Boyan

if you tell me that protesting the government’s complicity in a genocide is unbritish then i’m afraid what i’m hearing is that britishness is bad

Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.

No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.

Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.

Opposing genocide is not a crime!
🇵🇸 🫒 ✊🏻
Free Palestine
Saoirse don Phalaistín

Sturgeon and McDermid among 200 to sign letter against far right Nadia El-Nakla, Elaine C Smith, and Clare Grogan have also backed the letter.

Over 200 of us have come together as Women Against the Far Right in Scotland and written an open letter rejecting the far right’s racist lies about “protecting” women and girls. news.stv.tv/politics/nic...

Join us and sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...

Green graphic with picture of a mocked up digital ID card for Keir Starmer on a mobile phone. The words read: “ID cards are intrusive and unwanted”

The Britcard (bleurgh) won’t solve any of the systemic problems we face: not poverty, not inequality, not the climate crisis.

But it will make millions for some IT companies & create lucrative jobs for ex-Labour politicians. Just like PPE contracts during Covid.

#NoToDigitalID

I’m pleased to be proposing this motion today 🇵🇸

The Scottish Government took a big step forward in supporting BDS calls from Green MSPs, but now they must do the same for Councils ⚖️

New powers need to be granted to local authorities or else the government position is just warm words ❌ 💬 🤷

Map of projected seats. SNP win 63 constituencies, Conservatives 1, Labour 4, Lib Dems 5. Regional list seats are 0 SNP, 11 Conservative, 15 Labour, 6 Green, 8 Lib Dem, 16 Reform UK. SNP lead in every region. Gallagher Index is 13.6 - a lower index means a more proportional result.

Map of projected runners up and margins. SNP are second in 10 constituencies, Conservatives in 11, Labour in 40, Lib Dems in 2, Reform UK in 10. Closest runner up for last list seat per region is Central and Lothians West Green; Edinburgh and Lothians East Labour; Glasgow Reform UK; Highlands and Islands Lib Dem; Mid Scotland and Fife Conservative; North East Scotland Conservative; South Scotland Reform UK; West Scotland Conservative. In percentage terms margins of victory are 9 constituencies below 5, 8 between 5 and 10, 39 between 10 and 20, 17 above 20.

Projecting Survation 4-16 Sep into seats (changes vs last poll / vs 2021 on new boundaries):

SNP ~ 63 (+4 / nc)
Lab ~ 19 (nc / -2)
Reform UK ~ 16 (-7 / +16)
Lib Dem ~ 13 (+4 / +9)
Con ~ 12 (+1 / -19)
Green ~ 6 (-2 / -4)

(Projection caveats: ballotbox.scot/projections)

Scottish Green Party candidates Q, Kate and Adam holding a Free Palestine sign

Scottish Greens at the Palestine demo

Scottish Greens at the Palestine demo

Green candidates Q and Kate with councillirs Shona and Susan at the Palestine demo

Strong showing from Edinburgh and East Lothian Greens at today's national demo for Palestine. Our hearts are breaking for Gaza #FromTheRiver 🍉

@edinburghgreens.bsky.social
@qmanivannan.bsky.social

Kate readd names of Palestinian children killed under the age of one.

With Mother's Against Genocide reading out the names of the thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israel.

We're reading names all day outside Scottish Parliament. It's tough. There are tears. Anyone available to join us please do.

New Scottish Parliament poll, More in Common ?? Aug/Sep (vs 2021 Election (first MIC Holyrood)):

List:
SNP ~ 32% (-8)
Lab ~ 16% (-2)
RUK ~ 16% (+16)
LD ~ 14% (+9)
Con ~ 12% (-11)
Grn ~ 8% (nc)

Constituency:
SNP ~ 37% (-11)
Lab ~ 17% (-5)
RUK ~ 16% (+16)
LD ~ 12% (+5)
Con ~ 12% (-10)
Grn ~ 5% (+4)

Screenshot of email from council officer confirming benches will return on Monday.

Constituents have been in touch to raise concerns about the removal of Kirkgate benches. I share those concerns, and have expressed them to council officers.

Last night I received an email from a senior council officer confirming that the benches will be returned on Monday.

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Absolutely delighted that, at the 3rd time of asking, we have successfully banned arms companies from commercial activity (including testing) in Council parks and greenspace 🌳🚫

Thank you to everyone who wrote into the consultation earlier this year to make your views known .. we did it! 💬📝

🚲 edi.bike | issue 106 | 18th Aug ‘25 your weekly edinburgh cycling digest

Thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social and @edi.bike for the shout out to the work the @workersobservatory.org is doing in Edinburgh:

"It’s great to see a holistic approach to this issue..."

