Patrick Harvie: Real change will happen with more Green councillors in City Chambers
IN the Green movement we have a well-worn and time-honoured phrase: think globally, act locally.
IN the Green movement we have a well-worn and time-honoured phrase: think globally, act locally.
SOME politicians like to pretend that we can have public services like the best European social democracies while paying only rock-bottom taxes as the most unequal, right-wing countries do.
Waste is no-one’s idea of a glamorous subject, but when things don’t go right it’s an emotive one.
IT’S time for one last party of 2023 as we brace ourselves for what another year has in store.
Green View – Patrick Harvie: ‘Glasgow is vulnerable to more storms on the horizon’ Cycling through the Glasgow rain, against the morning headwind towards the Gallowgate, it was clear that despite the gloom Storm Babet had let our city off lightly.
WHAT does a “domestic extremist” look like? Someone wearing a red baseball cap emblazoned with slogans claiming to make their country “great again”? A far-right thug who uses the threat of violence in an attempt to intimidate anyone who looks different from them? Or members of a community peacefully waving home-made placards, campaigning to protect themselves from pollution?
THIS week’s return to business for the Scottish Parliament was an opportunity to address the hopes of people in every community across the country. Making Scotland a fairer, progressive, more democratic country is something there’s broad agreement on but it’s an agenda that has needs a far bolder approach at Holyrood.
MY summer holiday this year began with one last work commitment – I had accepted an invitation to speak at the Féile an Phobail – the West Belfast Festival – about independence, Brexit, and the connections between the Irish and Scottish situations in this unprecedented context. It’s pretty unarguable that both countries’ interests are being trampled on by the UK Government’s reckless approach.
THIS summer’s weather has been extraordinary, not just in Scotland but around the world. It has been accompanied by the usual slew of online articles about how to get to sleep in the warm weather (has anyone actually managed to fit a pillow in the freezer?) and the importance of staying hydrated.
IT’S been a bad week for the UK Government. I mean bad, even compared with all the other bad weeks.
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