With record results across the country, it has been a successful general election for the Scottish Greens and a big step towards securing record numbers of MSPs in 2026 and councillors in 2027. 

The party has significantly grown its vote across Scotland after a campaign that saw them stand a record 44 candidates.

Patrick Harvie hails record general election result

The Labour Party has chosen to continue with Tory cuts to public services rather than fairer taxes on the super-rich, says Scottish Greens finance spokesperson, Ross Greer MSP.

Mr Greer, who has accused the new Chancellor of using the Conservative soundbites playbook to justify more of the same disastrous cuts, called for wealth taxes on the super rich to fund the services we all rely on.

Ross Greer calls for wealth taxes instead of Labour cuts

Shifting to a 4 day work week with no loss of pay could transform millions of lives and improve workers’ rights in the UK, say the Scottish Greens. 

The party has urged employers across the country to support the 4UGUST initiative by the 4 Day Week campaign and Autonomy think tank, by trialling a four day work week this month for their workers.

As part of the Bute House Agreement that saw the party entering government, the Scottish Greens won support for a series of four day week trials across different Scottish Government departments, and are urging other employers to do the same.

Maggie Chapman calls for employers to trial four day work week

The Green Party of England and Wales now has four MPs in Parliament, and even more impressively has doubled its vote share to 7%, coming second in 39 other seats. So what happens now? How will the Greens exercise their new agency in government, and how can they navigate a biased media landscape and increase their influence?

Aaron is joined by Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party and MP for Bristol Central, to talk about the challenges ahead.

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20 years ago, released “Fuck The Hook” and most, if not all of the the social problems are still relevant.

The track I’ve produced is a tribute in itself, to skinny and his master piece, pointing out the abysmal shit, that’s happing in this country.

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The Scottish Greens will put forward a motion for debate in Parliament on Wednesday which challenges the SNP to use the powers at their disposal in the upcoming budget to protect Scotland from Westminster cuts and to address the nation's social, economic and environmental problems.

Ross Greer calls for Scottish budget to centre people and planet

The Labour government must tax the super-rich and polluters to fund our green transition and tackle the climate and nature emergencies, say the Scottish Greens.

Speaking ahead of today’s UK Budget statement, the party’s Co-leader, Lorna Slater, has urged the Chancellor to apply a wealth tax on the wealthiest 1% of households in the UK – those with assets worth £3.4 million and above.

Lorna Slater calls for UK government to use wealth taxes to boost services

The Scottish Government must urgently ramp up climate action and show an environmental leadership that has been lacking, says Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell ahead of today’s vote on the Climate Change Bill.

The bill, which will amend 2030 climate targets that the UK Climate Change Committee has said are unachievable, can only be supported if the Scottish Government commits to accelerated climate action after years of collective failure.

Mark Ruskell calls for Scottish Government to show climate leadership

There must be no state visit for Donald Trump, says Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie who has denounced the President-elect as “a clear and present danger to equality and our climate.”

Mr Harvie’s warning comes as reports suggest that Downing Street is preparing to offer Mr Trump a second state visit, following the one he made in 2019.

Patrick Harvie opposes any state visit for Donald Trump

Beatrice speaks with John Pring about how welfare privatization and calls to cut benefits in the name of reducing waste, fraud and abuse hollowed out the welfare state in the UK and directly led to the deaths of welfare recipients, and about his new book The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence.

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Son of James: is a London based Hip Hop artist and producer with a penchant for Urban Rhythms and Vintage Studio Sounds.

           He is, he says with some pride, “A West Country Cockney,” born in Hackney, his early years were spent either, immersed in the Hue & Cry of the city's East End; which was his Fathers’ world, or “running around the arse end of nowhere,” which is how he remembers the time spent living with his Mother in Sharpness, a small port town on the banks of the River Severn. His parents' separation had left his mother broken; a fact not lost on her son, and this was where they landed when the dust had settled. Among his earliest and fondest memories are days spent writing poetry, so young  that he doesn't remember how old he actually was, while his mother busied herself around the house and working any jobs she could to get by, she was always singing, a little sadly perhaps but all the same her angelic voice stays with him to this day. Looking back he sees this as a magical time, a time that undoubtedly sparked his love of wordplay and music.

Perhaps predictably, a troubled adolescence lay in store for the young man. Forays into music production were short lived, and overshadowed by other less acceptable interests, and eventually after having had one brush too many with the local plod, who now had him unfairly but firmly in their sights, and also falling foul of some of the towns criminal element, the time came to leave Nowheresville, in a hurry!

Back in London and reunited with his sister, ‘Egg,’ who once again took on the mothering role, providing stability,support and guidance, he embarked on a new phase in life, one that would lead him into adulthood. It was around this period in 2010 that he really began to cut his musical teeth, the UK Hip Hop scene was exploding and he was listening to and trying to emulate artists and producers such as ( Roastbeatz, Leaf Dog, Pete Cannon, Ghosttown, Dj Premier, J Dilla, Pete Rock, The Alchemist, )  in early sonic experiments on a broken down laptop, using a cracked version of Ableton. Initially he limited his releases to instrumental tracks, anxiety and childhood trauma silenced his voice, kept him quiet

His music is still very much rooted in the homegrown Hip Hop Drum’n Bass tradition, using sampled rhythms and manufactured sound drawn from a panoply of cultural sources to create new and unique textures, an urban groove, it's like pulling on the threads or getting lost in the folds of the great tapestry that is life in the Capital.

Today, Son of James is no longer silent, there's just too much that needs to be said, there's too much inequality and division, so much that needs calling out. His lyrics are often deeply personal and heartfelt, provocative and uncompromising, yet incisive. Pithy social commentary combines with a sharp satirical wit and a love of people, but a marked distrust of the systems by which we’re forced to live. Son of James is a uniquely English voice, drawing back the curtain just a fraction, so as to throw a little light on the madness of our time.

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

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