Scotland led the way on issues like the smoking ban and equal marriage – I believe it can show the way again, writes LibDem MSP Liam McArthur ✍️
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This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.
The US military has been using Scottish Government-owned airports in their airstrikes against Iran, according to the BBC.
The planes have flown missions that a defence analyst labelled "crucial" to the war.
The Scottish Government must finally evict Trump’s forces.
On Ofgem’s decision to grant Elon Musk’s Tesla Energy company a licence to supply electricity in Britain, Naomi Smith of Best for Britain: “We all know the British public rightly view Elon Musk as a profoundly dangerous and malign influence, who belongs nowhere near our critical infrastructure."
Disaster capitalism not good for the economy
🔴EXCLUSIVE: The vape shop at the centre of the fire on Glasgow's Union Street had not paid business rates and does not appear on a legal register to sell tobacco or vaping products, The Ferret has found.
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It's a disgrace that shops selling vapes face fewer checks than those selling alcohol. This must change.
Greens are calling for a robust licensing scheme that gives local councils the power to refuse licences and enforce safety standards.
Fire which destroyed Glasgow’s Union Corner building, built in 1851, and closed Central Station, Scotland’s busiest, started in a vape shop which hadn’t paid business rates and isn’t registered to sell tobacco or vaping products.
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Tuning into the Energy Action Scotland hustings: @patrickharvie.bsky.social calling out the fact that Heat in Buildings bill was not just delayed but stripped of meaningful outcomes; that the total energy debt in the UK could be written off for a third of the cost of annual fossil fuel subsidies…
It has been embarrassing to see other parties fighting about who's most eager to give a giant tax break to the fossil fuel giants... the very industry that has brought us to the point of global crisis.
It's encouraging to see the public aren't taken in by the industry lobbyists' demands.
Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' and hit out at 'angry men' after Piccadilly Gardens violence
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Prestwick Airport is being used by Donald Trump to help facilitate the US bombing of Iran, according to a military intelligence expert
This article by @fionaswriting.bsky.social is brilliant and powerful bylines.scot/society/men-...
It's clear this is an illegal war. There's not much left to consider.
"Children may be forcibly removed...in handcuffs..."
Appalling from the Home Secretary. UK Labour has learnt nothing from the embarrassing defeat in Gorton & Denton.
Pandering to the right does not work. It only makes life worse for everyone.
Abolish the Home Office!
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The explicit racism he uses to justify his position is no surprise. These people will start with their so-called 'citizen patrols' but if they get a whiff of power it'll turn into ICE-style gangs of armed and masked thugs abducting people for looking or sounding foreign.
“The Scottish Government has moved from evidence-based opposition towards strategic ambiguity.”
It was great to speak to @theferret.scot for this deep-dive on the Scottish Government’s evolving position on oil and gas:
there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists
Be there if you can!
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett
We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs
Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken
New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...
More evidence, if you need it, that Reform are a party of the super-rich. They'll always serve the interests of the wealthy people who own them.
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
The same billionaire dictators that deliberately encourage British people to move to their tax havens so they don’t have to fund defence and public services at home think *we’ve* let them down, lads…😂
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It has been 6 months since the Scottish Government backed Greens calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.
Today I stood with campaign groups outside Parliament demanding action.
Companies profiting from genocide against Palestinians should not be allowed to profit in Scotland.
The Scottish Greens co-leaders will address an independence rally alongside the First Minister five weeks before the Scottish Parliament elections 👀
Every poll like this is a sign of what's possible.
But making it a reality will depend on Green supporters everywhere joining the campaign and getting active.
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