A campaign has been launched by a coalition of community-owned renewable energy hubs to distribute Scotland’s natural resources more evenly

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The ICJ is considering the South African application that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza again tomorrow. These are some of the binding provisional measures that the ICJ told Israel it must implement. I'm not going to get ahead of the court, but I think it's pretty clear

This could have been prevented with a reform of Council Tax, replacing it with a proportional Property Tax, and then extending it to also tax land.

See The Common Weal's paper here: commonweal.scot/policies/taxin…

How to improve local democracy in Scotland.

A short and important 🧵

A senior Israeli Govt Minister is being explicit. They want to occupy Gaza and expel people from their homes.

There is nothing 'voluntary' about turning people's homes to rubble and making their land uninhabitable, thereby forcing them to leave.

It is called ethnic cleansing.

Obviously have to wait to see the legislation but if they are capable of doing this (and the compensation able to be treated as a separate issue) then the question is:

Why didn't the Scottish Government do something about this YEARS ago when it was made aware?

You have 8 days left to submit your thoughts to Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee on the Land reform (Scotland) Bill andywightman.scot/2024/05/land-r…

Two points for Anas Sarwar and Scottish Labour.

1 - In Scotland, they're called provosts, not mayors.

2 - Elected provosts will centralise local power, not decentralise national power.

commonweal.scot/provosts/

How much of a threat do *you* pose to the UK? Give yourself one point for every box ticked.

Someone reminded me of that thread today, so ill tell you something.

I live in Finland now. Some time ago I left my job hoping to get another one. It didn't worked out and I became unemployed.

(A secondary thread).

I have submitted my written evidence to the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee on its Stage 1 scrutiny of the Land reform (Scotland) Bill. Read my blog for more info. Summary thread follows 1/8 andywightman.scot/2024/05/land-r…

If you read my piece about *initial* proposals for new Holyrood boundaries, you may recall that regardless of which regional scenario applied, constituency changes made 2021 a notional SNP majority (vs current boundaries):

SNP: 66 (+2)
Con : 30 (-1)
Lab: 21 (-1)
Grn: 8
LD: 4

So many people are enjoying the Aurorae, both Northern (Borealis) and Southern (Australis!). But, surely you want to know how amazing the science is? This short🧵is about the atomic origins of the green and red light. 1/10

Dr Craig Dalȝell Brilliant work Craig. Here in Campbeltown we've seen 1st hand the consequences of bunging global companies a shed load of cash for them to accept & then bugger off. It's time our Scottish Government Finance and Economy sat up & changed a failed paradigm Kate Forbes MSP

A wee round of updating the blog at TheCommonGreen.scot with my recent articles and other public work.

In particular, you can now read and watch my Provocation at Community Land Scotland's Own Yersel conference on Friday.

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