Reports from late 2025 indicate a rise in hate crimes across Scotland. Racist offences, linked to anti-migrant rhetoric, scapegoating, and protests, made up 60% of such cases. That’s a 6% rise from the same period in 2024. This year, we need to build a safer, more inclusive Scotland for all.

🚨Scotland’s coastal waters are at risk! Evidence shows that salmon farms are having disastrous effects on our waters and are threatening endangered species. We need a stop to licensing now to protect Scotland's waters. greens.scot/ProtectScotl...

Abolish the House of Lords

Cheap public transport is a win-win for people and planet. It means less congestion, less air pollution, and more money in your pocket. 4 years ago we delivered free bus travel for under 22s, now we have the opportunity to deliver it for another 500,000 people aged up to 30.

The good people at @cfine.bsky.social are taking some much needed time off for the holidays! Their emergency food access point times are as follows over the festive season. Information for alternative food support across Aberdeen City can be found here: www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/hou...

Just me, eternally screaming about Just Transition fails. Instead of handing cash to private firms for itty bitty job promises, buy the damn firm, use it to support community/smaller projects, use it as a training ground for high-skilled jobs, expand and re-invest.

every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society

Reform are the party of the super rich, polluters and landlords. Greens will oppose any attempt to roll back the rights of renters.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

I mean, right wing politics is just a synonym for perverting the course of justice

Whatever our differences on the left, we need to unite in opposing the hard-right and far-right. Minor differences in policy or strategy, and of course egos, cannot get in the way of delivering a fair, free, and secure society for us all.

Reducing inequality is essential for "the resilience of economies, the stability of democracies, and the viability of our planet." The road we're on is not sustainable. Tax the super rich.

Scotland's first confidential helpline for women experiencing economic abuse has been launched

The Scottish Government has been urged to reject plans for a Peterhead gas burning power station. The power station would be reliant on the Acorn Project to store any captured pollution.

Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in taking a principled stance. It’s time the UK did the same. Eurovision is an important cultural event. Russia has been excluded for its war crimes; Israel should be excluded on the same grounds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 A new poll has us more than doubling our number of MSPs! It's clear that we need bold solutions to the cost of living crisis and the climate emergency. Together we can build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland.

The Aberdeen Geothermal Feasibility Pilot has the potential to cut heating bills, support district heating networks and provide a cleaner, more reliable source of warmth for households in our city. Fingers crossed it’s successful. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/...

I spoke in Parliament today to challenge the misinformation from those claiming this tribunal as a 'win' for the anti-trans agenda. In fact it found Ms Peggie harassed a colleague for being trans, and it dismissed almost all her claims. It also found that trans segregation is not supported in law.

100% agree with this. Dr Upton has been through a horrendous ordeal but has emerged as the real winner. I hope she now gets some time to recover from the media storm.

A lot of politicians will be seeking to exploit what’s happening in Falkirk today. If some had paid more attention to communities suffering from insecurity (economic, social, etc.), we wouldn’t be here. The rise of the far-right is a wake-up call. It's beyond time we offered something better.

It bears repeating: "...the increased success in diagnosing neurodivergent people largely involves improving the lives of women and girls."

On this front, a reminder that (in Scotland at least), people are very supportive of capping donations to political parties and supplementing / replacing it with per-vote based public funding. 60% supported public funding for parties and 51% selected options that *at least* capped private donations!

Some good news from our northern neighbours. This is a welcome step for women’s rights, the right to bodily autonomy and safe, secure abortions in the Faroe Islands. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every new member is another voice for our climate, and for ordinary people and families who are being hammered by a rigged system.

Our front page looks a little different this morning, and that’s because we have decided to publish a timeline of the so-called 'ceasefire' in Gaza, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s brutal apartheid regime continues to claim lives 👇

Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel. After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.

Reform in Scotland have pushed islamophobia during a by-election, advocated concentration camps for asylum seekers, and now a blatantly racist attack on Glasgow's schoolchildren. Everyone who believes in equality, human rights and democracy must recognise this threat for what it is: fascism.

