⚠️ Today, Standards Commission hearing (Councillors Neil Ross & Marie-Clair Munro) found both had breached the Councillor code of conduct for failing to declare they lived by the Braid Estate when dealing w/ Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route, including their votes to remove effective traffic filtering

We spent the morning speaking with the Edinburgh Central Mosque, discussing their work engaging local neighbourhoods and global communities from nearly 60 nationalities. We spoke about Shaheen Bagh, about justice and care, & the transformative work that Muslim women are pioneering in the Lothians.

Last September, the Scottish Parliament made history by endorsing a Green proposal for a comprehensive package of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel – the first national parliament to do so. Yet the Scottish Government have so far done nothing to implement the boycott.

Those are some great denials of things she’s not been accused of

Massive congratulations to Hannah Spencer! Such an impressive win, and such a great new MP to have challenging the status quo in Westminster. The Green movement is growing, join us! members.greens.scot/join/standar...

New report out now from me and @bkarb.bsky.social at @workersobservatory.org ScORSA Scoping Review: Wellbeing, Health, and Road Safety in On-Demand Delivery Work workersobservatory.org/resources/re...

"Authored by Dr Karen Gregory and Boyan Karabaliev, the report shows that workplace safety regulations, considered standard in most industries, are inadequate or fully lacking when it comes to app-based ridehailing and delivery services." workersobservatory.org/news/new-res...

This image from @ballotbox.scot neatly shows how the boundary of Edinburgh Central has changed to give the Scottish Greens a genuine chance of winning the seat. The Tory vote has since collapsed and they might not even keep their deposit. 🟢Both Votes Green in Edinburgh Central🟢

#Hustings #Holyrood2026 #SpokesMtg ✔️🚲🚲 March 16 --> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/02/spok... @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @kate-c.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @ianmurraymp.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @sw20.info @keithirving.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @jennycooper.bsky.social

"We’re pleased to announce that in partnership with Dr Karen Gregory (@uoe-sps.bsky.social) and Boyan Karabaliev (@workersobservatory.org), ScORSA will be launching new research on the gig economy at our upcoming Road Safety Hour." Feb 24th: lnkd.in/eCTyaqBG media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2...

Yesterday Green councillors called for the city to support the Filton 24 hunger strikers who have been held without trial for months. 🍉 🇵🇸 🫒 💚 Others blocked this as too risky to even talk about, in an eye opening moment for the state of human rights under Labour. @cllrcmiller.bsky.social writes:

Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple” He didn’t “slip through the cracks” He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest. Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him. He was protected & enabled by institutions of power. 1/n

Here's the best explanation

Thanks to our guests @lezleymarion.bsky.social, Cllr Faccenda, @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social, @qmanivannan.bsky.social and @dastonsnp.bsky.social for joining us for the last session of the workshop, giving gig workers an opportunity to directly speak to elected representatives and candidates.

🎯 Getting Gig Work on Scotland's Political Agenda Food delivery workers joined the Workers' Observatory workshop this week to build political momentum towards fair and safe gig work in Scotland. You can read the workers' principles and policy demands here: workersobservatory.org/documents/WO...

More evidence of a convergence between our constituency and list vote shares. More and more people are done lending their vote to the SNP, and want to vote Green on both ballots. A strong Green voice is the best way to enable progressive policy, whilst advancing independence.

I’m sorry to see Angus Robertson continuing to share deliberately misleading false claims 🤥 Greens are polling to win the Central constituency 💚 with tories absolutely nowhere to be found Maybe he’s seen the polling and is scared to tell the truth?

Today! In-person voting for @leithchooses.bsky.social is open at the Kirkgate community centre until 3pm today. Anyone who lives, works or volunteers in #Leith can vote to fund their favourite community projects. Hot drinks, face painting & bike-powered smoothie maker also available!

the Bulgaria instagram account just posts deranged shit

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’