Podcast: Sarah Beattie-Smith and Adam Ramsay talk tax
Sarah Beattie-Smith, lead candidate for the Scottish Greens in the South of Scotland, and journalist Adam Ramsay discuss tax in the Scottish Parliament campaign and how green proposals fare up…
The Scottish Greens’ 60p rate and taking inequality seriously
Image: The Scottish Greens have launched their tax proposals today, radically reforming both income tax and local government taxation. The proposals are detailed, and worth looking at in detail –…
Scottish Greens announce plan to treble tax on biggest houses
Image: Dave Connor, Flickr The Scottish Green Party announced today their plans to reform taxation within the life of the next Scottish Parliament, including major tax increases for the wealthiest.…
Edinburgh students make divestment camp outside Principal’s Office
Edinburgh University People & Planet with supporters at Old College today. Image: Mike Shaw On the day the last coal-fired power station in Scotland shuts down, students at the University…
Victories worth celebrating: Scotland passes two new laws to rein in property owners
Tenant campaigners at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday. Image: Ric Lander The fourth Scottish Parliament gave its final seal of approval to a new land reform bill and legislation to…
Podcast: A chat with John Finnie, Maggie Chapman and co. at Scottish Greens conference
Left to right: Maggie Chapman, Adam Ramsay, Alys Mumford, John Finnie MSP, Isla O'Reilly, Peter McColl For our second podcast Bright Green visited the 2016 Scottish Greens Spring Conference for…
Who will the new Green MSPs be?
A poll came out this week which gave the Greens nine or ten MSPs. In a parliament where most SNP seats will be held by those already there, and Labour…
40 years on: the Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
In 40 years deer numbers have increased by 250,000. Image: Keith Laverack I was lucky enough to see the excellent production of ‘The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black…
Scotland’s voting system stooshie is about politics, not maths
Image: Wikimedia Commons Much of the brawl about D'Hondt isn't really about D'Hondt. What it's really about, it seems to me, is the relative importance of an SNP majority vs…
Elections of 2016: a statistical look ahead
Photo: Wikimedia So, it’s 2016. For followers of British politics, it will be a crowded year. In May, we have significant electoral contests in Scotland, Wales, London and Northern Ireland,…