NEW: The Scottish Greens have said they are on track to beat the SNP in Edinburgh Central and secure the party’s first ever Holyrood constituency win

This is heartbreaking to hear about. It's more important than ever to take a stand against malicious misinformation from online hate-filled echo chambers. Solidarity with Edinburgh's Muslim and other religious communities!

New from @workersobservatory.org, who have launched a set of principles and policies to spur MSP candidates for May’s Scottish Parliament elections. At their core is a demand for fair pay and workplace safety. workersobservatory.org/news/gig-wor...

A bottomless well of humiliation

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.

🚨Breaking 🚨 Independent councillor @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social joins Greens edinburgh.greens.scot/blog/cllr_ro...

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.

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...

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..." buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

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

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...

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...

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)

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" - a piece by Cailean Gallagher from @workersobservatory.org www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

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. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

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”.

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 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, 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.

What the fuck are Labour in Edinburgh thinking? www.heraldscotland.com/news/2524641...

Disgusting once again from Edinburgh Labour.

Quakers tried to present a letter to the UK Government in Edinburgh, objecting to the UK's participating in Gaza genocide. In the most petty response they refused to accept it.

Proposals which would have introduced a 'mansion tax' for Scottish property sales have been rejected by MSPs

fun fact: Scottish Labour haven’t released membership numbers since 2018

When my great grandparents joined the Windrush generation they were not ‘strangers’. They were coming to re-build the homeland, my Nana as a nurse, my Pop as a builder. We were never strangers in our own country. Disgusting racism from the heart of government. We are no lesser than.

As we talk about the UK government's awful immigration plans it is okay to talk about the terrible impact it will have on our care homes, universities, economy etc. But first acknowledge the impact it will have on people, lives, communities. This policy is hateful and will devastate people.

Edinburgh council have uploaded plans for phase 2 of the secure cycle hangar scheme. I’ve mapped these out. tinyurl.com/3kudjp5m

"The City of Edinburgh Council has agreed to look into the working conditions of delivery riders in Edinburgh after a motion passed on 20 March 2025, following contributions by the Workers’ Observatory." workersobservatory.org/edinburgh-co...