Patrick Harvie

Glasgow

Writer and Columnist at The National (Scotland)

Glasgow's Green MSP (he/him) Posts here are now mostly by my staff team. I'm also at @[email protected] where it's all much nicer!

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Patrick Harvie to stand down as co-leader of Scottish Greens

2 weeks ago | bright-green.org | Chris Jarvis |Patrick Harvie |Scottish Greens

Patrick Harvie has announced he will be standing down as co-leader of the Scottish Green Party. A leadership election is scheduled to take place for the co-leadership of the party this summer and Harvie has confirmed that he won’t be a candidate. Harvie has had a decades-long position at the forefront of the Scottish Greens.
Patrick Harvie: Whoever succeeds me must continue building on our record results

2 weeks ago | thenational.scot | Patrick Harvie

Green party co-convener Patrick Harvie at the launch of a Scottish Greens campaign IT’S been a genuine honour to be elected and re-elected as Glasgow’s Green MSP, and I can hardly believe that it’s nearly 17 years since I was first elected to a leadership position within the Scottish Greens. Since then ,I have had the privilege of being able to watch the party grow, not only in terms of our MSPs, councillors and membership, but also in terms of our prominence and our impact.
Patrick Harvie: Axing plan to help people switch to clean heating is wrong move

1 month ago | thenational.scot | Patrick Harvie

TO say the last few years have been tough is an understatement. Energy prices have soared, and remain on an upward curve with more price rises due in April. Far too many families are already struggling, and with Labour planning benefit cuts too, the outlook is bleak. People deserve to know that the Scottish Government has their backs, and in many previous times, that has been the case.
Patrick Harvie: ‘It’s time to listen to the voices under-represented in our society’

Jan 11, 2025 | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Patrick Harvie

The rise of toxic, far-right voices continued during 2024 and now poses a serious threat to democracy here and around the world. It’s being fuelled by the super-rich who want their own power to be uncontrolled and unaccountable. The US inauguration this month will be one more step down this dangerous path, but it has been paved for years by a media landscape mostly owned and controlled by billionaires, platforming so-called ‘populists’ at every opportunity.
Patrick Harvie: The super-rich will always be willing to enable fascism

Jan 10, 2025 | thenational.scot | Patrick Harvie

DOWN through the ages people have recognised that money is power. Since modern democracies arose they may have mitigated that injustice, but they have never overcome it. But it’s when the concentration of wealth reaches extreme levels that this problem reaches crisis point, and today this is happening once again.
Patrick Harvie column: Glasgow needs a £2 bus price cap

Nov 30, 2024 | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Patrick Harvie

Patrick Harvie (Image: Sourced) Glasgow deserves world class public transport, but everyone who uses it can see that it’s badly letting us down. From the confusing patchwork of fares to services that are inadequate or absent, we’re far behind other European cities. I rely on bike, bus and train to get around, and I see the shortcomings every day. Our buses are where the biggest problems lie.
SNP are betraying tenants with watered down rent controls

Nov 8, 2024 | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Patrick Harvie

SNP are betraying tenants with watered down rent controls (Image: Newsquest) THE SNP Government has finally confirmed how it plans to change the new Housing Bill and its system of rent controls, and for every tenant of a private landlord the news is not good.
Patrick Harvie: Donald Trump does not deserve the First Minister's welcome

Nov 7, 2024 | thenational.scot | Patrick Harvie

As dangerous as the president-elect is, we are not immune to him or the toxic politics that he stands for (Image: Leon Neal) DONALD Trump’s proclaimed love of Scotland has always been something of an embarrassment to people all across our country. But the reality is that as dangerous as the president-elect is, we are not immune to him or the toxic politics that he stands for.
Patrick Harvie: Free bus travel for asylum seekers would be life changing

Oct 19, 2024 | glasgowtimes.co.uk | Patrick Harvie

GLASGOW is a diverse city with a long and proud history of welcoming refugees and asylum seekers. People across our city have shown an incredible amount of solidarity and hospitality over the years. We saw it clear as day when friends and neighbours took to the streets to stand up to the Home Office on Kenmure Street, and we see it consistently within our neighbourhoods and local organisations every day.
We will be judged on our failure to stop genocide, says Patrick Harvie

Oct 4, 2024 | thenational.scot | Patrick Harvie

John Swinney has continued to back calls for a ceasefire and statehood for Palestine “WHOEVER stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us.” These were the words written on a whiteboard in a hospital in Gaza. The doctor who wrote them, Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila of Médecins Sans Frontières, was killed alongside two of his colleagues by an Israeli air strike, while trying to save lives. The doctors working in Gaza are heroes.