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Image on green background of person in a suit, with money bag covering their head, pointing. Tax reads: Scots say, tax the richest more now

25 Mar 2025

Scots say: increase taxes on the richest, rather than make cuts to public spending
Image of layers of GBP bank notes laying on a flat surface

18 Mar 2025

UK social security cut while ballooning bank balances of richest get off scot-free
Image of a thermostat on a wall

12 Mar 2025

Ministers must turn up the heat, not freeze progress on clean heat transition
35-year-old Nadia Zahad, a refugee from the Sudan war, sits on the edge of a bed inside a tent in South Sudan. Her son Ismail is on her lap.

6 Mar 2025

Scottish Government funding offers vital relief for refugees fleeing Sudan
Refugee Asia* washing her hand at an Oxfam supported WASH facility at their shelter at the transit center in Renk

2 Mar 2025

Scotland must reject Keir Starmer's back-sliding on foreign aid
Children and their families walking in single file through the rubble of destroed buildings in Northern Gaza

26 Feb 2025

Scottish Government must stop bankrolling Gaza implicated arms firms

20 Feb 2025

Scottish Government’s shelving of national care commitment is a ‘slap in the face’ to carers
Private jet on runway at sunset

19 Feb 2025

First Minister offers ‘in principle support’ of private jet tax
Image of a lane leading to council houses. Blue sky and view over the rest of the town below

11 Feb 2025

Council Tax: Ministers must stop delaying and lay out roadmap to real reform
Traffic jame of cars

30 Jan 2025

Scotland’s climate commitments are stalling, and time is running out
Green image with helicopter, private jet and super yacht and money. Text reads: Billionaire wealth soard three times faster in 2024. World now on track for at least 5 trillionaires within a decade.

20 Jan 2025

We need a tax system that helps deliver a fairer Scotland
Private jet sitting on the tarmac with blue sky

10 Jan 2025

MSPs urged to back private jet tax as world’s richest 1% burn through their entire annual carbon limit in just 10 days