holyrood - a bid to ban LGBT+ conversion practices. Dr Rebecca Crowther and Tim Hopkins take us through the key points of the legislation and the pushback it has seen already just days after a consultation was launched. Elsewhere, political reporter Abbi Garton-Crosbie takes listeners behind the scenes to the SNP's General Election launch in Glasgow, and the first political huddle of the year.