Maggie Chapman

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Fake police officers patrolling our streets at night, intimidating people going about their daily lives, won’t make our streets any safer.

We must see action by the police and others against this threat to our democracy and society.

We must stand against the far right in all its forms – on our streets, in our media, in our politics, wherever we find them.

Bringing this rise forward would be cruel and regressive. After a lifetime of work and National Insurance contributions, people deserve dignity, security and certainty in retirement, not to have the goalposts moved so the Treasury can save…

Labour and the incoming Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, must come clean now. Millions of people cannot plan their futures around official guidance that the government apparently intends to abandon.

With a new prime minister about to take office, he should scrap this divisive guidance.

August 5 will be a shameful day for human rights and a devastating blow for trans people who have been fearing this for a long time.

Katie Hopkins has built her career by spreading racism, Islamophobia and hatred.

Scotland should have no place for those who profit from hate, or seek to normalise the far right.

The Scottish Government and VisitScotland should also ensure that no public money or promotional support is used to market businesses that are choosing to host far-right political figures.