Maggie Chapman

At Mossmorran, the focus should be on creating well-paid green jobs and ensuring a future for workers at Mossmorran.

The Scottish Greens will always stand with our wonderfully diverse communities and reject the hatred of the far-right.

We must stand up to these groups who seek to divide our communities and fuel division.

This is essentially a vigilante army that will target marginalised people of colour, whatever their background.

I am very concerned that a group designed to intimidate migrants and spread racism and hatred is being formed in Scotland.

“The Scottish Greens are again urging Dana Petroleum to engage with democratically elected officials rather than remaining silent.”

“Dana Petroleum is showing complete contempt for Holyrood and Westminster politicians by refusing to engage on their operations and answer important questions about its potential complicity in apartheid and genocide.”

“Such activities would be completely incompatible with human rights and international humanitarian law, and the company should cease doing business with Israel.”

“The Scottish Greens have been clear that no Scottish companies should be involved in resource extraction from internationally recognised Palestinian waters,”

We can reduce crime by investing in prevention and early intervention rather than defaulting to incarceration.

Prisons do not work.

We need politics that brings people together, not politics that manufactures enemies.

Labour must rule out the Danish model entirely. And publicly.

Human rights do not depend on where you were born, the colour of your skin, your ethnicity or whether you have the right passport.

Diversity is not a problem to be solved – people from different backgrounds living, working and raising their families alongside one another is a strength of our communities and a source of cultural, social and economic richness.

A government that claims to believe in equality and human rights should never even contemplate such policies that treat people’s ethnicity or nationality as a reason to dismantle communities, remove them from their homes or deny them equal…

Those vested interests must never be allowed to come before human rights or the rule of law. We need to know who knew what, when they knew it, and what they did or about it or what they failed to do in response.

If the Emirati regime has been spying on UK citizens, we should all be deeply concerned, especially given that these allegations have only come to light through the work of journalists.

The Scottish Greens will stand up to racism, fascism and hatred on our streets and in our parliament and will keep fighting for a Scotland where everyone can live with dignity, safety and hope.

The answer to anger and insecurity is investment in our communities, decent jobs, affordable homes, properly funded public services and a politics that brings people together rather than tearing them apart.

But we cannot ignore the role of Reform and its backers, whose politics of division have helped embolden and empower hateful groups.

Masked men shouting abuse, intimidating communities and giving Nazi salutes should never become normal. Yet that is what we have seen on the streets of our cities.

We simply shouldn’t allow cosplay police to patrol our streets.

Let’s make it very clear: these ‘patrols’ aren’t about keeping women and girls safe; they are about targeting already marginalised people and making them feel unsafe in their own communities.