MAgazine
Information is still not free enough
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Scotland is still breaching your right to environmental justice
A UN Commission has found that Scotland remains in breach of your right to environmental justice. Here is why having adequate means of upholding your rights is as important as the rights themselves.
Escaping the bonds of bonds
The world has passed a tipping point and we can no longer see bond markets as facilitating democracy. They are an active threat to democracy and we need to disempower them.
Solidarity is dangerous
The power of the efforts to break the blockade of Gaza is seen as an act of futility by some. It isn’t; it’s an act of solidarity and it is powerful because of that.
An Illusionary Convention
John Swinney is proposing a ‘constitutional convention’, but what he is proposing is no such thing. Understanding the original Constitutional Convention offers a real way forward for independence.
The one Keir Starmer policy I want to see implemented in Scotland
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How the EPC system makes building eco-houses harder
A guest article from supporter Michael Breslin on how his attempt to build an eco-house was penalised by the broken Energy Performance Certificate system.
Liberals caused political crisis on immigration – not just far right
How liberals opened the door to the right-wing’s amplification of the perception of an immigration crisis.
Three years of learning
The case for a bit more stoicism
The one thing we all know is that being in touch with your feelings is good for you. Except the evidence is actually much more in the other direction and it is not clear our obsession with being ‘true to our emotions’ is helping us one little bit.
Still profiting from vulnerable children
Legislation to help children in care is finally with us 11 years late. But it protects more profit-extracting loopholes than it closes.
Moral Outrage - and rightly so
Rolling the dice with housing-again
Will Britain never understand the difference between making housing affordable and subsidising unaffordable housing to prop up the profits of developers? Apparently not...
Rolling the dice with housing-again
Will Britain never understand the difference between making housing affordable and subsidising unaffordable housing to prop up the profits of developers? Apparently not...
Lessons from New York
Democratic Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani comfortably beat out billionaire-backed billionaire Andrew Cuomo, by 56% to 44% in the final round after vote transfers. Unlike Cuomo, his campaign centred around clearly articulated demands that reflected the needs of the people of New York.
What I learned from the school that made my children
My last child leaves primary school and it gives me a moment to reflect on what our little rural primary school has achieved. There are lessons to be learned for all public policy.
Scotland is not for sale Pt. I
Scotland may not be privatising the public realm with quite the zeal of Starmer’s Labour, but it is happening constantly nonetheless. A vision for a public good-driven democracy is needed.
How Common Weal helped reform care
Craig Dalzell looks at the Care Reform (Scotland) Bill - what remains of the National Care Service Bill - and compares it to Common Weal’s own work to see how many of our proposals made it into the final Bill.
Information, “efficiency” and the Care Reform Bill – a missed opportunity
Nick Kempe looks at the portion of the Care Reform (Scotland) Bill and discusses the missed opportunity to reform how information is gathered in the care sector and how it could be used to improve care.
A phoenix could still appear out of the ashes of the National Care Service Bill
The final amendments to what was the National Care Service Bill have been published. Nick Kempe reviews them to see what good can be salvaged out of the ground-down remains of the legislation.
