🪡It was my honour this week to chair the 5th UN #ForumofMayors in Geneva and report back our recommendations to member states for enhanced multilevel cooperation between international, national & local governments on the global housing crisis, gender equity, climate change & inclusive growth

Spent a happy hour or so at Glaswegians - Cranhill Arts, Alistair McCallum & Jane Carroll exhibition at Street Level photoworks gallery, Great talk from Alistair about the Glaswegians photographic project.Wee walk down memory lane for me.

Last week all but 2 @GlasgowCC councillors committed to stand beside asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, who’ve been part of Glasgow’s communities for decades and call out the far right’s lies and scapegoating. I moved the @glasgowsnp.bsky.social motion glasgow.public-i.tv/core/portal/...

Christina McKelvie's partner, Keith Brown, along with her sons, Lewis and Jack, are deeply saddened to announce her passing this morning at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Christina McKelvie lit up every room she walked into. She was a warrior with a heart the size of Scotland and the best boss I ever had. Sharing her friendship was one of the great privileges of my life ❤️

Still seeing repetition of recent ill-informed & very inaccurate @heraldscotland coverage of @GlasgowCC finances. My colleague @Bell45, who knows his stuff, explained the realities of the numbers, the pressures & what we’re doing in Glasgow to manage them www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

🙏 Thank you to the women of the SNP who fight every day for a better Scotland. #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay

Due to the temporary closure of Langside Library for a very welcome major refurbishment, my advice surgeries at 6pm on the 4th Tuesday of each month will be moving to @finnsplacetx.org at Langside Church from 25th February. 2nd Tuesdays are still at Toryglen Community Hall

As the voices of climate denial get louder, I’ll always take climate action seriously - and do it in a way that creates new jobs, lowers our bills and unlocks huge economic opportunities for Scotland. Here’s a wee summary of my speech at Glasgow Botanics today 👇 youtube.com/shorts/qqK9b...

Great to hear @johnswinney.bsky.social at the Kibble Palace today reaffirm his personal, passionate commitment to climate action and rejecting climate denialism. As a global leader in the urban transition, Glasgow will be at the heart of Scotland’s delivery plans for net zero & climate resilience

@GlasgowCC environmental teams are out across Toryglen for a Week of Action, in addition to normal services, tackling stubborn local issues like flytipping and dog fouling. Find out more from our local Neighbourhood Coordinator, Christine, at the Glenmore Avenue shops on Thursday

Kelvingrove is perennially glam but it’s looking particularly fabulous tonight as Glasgow prepares to host @MichelinGuideUK #MICHELINStar25, a first for Scotland and a big vote of confidence in Glasgow’s brilliant food & drink scene as well as our event hosting skills

The aftermath of extreme weather events like Storm Eowyn show what public services & staff do that no one else can. Thanks to all @GlasgowCC staff who were working all hours, some of them in the teeth of the storm, to clear up & keep the city safe www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2489257...

NEW: All Celtic Connections performances on Friday, January 24, are postponed due to the red weather warning www.thenational.scot/news/2488017...

The last time we had to close our schools because of extreme weather was during the Beast from the East in 2018. It’s a rare event and that shows how seriously we’re taking this warning. Please take it seriously too, avoid travel and stay safe

⚠️ Due to #StormÉowyn all our Schools and Council Nurseries will be closed tomorrow (Friday 24 January 2025). Your school/nursery will provide further updates directly to you. Please take care.

While Labour and the Tories chase Reform’s rhetoric, the SNP under my leadership will always focus on what matters: serving Scotland and staying true to our progressive values. In short, delivering progress for Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🧵The opening of the UK’s first ever Safe Drug Consumption Facility in Glasgow is a hugely important milestone. It will not only save lives, it will show every person who uses the service that their lives are valuable and that they deserve the dignity, compassion & hope this place provides

📢 There’s no acceptable level of child poverty in a modern, prosperous society. 👉 Poverty limits opportunity, harms wellbeing, and impacts generations. It holds us all back. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We're relentlessly focused on meeting Scotland’s ambitions to end it.

Eradicating child poverty is an investment in our people, not a cost to be borne. SNP policies like the Scottish Child Payment are already keeping an estimated 100,000 children out of poverty. Our Budget will do more by acting to lift the two-child limit. youtube.com/shorts/DjNN9...

Read more from @susanaitken.bsky.social here 👇🏼 www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

🏡 Communities don’t yet see the benefits climate investment can deliver for them such as improved public transport, sustainable food provision or public realm improvements. It is up to Governments around the world - including the UK - to empower change our cities need.

Winter beach, south west Scotland

Local government and especially cities are the key to unlocking investment to deliver both effective climate action and all of its potential social & economic benefits. Implementation of Glasgow’s plans can get Scotland back on track as a climate leader www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

From Doon the Watter, the world’s most boring (and for many of us, nostalgic) picture of an extremely misty & smirry Clyde coast, to wish everyone in Glasgow a very peaceful and restful festive season 🎄

Labour ministers would steal the shirt off your back and tell you to ask John Swinney to buy you a new one.

Very moving to see Glasgow’s Syrian population celebrating the fall of Assad, whose brutality forced them from their homes & made them refugees. They’ve waited a long time for this day & for a moment of hope for the future of their homeland, even if it’s still early days

🚈 The SNP took Scotland’s railway into public hands in 2022. 👷 Since entering government, we’ve built the Borders Railway line, and invested over £11bn improving Scotland’s rail infrastructure.