IN the run-up to the 2014 independence referendum, Green Yes – the Scottish Greens’ prospectus for Scotland as an independent country – was characterised by hope.
YESTERDAY’S statement wasn’t something that the PM or Chancellor wanted to do. It was something they were shamed into by a combination of public pressure and bad headlines.
OUR recovery must tackle poverty and inequality, rather than entrenching it.
TUESDAY saw hundreds of students and university workers gather outside the Scottish Parliament. They were there in a spirit of resistance and solidarity to send a loud and clear message against student poverty and in support of striking lecturers.
THE Prime Minister may be under fire for parties in Downing Street, but the damage that his government is doing extends far beyond the UK.
THE society we rebuild must be fairer and more equal than what came before. Tackling poverty and inequality must be at the heart of our vision for Scotland.
NEXT Wednesday will mark 26 years since the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa. An author, playwright, and environmental activist, Saro-Wiwa was one of the Ogoni Nine, a group of non-violent environmental activists hanged by the then Nigerian dictatorship following one of the most notorious sham trials of the era.
WHAT links the Moray town of Forres with Kingston, Jamaica? This may seem a somewhat obscure question, but the answer is slavery, and that’s why it matters, obscure or not. As we seek to build a fairer and outward-looking Scotland, we must acknowledge not only the legacy of colonialism and slavery that is deeply entrenched in many aspects of our society, but also act to repair the damage that centuries of this oppression has caused others around the world.
EARLIER this week Liam Kerr, a Conservative MSP for the North East, accused Greens of wanting to put oil and gas workers out of their jobs. At the time I thought it absurd that a Tory was claiming to care about jobs or workers. After all, the whole point of Liam Kerr's Conservative Party is to support bosses and their interests against the wellbeing of workers. And of course, as Boris Johnson's mask slipped, we saw exactly what the Conservatives want: North Sea oil and gas workers to be sacrificed to an energy transition.
THIS week we remembered the dead and injured of the Piper Alpha disaster.
