Alex Salmond resigns
It’s no secret that the Scottish Green Party and I haven’t always agreed with Alex Salmond about a range of policy issues, but nobody in Scottish politics can doubt his commitment to the cause of...
View ArticleDaily Record blog on independence referendum aftermath
On Thursday I took to social media to share examples of goodwill between Yes and No campaigners. I’d been so impressed by the overwhelmingly positive debate that’s taken place, and dismayed at the...
View ArticleGlasgow Now blog on the Green Surge and party conference
I write this in the middle of a hectic week. Anyone who thought that politics might quieten down after the referendum was very much mistaken. My party is currently in the hurried process of putting...
View ArticleDaily Record blog on Assisted Suicide Bill
Over more than a decade there have been attempts to raise the issue of assisted suicide at both Westminster and Holyrood. A number of distressing cases have hit the headlines over the years in which...
View ArticleEvening Times column on Shelter Scotland’s campaign to Make Renting Right
This week I was one of many MSPs who backed Shelter Scotland’s campaign about the need to improve private rented housing. It’s an issue I’ve worked on for several years, most recently with my own...
View ArticleDaily Record blog on the out-going and in-coming First Ministers
Though I spent a lot of the last two years arguing that the referendum campaign was not about any one individual, I cannot deny the impact that the out-going First Minister had on the independence...
View ArticleEvening Times column: Why TTIP spells danger for us
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is the long and boring name that’s been given to a dramatic corporate power grab that is currently being negotiated between Europe and the United...
View ArticleDaily Record blog on The Smith Commission
SO the report of the Smith Commission on Devolution goes too far for some people , and not far enough for others . Who could have guessed? It was inevitable that the parties which campaigned for a Yes...
View ArticleEvening Times column on the Save Our Steps campaign
Friday saw the deadline for public objections to a proposal which will have a major impact on Glasgow city centre, but which the large majority of people have still heard nothing about. When the...
View ArticleEvening Times column: Serious additional powers for Scotland
First there was Devo Max, the brand of devolution everyone had heard of but whose secret ingredients were carefully guarded. Then there was The Vow, a commitment to new powers that was supposed to be...
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