Chair - Living Rent Aberdeen | Climate and Social Justice Activist
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined August 2025
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🧵 I have seen and know a number of people considering applications for jobs at Holyrood. I’d urge people to think long and hard before applying.
Whilst such jobs can open doors, provide opportunities etc, there are risks. See this story in March👇
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Exclusive: Number of working class in creative industries falls
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With roughly four months of dark evenings every year, we need sufficient lighting for people to feel safe to enjoy Westburn Park throughout the winter months.
My team and I will continue to push for a plan to address public concerns. Contact your Cllrs.
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Seven out of 10 Scots want solar panels fitted on public buildings, survey finds.
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Scotland's first drug checking service opens doors
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This is what a data centre sounds like.
Locals gave officials in Carroll County, Kentucky, a free preview of what it’s like to live near a data centre when they played screeching recordings during a fiscal court meeting in October.
The county court had approved the construction of a hyperscale data centre campus costing more than $16bn earlier in the month, according to WKYT.
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“Tech billionaires… are not your constituents.”
Community organiser Katie Dapkus went viral last month after telling Kentucky city councillors that “the people could not be clearer” about rejecting data centres, unregulated AI, and surveillance technology.
Voters in at least 38 jurisdictions passed bans or restrictions on data centres in the US midterms elections.
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Australia and Turkey, co-hosts of this year’s COP31 climate summit, are facing scrutiny over plans to expand their coal industries.
In southeast Turkey, communities living near one of the country’s biggest coal mines say mining and burning Lignite is damaging their health and depleting vital water supplies.
So why are the countries hosting the world’s biggest climate talks still investing in one of the dirtiest fossil fuels?
This is a divisive and ridiculous piece of political theatre that has been easily debunked.
Personally, I find politicising the dead like this to be distasteful. Our elected representatives should be better than this.
The Scottish Government has questions to answer.
More than 207,000 fallen men and women are listed on the Scottish War Memorial's Roll of Honour.
Yesterday, the country fell silent at 11am to remember those to gave their lives for us.
Also at precisely 11am yesterday, the Scottish Government's X account published a post. Not about Remembrance Sunday, but about a Sikh festival. In fact, that account did not post to mark Remembrance Sunday at all.
Later in the day they also posted about climate change. But still, did not see it necessary to mark one of the most poignant days in our nation's calendar.
Bandi Chorr Divas is, of course, an important date for Sikhs. Indeed, it coinciding with Remembrance Sunday was the perfect opportunity for the Scottish Government to recognise the almost 200,000 Sikhs who were killed or injured fighting in the World Wars alongside allied forces.
They didn't do this. They chose to just ignore Remembrance Sunday altogether.
I have written to the Scottish Government for answers, not least in identifying who is responsible for showing such contempt and disrespect to our armed forces and veterans.
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Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison following his convictions for rape and sexual assault.
The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Bennathan, said the disgraced comedian was a "sexual predator" who used his celebrity status as protection until his behaviour was exposed in 2023 following reporting by Channel 4 Dispatches, The Times and Sunday Times newspapers.
He said Brand harboured a “casual arrogant disregard to any woman’s right to say no to you”, while his fame meant he believed “you could act when you liked and how you liked”.
In a series of powerful impact statements, one of his victims called him “a sexual predator who has no remorse for how his behaviour has impacted my life”.
Brand is expected to serve two-thirds of his prison sentence before being released on licence and will be on the sex offender’s register for life.
Those defending Russell Brand make me sick. Read the evidence and testimony of the woman he raped.
He was rightly convicted for his crimes.
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Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison - follow live bbc.in/4sQCkA3
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At the SNP's annual conference in Aberdeen last month, party members sent an unequivocal message to the Scottish Government – it’s time to ban LGBT+ conversion practices, writes James Walker ✍️
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When management are speaking corporate, workers know the reality on the ground 📣
It's you who keep companies running. You know what's really happening on the shop floor, so your voices should be heard by the bosses.
That's where union reps come in. Our reps make sure workers' voices are heard, hold employers to account and fight for solutions to the problems that matter.
And with the new Employment Rights Act giving trade unions greater rights of access to workplaces, there are more opportunities for workers to organise for change and build union strength 💪
If you want a say in what happens in your workplace, find out more about joining Unite: unitetheunion.org/why-join
#workersrights #employmentlaw #employmentrights #union #tradeunion
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Concerns have been raised that the SNP could lose power in Holyrood or fumble a potential snap General Election over John Swinney’s fossil fuel U-turn, The National can reveal 👇
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Backing new licenses won’t save jobs in a declining, mature basin, but it will put a wrecking ball through climate credibility.
Employment in Scotland supported by the oil and gas sector fell by a third since 2014 - despite hundreds of new licenses being awarded.
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It has been a long time since an Aberdonian won the SAY Award (Scottish Album of the Year)! Honoured to have lent my vocals for a track on this smashing album by Vagrant Real Estate. A huge congratulations and so deeply deserved! heraldscotland.com/news/2670…
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A former Holyrood committee convener has branded a decision to award 20 per cent wage rises as "tone deaf" - and warned it will "only increase public cynicism towards the political class".
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In Scotland, much of the debate about oil and gas understandably centres on jobs. But as high emitting nation, there is an enhanced onus on us to deliver climate justice. It’s estimated that Rosebank alone could be linked to around 57,000 excess heat deaths globally by 2100.
