THE dust is still settling on what was a historic washout election for the Tories.
Today, thousands of people will take to the streets of Glasgow, united by a call for an end to Israel’s brutal bombardment of Gaza.
Nothing’s sad until it’s over, and then everything is,” actor Peter Capaldi, our talented fellow Glaswegian, contemplated in his brilliant portrayal of the twelfth Dr Who, facing up to the fact that nothing would be the same anymore.
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.
