Maggie Chapman

Scotland should not be a staging post for Trump’s military machine and his reckless war.

The Scottish Government must stop hiding behind Westminster and start using every power and lever it has.

His war on Iran has already had devastating consequences, and now he risks pulling the whole region into even deeper catastrophe to satisfy his massive ego.

Donald Trump is a dangerous, warmongering fascist president who has shown contempt for international law and human rights while inflicting terror upon people across the Middle East.

If the UK is to be a credible voice for peace, then there must urgently be an end to the arming of war criminal regimes such as Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.

Throwing even greater sums of money into the pockets of arms company bosses isn’t going to make the UK any more secure, and certainly not if we continue with a foreign policy that has done so much damage.

The university cannot cut its way to growth.

The UK Government and the courts have criminalised conscience and sent a chilling message to anyone willing to speak out against injustice.

We stand in solidarity, not only against Trump but against everything he and his politics stand for.