Patrick Harvie

The BBC has been under pressure to show commitment to Glasgow and Scotland, after controversial changes including recent redundancies in journalism and the loss of River City.

Violent mobs targeting people because of the colour of their skin have no place in our city and do not reflect Glasgow or its values.

The Code of Conduct must be fit for purpose in the face of the way misinformation can now be rapidly spread and used to stir up fear and division.

Our Parliament should be setting the highest standards. MSPs should be bringing people together and working to ease tensions, not inflaming them and trying to turn communities against each other.

There must be consequences when elected representatives use their platforms to spread disinformation and encourage the kind of reckless and racist behaviour that puts communities at risk.

Some of this has been whipped up and fuelled by Reform MSPs in particular, who have recklessly fanned the flames of prejudice and, in some cases, directly encouraged people to join mobs that are inflicting fear and intimidation on…

People have been targeted with harassment and violence on racial grounds, and organisations such as schools, housing associations and small businesses have been targeted for nothing more than teaching languages.

It is time to pause hyperscale data centre applications until councils have clear guidance, communities have certainty, and Scotland has a coherent national strategy to deal with them instead of a corporate free-for-all.

This is an important step by the SNP’s National Council, and I hope the Scottish Government now acts on it.

The public have a right to expect that their representatives in Parliament are working full time for them, not for private paymasters.

Parliament should not be treated as a route to personal enrichment.

It exposes the truth about who Reform UK are really working for.

At a time when millions of people are struggling with bills, rent and the cost of living, Nigel Farage and Reform UK MPs appear to have been using their public profile to get their noses as deep into the trough of dirty money as they can.

The question of whether Scotland is risking complicity in genocide could hardly be more serious or more urgent. The Economy Secretary must intervene.

Not having a policing-led or an authoritarian-led approach – but try and make sure that they’re exposed to other ideas, try and make sure that they’re not led down that path in a way that is going to wreck their lives as well as being…

Empowering communities, particularly the kind of community groups that organise to look after the interests of marginalised people like refugees and asylum seekers, community groups which create capacity and understanding and relations…

Scotland as a society should have been readier for events like we’ve seen over recent days.

I don’t think that happened.

Our Parliament has a crucial role to play in setting best and inclusive practice and ensuring a safe environment for everyone.

The ruling underlines how incoherent and stigmatising bathroom bans are and the pointless harm they do.

Rolling out the red carpet in this way and showing this cringe-worthy deference is just sickening.