My heartfelt thanks to every single MSP and campaigner who rallied to the Unbuyable Bill.
You amplified the reality of brave survivors who spoke out to help the next wee girls from being targeted, groomed and trafficked into sexual exploitation.
Parliament ignoring survivors to shield and embolden sex buyers is to its shame.
Yesterday, the law did not yet change but it is clear that shame has now changed sides.
You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.
Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.
And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
“If passed, Regan’s Unbuyable Bill will not end prostitution overnight, but it will send a clear signal to the criminals who exploit vulnerable women and the pathetic men who purchase sex that the women of Scotland are not for sale.
If Swinney is sincere about making Scotland the best it can be and protecting women and girls, he must offer his backing to Ash Regan’s Bill, or at the very least, allow his MSPs a free vote on February 3. Anything less would be to ignore the screams of those women trapped in the hell of Scotland’s sex trade.”
@DalgetySusan writes about @AshReganMSP #Unbuyable Bill ⬇️
This is an extraordinary moment, and not in a good way.
The Scottish Information Commissioner has been forced to take the Scottish Government to the Court of Session for refusing to comply with a lawful Freedom of Information ruling. Not misunderstanding it. Not appealing it. Ignoring it.
This is the first time this has ever happened.
Freedom of Information is not a suggestion. It is not a favour granted by ministers when reputational risk is low. It is a statutory obligation that exists precisely to stop power marking its own homework.
When a government misses deadline after deadline, even after formal warning of legal action, it is no longer a question of administration. It is a question of attitude.
Delay becomes defiance.
For those of us running charities, this is deeply uncomfortable to watch. We operate under relentless scrutiny. Every decision, invoice and governance choice must withstand inspection. Non-compliance is not shrugged off as a misunderstanding. It carries consequences.
Yet here we have a government apparently prepared to test how far it can ignore the very transparency rules it enforces on everyone else.
That is not a minor procedural failure. It is institutional arrogance.
Freedom of Information only works if those in power accept that it limits them. When a government treats disclosure as optional, accountability collapses into performance.
This is not about party politics or personalities. It is about whether Scotland still believes that public office comes with duties, not just authority.
When the independent regulator has to ask the highest court in the land to compel basic compliance, the problem is not the paperwork.
The problem is power that has grown too comfortable with being unanswerable.
And once a government decides the rules do not apply to it, trust is not eroded gradually.
It breaks.
The NHS hides horrors,
300,000 violent & sexual assaults in hospitals (2022-2025).
24,000 sexual incidents against staff. Rapes & assaults on vulnerable patients all covered up, ignored.
This petition only has 21,193 signatures ? 😞
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Wives, mothers, daughters, sisters killed by husbands, fathers, sons,bothers in 2025.
1 woman every 3 days are killed in the U.K. that means we’ll lose 8 more before the end of the year
Stop looking to pin it on where the killer is from, pin it to the gender