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Workers Observatory — We See The City The Workers’ Observatory is an Edinburgh-based project run by workers to monitor new forms of work in the city and develop tools and tactics to take advantage of them

Some big news:

@workersobservatory.org in alliance with/ Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA) & Citizens Rights Project (CRP) has been selected for the capacity-building phase of the Regenerative Future Funds in Edinburgh!

workersobservatory.org/the-workers-...

i still remember Glasgow Labour complaining the LEZ was taking too long and should have come into force a year earlier, until a week before it was actually due to come into force when they immediately started demanding it be delayed by a year

'It's Time to Bring Back Scotland's Wolves' As wolf populations grow in Europe, Adam Ramsay argues that reintroducing the apex predator could help control deer populations and rescue Scotland's ecology.

Over-grazing means Scotland’s soil is rapidly eroding, damaging farming, destroying biodiversity, and contributing to the climate crisis. We need - urgently - to bring back wolves. By me: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/its-time-t...

@katenevens.bsky.social & I visited Parliament courtesy our MSP @lornaslater.bsky.social w discussions & dreams for Holyrood ‘26.

We want a kind campaign of peoples & places—our ecologies, local communities, heritage, social enterprises, healthcare & social workers—which all deeply intersect.

It’s time for angry left populism In a time of oligarchy and climate breakdown, politics must be oppositional.

The oligarchs liking our planet have names and addresses and it’s time to stand up and fight for it. Why I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s right that we need an eco-populism, in @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

Kate and Ben sitting in the sun on a wall in Marchmont, holding up a Vote Green clipboard and a copy of Green News

Had a lovely morning doorknocking with Cllr Ben Parker in Marchmont yesterday. Lots of great conversations; gathered some council casework to take forward; and got a few folk registered to vote 💚

@cllrbenparker.bsky.social
@edinburghgreens.bsky.social

How Greens should respond to the encroaching far-right has been a common theme across these selections. Here’s what I had to say at our Edinburgh and Lothians East hustings

TL;DW: Engage with young women who are increasingly turning to the left.

Vote Kate Nevens #1

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A 'good constituency MP'? how ‘hard working local politicians’ are facilitating a genocide I ran into my MP today...

More than 100 members of my nephew’s extended family have been murdered in Gaza. His surviving cousins are being starved. Britain is still providing material assistance to Israel. But when @ChrisMurrayMP canvassed us today, he didn’t want to talk about it: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Rose Street pedestrianisation was always meant to leave the street "open to... cyclists". The one way flow is a legacy of the fact cars and commercial vehicle access was never fully or properly implemented and too many "access" provisions remained (📰Evening News, 4/1/1990)

Photograph of a toilet block in Leith Links

New, fully accessible toilets are now open on Leith Links, in the north of the park 🎉 Each toilet has individual, private access and the unit includes a Changing Places toilet. Find out about our project to improve public toilets in parks www.thrivinggreenspaces.scot/project/publ...

Pictures of Lorna Slater (1), Kate Nevens (2) and Q Manivannan (3) - your Scottish Green candidates for Edinburgh & Lothians East

Some really exciting news 🎉 Scottish Greens have selected our candidates for Holyrood 2026 elections and I'm #2 on the list for Edinburgh & Lothians East! Which means I am in with a good chance of being elected in May 🤩

Alongside the wonderful @lornaslater.bsky.social and @qmanivannan.bsky.social 💚

Why Keir Starmer won't win his new war against food delivery cyclists The UK Government seems to be cooking up a nasty new slogan: stop the bikes.

"Why Keir Starmer won't win his new war against food delivery cyclists" - a piece by Cailean Gallagher from @workersobservatory.org

www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

UK Prime Minister ad suggesting that on-demand delivery riders are working illegally. Image of a rider in black shade with text: Delivered by who?

In a country that already has experienced a concerted summer of riots, this language and imagery is just deeply irresponsible. Many people ride for these companies every day and they deserve to get home safely and without harassment or fear.

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We are pleased to announce our candidates for the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary elections!
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Help us elect the most Green MSPs ever to Holyrood next year!
members.greens.scot/join

You can follow our lead candidates here:
@lornaslater.bsky.social
@katenevens.bsky.social
@qmanivannan.bsky.social