Public services or private profit?
Green Finance spokesperson Gavin Corbett laments the revival of proposals to privatise management of council facilities. It’s about haggis, isn’t it? Five years ago, before I became a councillor, the city council was on the cusp of handing over the running of schools, community centres, offices, depots and so on to the private sector. The…
IndyRef: one year on
On this day one year ago, people in Scotland woke to find out the result of the independence referendum. Thousands of them chose to channel the energy of the debate, and their the political engagement they felt after the result, into the Scottish Green Party.
Changing the way housing is “done”
Edinburgh needs to change the way housing is “done” argues STEVE BURGESS This week voters go to the polls in the Leith Walk by-election. I’m sure votes will be cast on many different grounds. On schools or on transport. On the state of the streets or on local services. Perceptions of the candidates will come…
Putting people in charge of budgets
It’s time for “participatory budgeting” to move up a notch argues SUSAN RAE. I cannot ever imagine a time when participatory budgeting will be sexy. I’d love to see a march on the city chambers with banners declaiming “We demand participatory budgeting! Now!”. But I concede I might wait a while. It’s a pity, in…
Leith Walk is unique!
Green candidate for the Leith Walk by-election, Susan Rae, argues that there is nowhere quite like Leith Walk. As a local resident, naturally, I think Leith Walk is unique. Nowhere else has quite the same mix of people, local businesses and community groups in such a compact area. Now the council ward of the same…