Laura Moodie

We need to rebalance this and give small and independent businesses a level playing field with billionaire firms to help rejuvenate our local communities and make our neighbourhoods into thriving and better places to be.

Scotland should be building a tax system that is fair, progressive, and fit for the future, and one crucial way to do this is to level the playing field by making giants like Amazon pay to offset the damage their online businesses have…

Huge global online retailers are making obscene profits while Scotland’s small businesses are struggling and our high streets are being hollowed out.

How can any boycott worthy of the name allow grants to GE?

The SNP already ignored its own policy when it named Barclays as a partner in its bond scheme. This is an even more blatant breach.

How can this possibly be reconciled with a policy of boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning companies that arm and support Israeli forces?

GE Aerospace has a shameful history of arming Israel and other governments that have been widely accused of human rights abuses.

The Scottish Conservatives must come clean about these donations and show that wealthy developers are not being given a louder voice than local communities.

The Scottish Greens have been clear from the start that these massive developments must not go ahead without proper consideration of their cumulative impact on Scotland’s energy system, land, water and climate targets, and clear national…

People living near these developments deserve political parties working in their interests, not those of wealthy donors and developers.

Only weeks ago, the Tories refused to support our party’s call for a moratorium on new hyperscale data centres, falsely claiming it would deter investment from Scotland.

The Scottish Conservatives need to come clean about the money they have received from people with direct financial interests in Scotland’s biggest and most controversial data centre proposals.

Until we have a clear national strategy from the Government, this proposal cannot proceed.

This application must be rejected because of the risks and consequences it could bring to our energy grid and our rural communities.

While household energy bills keep going up, hyperscale data centres will only make that worse.

The proposed site alone would use an unsustainably high amount of energy.

We can’t sit by and watch reading literacy decline, I urge the Scottish Government to take action and back our call for a Dolly Parton libraries fund.

Giving primary school children access to free books is a simple and effective way to do this.

With the recent PISA results showing a long-term decline in reading in Scotland, there must be urgent action to tackle that now.

The Scottish Government can honour her legacy by committing to introducing libraries in all remaining primary schools with a library fund.

Dolly Parton inspired a love of reading in children across the world, including Scotland.

Local people deserve answers before decisions are made, not excuses after the damage has been done.

We cannot sleepwalk into a climate-wrecking project of this scale, which increasingly appears to be putting tech giant profits ahead of local communities.

This proposal raises far more questions than it answers. People are rightly concerned about a project that has promised the earth, yet looks more far-fetched, more extravagant and harder to defend with every new revelation.