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We know illnesses related to heart and lung issues affect too many families in Scotland.

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…

Ministers are giving active consideration as to whether the Scottish Government should provide planning guidance to balance the interest in developing hyperscale data centres with national energy and climate goals, which are vital to our…

The Scottish Government should never have been funding these war profiteers in the first place, and the Scottish Greens will do all we can to ensure that they never do again.

If a company is profiting from Israel's genocide, then they should not see a single penny of public funding.

By arming and supporting the Israeli military, these companies have made themselves complicit in the devastation of Gaza, the suffering of Palestinians and some of the gravest war crimes of this century.

On this Ukrainian Independence Day, Scotland reaffirms its solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

Men, in particular, must challenge sexism, confront abusive behaviour and help create a culture where every woman and girl can live free from violence, abuse and fear.

But the scale and persistence of violence against women and girls shows that we must go further and faster.

This week has witnessed one economic warning after another – with the UK looking set for higher prices at the pumps this September, even higher energy bills come October and food prices soaring ahead of Christmas.

Good vibes and good social media will do nothing to ease the cost of living crisis for families – the Burnham government needs to urgently set out how they intend to put money in people’s pockets.

The next damaging wave of Westminster’s cost of living tsunami is about to hit and yet all summer Andy Burnham has had his head firmly planted in the sand.

I want us to unite the country. It is not about uniting the right, it is about uniting our country.

If we get a hung parliament and people see that the parties can’t form a government, you have another election.