Kate Nevens

This is a massive loophole that is totally incompatible with any boycott policy worthy of the name.

This is a welcome move from the SNP, backing a comprehensive ban on LGBT+ conversion practices.

This is fascism in action.

The global shift to the right has been accompanied by cuts to aid budgets over the last few years.

[The parliament] condemns the university’s decision to close 90 programmes in its College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS); notes with sadness the proposed closure of a number of courses within the school of education…

The parliament stands in solidarity with members of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland at the University of Edinburgh following their announcement of five weeks of strike action from 28 September; understands that this action…

I’m calling on the University of Edinburgh to reconsider these plans, actually engage properly with staff and their union, and publish a clear assessment of the impact on disabled learners and Scotland’s future specialist teaching…

Disabled learners must not be left paying the price for cuts made years before they enter a classroom.

If the university closes these routes, it must set out a roadmap explaining how teachers will continue to access that training and what the decision could mean for the children and young people who rely on it to learn.

Offord was a Tory peer and government minister while his party imposed austerity, slashed public services, and damaged communities across Scotland.

Scotland needs investment in secure jobs, public services and support for people who are sick, disabled, studying or caring for loved ones.

For him to ignore that record and instead blame migrants for economic hardship and struggling councils is shameless, dishonest, and utterly disgusting.

When the Government finally gets the courage to act on their own commitment, they will have our full support.

The Scottish Government must offer a clear roadmap for Scotland that protects everyone affected, leaving no loopholes for abuse and ensuring that no-one is left behind.

A comprehensive, watertight ban has been promised again and again, and rather than following through on the promises the Scottish Government made, today’s Programme for Government has delayed it further.

Conversion practices have no place in modern Scotland.

They need to urgently end all contracts with companies complicit in the genocide, as well as companies involved in the illegal Israeli settlement building programme in the West Bank.

Despite supporting our motion [on September 3, 2025 to impose boycotts, divestment and sanctions] SNP Ministers have still not taken any steps towards implementing it.

This is a major setback for human rights and a day that many trans people, and those who love them, have been dreading.

The government should scrap this guidance and work with those affected to create a system that protects everyone's safety, dignity and rights.

Trans people want the same thing as everyone else, to live their lives free from prejudice, discrimination and violence.

This guidance is authoritarian and cruel and cements exclusion and segregation.

The UK approach has failed. There can be no more delays and no more kicking it into the long grass.

Far too many people have had to suffer for far too long. They deserve an apology, but they also deserve an end to their pain.