Good to chat with Scotland’s top trade unionist ⁦Roz Foyer⁩ for the Podcast today. We talk…

🪧the state of the union movement
💵 tax and spend
🗳️ thoughts on Scottish politics
🥱 work/life balance bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Good to chat with Green MSP ⁦Ross Greer⁩ this week. We talk

🗳️ why he’s happy to take on SNP at general elex
🟢 greens in govt
🗣️ does hate crime law criminalise being an “***hole”?
🪧 backing disruptive protest
✝️a potential future as a minister bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

NEW: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar tells me UK sales of arms to Israel should end today, saying he believes Israel have “clearly” breached international law.

Going slightly further than UK labour position.

Green minister Lorna Slater on hate crime complaint numbers:

“I think we can be pretty confident that many of these complaints are vexatious complaints from people who are frustratingly seeking to waste police time”

Adds law doesn’t outlaw saying “meanspirited” things #bbcgms

Nicola Sturgeon 'veering away' from backing assisted dying in Scotland.

Humza Yousaf, Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar also inclined not to back it.

It'll be a free vote, and supporters confident on numbers, but that's a lot of influential names opposed

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Great to be on the most recent Newscast to try and delve into Scotland’s hate crime act in a bit more depth.

What does it do? We hear from ⁦PeatWorrier⁩

And Susan Smith from For Women Scotland outlines her concerns bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

JK Rowling hate crime tweets not criminal - police bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

Scotland's new hate crime law - James Cook explains in 90 seconds

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Nice to have Philip Sim back from parental leave (one day only!) for the podcast today

We talk…

🏠 renting with Georgina Hayes

🗣️hate crime

🎂 Humza Yousaf’s FM anniversary

And is scotland going to pass a law on assisted dying?

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EXC: Tory MSP Stephen Kerr has resigned from Holyrood's standards committee, saying he's not able to be 'unbiased' on Michael Matheson.

Mr Kerr says 'it would have been wrong [to sit on the committee] having made so many public pronouncements' calling on Mr Matheson to resign