I was delighted to take part in the Scottish Parliament Great Get Together in order to honour the memory of Jo Cox MP. This June should have been Jo Cox’s 44th birthday – but a person filled with hate and prejudice took her life. We must always remember, as Jo Cox herself said in […]
I have raised a motion in the Scottish Parliament calling for strategic state support for the oil and gas industry. The industry has been quick to make workers bear the brunt of recent economic downturns, and this is not in the best interest of anyone apart from companies making profit from cutting terms and […]
The Holocaust is an event in human history that should not be forgotten. Millions of people lost their lives in Nazi extermination camps. Gena Turgel MBE was a survivor – she survived the Kraków ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. She spent much of her life afterwards sharing her testimony with hundreds of thousands of young […]
If we are to tackle bad health and obesity then we must do more to become a Good Food Nation and I was delighted to catch up with campaigners from the Scottish Food Coalition to hear their views on how we do that. The campaigners are calling for a Good Food Nation Bill, […]
I raised the £2 million of cuts in the Fife secondary school education budget during Portfolio Questions in the Scottish Parliament, asking the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills what he was going to do to address them, as well as what support the Scottish Government is giving our education system so that it delivers […]
Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Alex Rowley has raised concerns in the Scottish Parliament over the decision of the Gambling Commission to refuse to adopt a maximum stake of £2 on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). Dubbed the “crack cocaine” of gambling, FOBTs allow gamblers in high street betting shops to bet up to £100 […]
Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Alex Rowley has shown his support for WWF’s Earth Hour campaign and urges people across the region to do the same this coming Saturday at 8.30pm by switching off their lights for one hour to raise awareness of environmental concerns and climate change. Hundreds of millions of people around the […]
The Scottish Government have launched a consultation on Electoral Reform. One of the things they are looking at is the question of Electronic Voting and Internet Voting. You can access the consultation and submit a response if you want to add your views by clicking here. I spoke in a debate in Parliament on the […]
I have been contacted by a large number of constituents concerned that Fergus Ewing MSP, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity, has reportedly said that Scotland will not participate in any ban on live exports that is proposed in Westminster. If Fergus Ewing has said this, then it is my view he is […]
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJfiOaKsH_8[/embedyt] The Scottish Parliament recently debated the development of a Scottish healthy weight strategy, and, as has become usual in these debates, we saw warm words across the chamber from all parties saying how positive it would be to tackle these health concerns in Scotland. But it is time that we called out […]