@otfrom I have a lot of time for Humza Yousaf. He was a better First Minister than Swinney will ever be, and it is a loss to Scotland that he stood down.

#ScotPol

Pippa Crerar and colleague interviewing Nicola #Sturgeon for the Grauniad — and Sturgeon puts up a damned good defence of her record in government.

#ScotPol

Politics Weekly UK: Nicola Sturgeon on leadership, scandal and trolling the trolls

Episode webpage: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/series/politicsweekly

Media file: https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/11/06-61883-gdn.PW.07112025.hm.nicola_sturgeon.mp3

Pippa Crerar and colleague interviewing Nicola #Sturgeon for the Grauniad — and Sturgeon puts up a damned good defence of her record in government.

#ScotPol

Politics Weekly UK: Nicola Sturgeon on leadership, scandal and trolling the trolls

Episode webpage: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/series/politicsweekly

Media file: https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/11/06-61883-gdn.PW.07112025.hm.nicola_sturgeon.mp3

I'm quoted here, talking about the impact of foreign investors on Glasgow and Edinburgh and how they'll lead to profits being extracted from those cities rather than reinvested in its people.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25592649.glasgow-edinburgh-top-10-attractive-uk-cities-fdi/

#ScottishPolitics #ScotPol

Today's Common Weal Daily Briefing

Zohran Mamdani has shown that the rising tide of the Right can be turned back by a campaign of exciting progressive policies.

Many of his policies are ones that Common Weal has already campaigned for.

https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-rx5kn

#ScottishPolitics #ScotPol #USPolitics #NewYork

@onepict Indeed. And he's not alone. I'd also cite Stephen Flynn, although others may disagree. It seems to me that he's made himself a cosy niche in which he has influence and exposure without responsibility.

#ScotPol
#SNP

If you're interested in the reform of #CouncilTax -- which you should be -- there's a current consultation you can respond to, and should. It isn't, of course, nearly radical enough -- it's an exercise in turd-polishing, not in seriously trying to address the problem. But the more people who say so, the more likely we are to get real change.

#ScotPol

https://www.gov.scot/publications/consultation-future-council-tax-scotland/

"For nearly 20 years, the [ #SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.

When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT rights, they faltered and kicked the can down the road"

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25593550.snp-still-no-real-plan-people-scream-change/

I'm quoted here, talking about the impact of foreign investors on Glasgow and Edinburgh and how they'll lead to profits being extracted from those cities rather than reinvested in its people.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25592649.glasgow-edinburgh-top-10-attractive-uk-cities-fdi/

#ScottishPolitics #ScotPol

Today's Common Weal Daily Briefing

Zohran Mamdani has shown that the rising tide of the Right can be turned back by a campaign of exciting progressive policies.

Many of his policies are ones that Common Weal has already campaigned for.

https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-rx5kn

#ScottishPolitics #ScotPol #USPolitics #NewYork

@onepict Indeed. And he's not alone. I'd also cite Stephen Flynn, although others may disagree. It seems to me that he's made himself a cosy niche in which he has influence and exposure without responsibility.

#ScotPol
#SNP

If you're interested in the reform of #CouncilTax -- which you should be -- there's a current consultation you can respond to, and should. It isn't, of course, nearly radical enough -- it's an exercise in turd-polishing, not in seriously trying to address the problem. But the more people who say so, the more likely we are to get real change.

#ScotPol

https://www.gov.scot/publications/consultation-future-council-tax-scotland/

"For nearly 20 years, the [ #SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.

When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT rights, they faltered and kicked the can down the road"

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25593550.snp-still-no-real-plan-people-scream-change/

@neonsnake whether and how you organise the flow of value between the commune layer and the co-operative layer I don't know. My hope is that you wouldn't have to, that the gift economy can encompass the co-operatives which operate across the commune, but I'm not confident of this.

#ScotPol
#Communism
#Anarchism

"Scotland barely owns any of its own economy now. We are startlingly foreign owned. Our banks, our energy, our land, our supermarkets, our whisky industry – we work and we shop and we generate wealth and then the owners of these industries take the profit and ship it off overseas" -- Robin McAlpine

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25588386.graph-rocket-independence-movements-backside/

"Scotland barely owns any of its own economy now. We are startlingly foreign owned. Our banks, our energy, our land, our supermarkets, our whisky industry – we work and we shop and we generate wealth and then the owners of these industries take the profit and ship it off overseas" -- Robin McAlpine

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25588386.graph-rocket-independence-movements-backside/

The Left offers this, the Right offers Spite and Grift.
It's a shame there are no left media outlets to talk about this instead of White Nationalism

Oh, and the Scottish Greens are on Mastodon, unlike everyone else. They actually live it, rather than talk it.

#ScottishGreens#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#ScotPol#UBI#PublicTransport

The Left offers this, the Right offers Spite and Grift.
It's a shame there are no left media outlets to talk about this instead of White Nationalism

Oh, and the Scottish Greens are on Mastodon, unlike everyone else. They actually live it, rather than talk it.

#ScottishGreens#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#ScotPol#UBI#PublicTransport

> Fears SNP will shift to the left

good to see the fash afraid for a change