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Auto-generated captionsTimed from 4:00 to 1:34:09.The last What The X before Christmas.

This is the last What The X before Christmas, and Bob is on his own with Edinburgh. He opens on home: a city he still loves, and one he says has been occupied, gentrified and socially cleansed, with student flats and Airbnbs where social housing should be. The middle of the hour stays on the streets. St Peter’s is switched to student flats so a social-housing quota can be dodged, Jock’s Lodge and Northfield are lined up next, and £1.7 million of visitor-levy money is found for the Tour de France while community care is cut and empty council houses sit unused. He will not throw out Chomsky’s work over the Epstein connection, and he reads the rise of Reform as the failure of the Scottish establishment, not a working-class answer. He closes by thanking the people who have kept Discontent going, and by asking for peace in the year ahead.

Date
19 Dec 2025
Guest
Bob, solo
Length
1:34:42
Views
420
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