Try royal opera house stream this Christmas for just one pound and watch enchanting productions including the nutcracker

enjoy unlimited access to over 80 extraordinary ballets, operas and exclusive behind-the-scenes features.

Sign up for Royal Opera House Stream now with your first month for just one pound.

For details, visit R.OH.org. UK forward slash offer.

One pound for the first month after 14 free days,

and nine 99 a month thereafter,

cancel any time, tease and sees apply.

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

Trains, now on Uber.

Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I'll be talking to George Eton and Harry Lambert

about the Troubles in Scottish Labour. Then our editor Jason Cowley will talk to

Shiraz Mahair about the young Britons who've gone to fight in Syria.

Finally, our literary editor Tom Gatti talks to Peter Miller about the legacy of the Berlin Wall 25 years after its fall. It's been a big week for Scottish Labour. Last week the leader resigned saying

that Ed Miliband was running it like a branch office. I'm joined by a political

editor George Eaton and Harry Lambert editor of our election site May 2015 to talk

about what happens next. So George I'll start with you. What did Johann Lamont

the former leader of Scottish Labour but why

did she couch her criticisms the way that she did? Well she was enraged by her

treatments in over that over the final week of her timer's leader and particularly

that she was told the general secretary he left his position that he'd been driven out

and that was presented to her as a fair company, even though he's the Scottish Labour

...