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Government must get its hands dirty
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine

Government must get its hands dirty

Common Weal could offer the incoming Scottish Government all the policy it needs, but its problem isn’t policy. Its problem is that it doesn’t have a theory of how government works so it doesn’t understand why it isn’t working just now.

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How the average person killed politics
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine

How the average person killed politics

The ‘moderate centre’ is where almost all politicians think elections are won, yet new research shows that no-one wants moderate parties. The gap between is exactly where democracy has been dying.

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It's time to be serious – Scotland needs partners
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine

It's time to be serious – Scotland needs partners

It seems like self-sabotage to have the chance of a major industrial plant in Scotland and to throw that chance away. It is time we were more aware of the reality of our position as a manufacturing nation and recognised that to develop, we can’t start from scratch.

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A Strategy for Deliberative Democracy
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Bill Johnston Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Bill Johnston

A Strategy for Deliberative Democracy

Bill Johnston follows up his article from January on building the infrastructure we need to develop a truly deliberative democracy

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Cities for people first, tourists second
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Rory Hamilton Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Rory Hamilton

Cities for people first, tourists second

Rory Hamilton says his non-New Year’s resolution to carry something forward from 2025 into 2026 and to leave something behind in 2025 is no better embodied than in his moving from Edinburgh to Glasgow.

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Farewell Auld Reekie, onwards the dear green place
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Rory Hamilton Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Rory Hamilton

Farewell Auld Reekie, onwards the dear green place

Rory Hamilton says his non-New Year’s resolution to carry something forward from 2025 into 2026 and to leave something behind in 2025 is no better embodied than in his moving from Edinburgh to Glasgow.

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2025 - Common Weal’s Year in Policy
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Craig Dalzell Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Craig Dalzell

2025 - Common Weal’s Year in Policy

Craig runs through Common Weal’s policy library to show off everything we’ve published this year, just in case you’ve missed a paper or two and would like to see them.

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How can you wash your hands when this happens to us?
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Timoka Melindo Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Timoka Melindo

How can you wash your hands when this happens to us?

Temoka Melindo (Moka) is a student at Glasgow Caledonian University and now lives in Scotland as a climate refugee. She tells her story and asks how we can sit around and watch this happen to families like hers and still do nothing.

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Escaping the bonds of bonds
Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine Care, Democracy, Health, Independence, Industry, Information, Justice, Learning, Money, Place, Recreation, Resources, Security, Wellbeing, World Robin McAlpine

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.

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