So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
Screenshot of the cover of the report, 'Justice That Works: Report of the Scottish Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission.'
NEW: the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ final report and recommendations have been published today.
As one of the Commissioners, this year has involved an enormous amount of work. Our report sets out an agenda for change.
๐ link to report
www.gov.scot/publications...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeareโs Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
A documentary capturing Glasgowโs resistance to a Home Office immigration raid has won a major international award at this yearโs Sundance Film Festival
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Orkney Council has confirmed all profits from its new wind farm will go into local services - wealth will circulate locally, not flow to distant shareholders.
It's a glimpse of what community benefit from renewables can look like. But how typical is this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I just donated to Believe in Scotlandโs Annual Crowdfunder โ
Leadership is about listening and empowering people.
By working together, our movement can be a force for good. ๐
View of Loch Long surrounded by wooded hills under a clear sky. Overlaid text reads: โLoch polluted by radioactive waste from nuclear bomb plant.โ
๐ด NEW: Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UKโs nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal.
Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...
Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why.
This week's column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
BBC Radio Scotland reframing rent controls as the market working under different conditions actually made me laugh out loud. Homes are for living not profiteering or protecting the market or anything elseโฆliving, providing safe, affordable housing is a necessity greens.scot/save-rent-co...
Weโre running another pilot this Autumn.
(It would be silly not to considering our last one was 100% successful!)
If anyone wants to take part they can find out more below. โฌ๏ธ
www.4dayweek.co.uk/national-pil...
A graphic and a report from cover which says 'Briefing: The Poverty Premium in Credit'. Followed by a Fair By Design logo and then text from the briefing.
Many people on low incomes face limited access to affordable credit.
Weโre calling for fairer alternatives, including a Fair Banking Act and No Interest Loan Schemes.
Check out our new briefing on credit, setting out the problems and the solutions.
fairbydesign.com/wp-content/u...
I'm disgusted that contractors have demolished protected bird nesting sites during the breeding season in Burntisland.
Forth Ports need to come clean about whether they ordered contractors to take the old BiFab hanger down killing flightless juvenile birds and destroying dozens of nesting sites.
Tesco's chief executive, Ken Murphy, was paid 431 times more than a typical Tesco worker.
They said: โWe remain committed to a competitive and fair reward package for all colleagues."
Sorry - what???
Incredibly concerned to see the forcible interception of the Madleen in international waters, and thinking of all those who were on board and have been detained. UK must condemn this breach of international law and immediately demand their release.
Rachel Reeves vs reality: The economics of the two-child cap youtu.be/b3GFjLR0Wjs?... The government claims it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple economic analysis shows that these benefits pay for themselves.
If you asked child poverty charities 5 years ago what they thought they would be doing in the first years of a post-tory labour government, I bet they wouldn't say this...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Whatever U.K. Labour tells Anas to believe in but thereโs plenty he cannot get to grips with - less migration but nae social care or further education changes to manage the gaps. Disnae want council tax, social security, land reform or anything that could make a difference to people of Scotland
All of us.... every single last one of us... are descended from immigrants. And without it, this country would just be a bunch of uninhabited islands on the edge of the world. Everything that built this country... and everything it is... springs from that. And we should embrace it, not decry it.
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Green Party leadership hopeful @zackpolanski.bsky.social talks about the Partyโs councillor gains, future plans and more. Plus we delve into the ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐ง tariff deal and the conflict with ๐ต๐ฐ
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Peak Rail Fare Scrapped For Good. Scottish Greens.
๐จ BREAKING: From September 1st peak rail fares will be scrapped for good in Scotland!
๐ข2023: Greens scrap peak rail fares.
๐ก2024: SNP bring them back
๐ก2024: thousands join Green and trade union calls for the SNP to reverse their decision
๐ข2025: SNP reverse their decision
Anas Sarwar MSP, leader of the UK Labour Partyโs Scottish branch office, during the June 2024 UK general election promising that if Labour were elected they would save the jobs at the Grangemouth refinery. They didnโt and itโs closing.
But remember, Labour will save the jobs at Grangemouth refinery.
why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
In one case a landlord tried to raise rent by a staggeringly unaffordable 121%, from ยฃ520 to ยฃ1150!
Over the last year the rent cap has kept increases to a maximum of 12%. But the SNP allowed it to expire this morning.
They must reinstate the renters protections immediately.
๐จ Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. ๐จ
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.๐๏ธ
๐ www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Scotland does not need nuclear power stations because we are already able to meet Scotlandโs energy needs and power 1.4million homes in England! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/03/27/l...
Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why wonโt she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice thatโs causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK
It doesn't matter if it is Rwanda, or Balkans, it doesn't matter if it is classed as offshoring or outsourcing and it doesn't matter if it is Tories or Labour doing it, shipping people who were seeking safety to a random third country is inhumane, and potentially illegal.
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