Editor Laura Webster and Westminster Reporter Hamish Morrison discuss how The National exposed last year how Labour Together hired private investigators to look into journalists running critical stories - but nobody cared until the Westminster lobby was affected. They also dive into Beth Templeton's front page today revealing the harassment faced by women who've been standing up for asylum seekers at hotel protests, the formation of the new "Restore Britain" party and horrible new stats about the amount of crap being dumped in the Highlands.

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Editor Laura Webster and Political Reporter Hamish Morrison discuss the massive High Court Palestine Action verdict, and the mood in Westminster now that Anas Sarwar's stunt has had time to bed in. Elsewhere, we fact check six claims about immigration from Nigel Farage as he defended Jim Ratcliffe's comments about migrants.

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Our Digital Audience and Content Editor Laura Pollock and Political Reporter Steph Brawn dissect the latest Labour scandal and infighting as well as some recent moves by Reform UK which come straight out of the Trump handbook

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Political reporters Steph Brawn and James Walker discuss how Anas Sarwar made a massive, massive mess.

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On Friday night, we revealed the secret notice Peter Mandelson sent round newsrooms in the UK urging people to stop contacting him. In today's podcast Laura Webster and Xander Elliards discuss why they took that decision, as well as the politics of the Bad Bunny performance and a new tartan for Greenland. With the Starmer situation moving at rapid pace, we had to cut that out of today's episode, as it was already out of date... Support The National with a subscription at thenational.scot/subscribe from just £1

00:00 Politics of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, 07:47 Filton 6 verdict and Palestine Action proscription; 13:39 Mandelson secret notice, 17:55 Greenland gets new tartan

Editor Laura Webster and Political Editor Xander Elliards discuss the latest news that Zia Yusuf, Reform's chairman, will appear on Question Time for the 6th time in 16 months. Elsewhere, we discuss the Mandelson files latest, and what much reporting is missing in discussing the Epstein case.

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Amid the Peter Mandelson scandal, the House of Lords and its archaic ways have come back up again. How does it make sense to remove a peer but have them retain their title? Why is it so hard to remove a Lord? Why is reform going at a snail's pace? And is there any chance it could EVER be reformed properly? Lucy Jackson interviews Patrick Harvie.

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Political Reporter Steph Brawn and Digital Audience and Content Editor Laura Pollock discuss the latest fall-out from the weekend's Epstein Files, including the new Peter Mandelson revelations, and how Keir Starmer dropped quite the bombshell in PMQs this afternoon. Will Starmer go ... and when?

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