Nigel Farage and his cronies are a broken record with an imperial hangover that won’t shift. Reform is setting a deeply racist agenda with their only real policy focused on punishing migrants and people of colour. 1/5

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I feel like you have to keep reminding people "this is our society, we can shape what it is. None of this shit is inevitable no matter how much they tell you it is"

4 years ago we delivered free bus travel for under 22s. Now we want to expand it to everyone under 30 - improving mobility, lowering congestion and pollution, and leaving more money in people's pockets. Reducing the cost of public transport is a win-win for people and planet.

Voting closes in just 7 days and help decide which eco-friendly community projects receive funding across #Aberdeen, #Aberdeenshire and #Moray. Your voice matters, and every vote counts. Have your say by 5pm on Monday 8 December at jtpbfund.scot/vote

Scotland rejects hate. Scottish Greens were proud to march alongside @scottishtuc.bsky.social, workers and communities over the weekend against racism and fascism.

The consequences of plastic pollution just keep getting better and better. In a world where the rich and powerful actually cared about the rest of us, this would be a massive priority. We are fighting a war on multiple fronts against ourselves, and we need wartime industrial planning to match.

On St Andrew’s Day we marched against racism and fascism. Alongside fellow trade unionists, environmentalists, and activists campaigning for equality, peace, and freedom, we rejected bigotry and hate. Aberdeen’s diverse communities united.

The far-right in Aberdeen really are pathetic. Threatening council staff when they were putting up Christmas lights last week, followed by 25 weirdos intimidating parents, teachers, and bairns outside Seaton Primary School today. Asylum seekers and migrants aren’t the problem; bigotry is.

Inclusive, adaptable, regionally responsive gender affirming health services are not optional. They are essential. 1/2

St Andrew’s Day March, Palestine Bloc; Assemble at Rubislaw Terrace; Saturday, 29th November, 11am

BREAKING🚨 Campaigners were outside Dana Petroleum HQ in Aberdeen today to call out their contract with the Israeli government! We join the International Day of Action against Dana Petroleum & its owner the Korean National Oil Company (KNOC) - in Ulsan, South Korea, in Aberdeen, Edinburgh & London.

Different wages for different ages is nothing more than legalised discrimination. I think we’ve all agreed that paying women less than men is unacceptable so there’s no logic to permitting any other type of wage discrimination. Same work, same wage.

The 20% real terms cut in funding our colleges have endured over the last 5 years has been devastating. Our colleges are important working-class institutions, crucial to our economy, society, and a truly just transition. Funding cuts must be reversed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For everyone still insisting that flag-waving, anti-immigrant protests are “an English problem”, tell that to the people of Aberdeen. A councillor is asking that Saltires be removed from public spaces because anti-asylum protesters have twisted it into a symbol of "hostility and division".

📢 Tomorrow, Wed 26 Nov, is the International Day of Action against Dana Petroleum. From noon I'll join pro-Palestine & climate activists on Huntly Street in Aberdeen to stand against resource theft & oppression. Illegal exploitation of resources in Palestinian waters must stop.

Zack Polanski tears into the Chancellor's Budget on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg 🎥 🗣️ 'When are we gonna see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?'

The only way backward-facing conservative hate mongers ever gain traction is by lying. About current laws, about progressive proposals, about the sources of harmful policies, about material divisions in society. Don’t fall for it.

Quite possibly the most astute political insight he’s ever had

I was lost for words yesterday during Trans Day of Remembrance. The EHRC guidance, transphobic but also deeply misogynistic, and the Herald political awards… the timing was something. Warm words won’t cut it. People in positions of power need to take action.

Workers at Mossmorran have been betrayed by our Governments. Scottish Greens have been demanding a Just Transition plan for Mossmorran for over a decade to protect workers and the local community. The Scottish & UK Governments have failed these workers.

In the UK, the single leading cause of death for men under 50 is suicide. Three-quarters of all suicides in the UK are by men. This issue needs to be taken more seriously. Vulnerability is not weakness. Open up and talk. End the stigma.