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Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie joins Greens Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie has joined the Greens nearly three years after he quit the Labour party.

Locally and nationally, @scottishgreens.org are representing working-class interests and providing a real left-wing alternative - the very things I had hoped to do as a Labour councillor.

I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.

Independent councillor Ross McKenzie joins Greens - Edinburgh Green Party NEWS RELEASE FROM EDINBURGH GREENS For immediate release – 8am, Monday 8 December 2025

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Independent councillor @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social joins Greens

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Edinburgh Evening News in which they say… ‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it without fear of prosecution’

The Edinburgh Evening News printed these lines on a story about antisocial bike use.

‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it’

I don’t think this is acceptable. The normalising, publishing, promoting of illegal acts towards a group.

Most Brits I know wash their dishes in soapy water and DON'T rinse them.

So the filthy bread knife is hardly surprising.

Scottish Green members have voted to condemn the German and Austrian Greens over complicity in genocide in Gaza. #sgpconf

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.

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...

🚲 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!

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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...

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...

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

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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...

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

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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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Do this and get rid of exclusionary classist and racist voter ID laws.

Watch to the end and ask yourself: is there any bigger hypocrite than Keir Starmer?

Bravo @zoejardiniere.bsky.social 👏

There’s this circular logic thing that happens frequently in Labour circles where they go “we are the party that’s good on welfare so anything we do on welfare must be good because we’re doing it”.

Scottish Labour councillors fail to block motion in support of Palestine Action

EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Labour councillors have failed in their attempt to block a motion condemning the UK Government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action 👇

Indian court rules trans women are women A High Court in India has ruled that trans women are women despite what India law may say in a landmark decision for the country.

Indian court rules trans women are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’

"What we truly need are intellectual infrastructures and economies of knowledge production that operate simultaneously in and beyond the universities."

Which is why we established The Workers Observatory in Edinburgh: workersobservatory.org We need new spaces of inquiry.

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Amnesty International, as the world’s leading independent human rights group, is deeply careful (and often criticised as being slow) when it comes to its research findings. It has now found with painful clarity that Israel is:

1) An apartheid state; and
2) Committing genocide against Palestinians.