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The Scottish Government wants to remove profit from children’s care – here’s how to do it.
A repost from our In Common column in The National, Craig summarises our latest policy paper on how and why the Scottish Government must remove profit from children’s care.
Private profit doesn't make government more efficient
For 50 years we've lived as if private profit is good for public services and it has led to the mass extraction of public wealth by corporate insiders. We will never fix public services until we admit this problem.
How to profit from not-for-profit care
Common Weal’s latest policy paper discovers that the Scottish Government’s commitment to limit profit in children’s care is likely to face obstacles as there are many more ways to extract money from “not-for-profit” work than the narrow definition of “profit”.
I want to choose a different modernity
Modern life truly is rubbish, and it is a state of affairs none of us chose. It is time to believe that we can chose a different modernity, one that works for us.
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.
It’s time to stop lobbyists
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When banks own housebuilders, house prices go up
A repost from our In Common column in The National, Craig examines the accounts of a volume housebuilder to work out how much you are paying their shareholders to own your home.
Repowering Scotland - A missed opportunity
The Scottish Government has squandered an opportunity to nationalise our energy by not taking Scotland’s first onshore wind farm into public ownership at the best time to do so.
This Skye wind farm fight shows Scotland's national energy injustice
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When inequality is this high, all choices become bad
Speculation on the UK Budget this month has leaned on the tensions the UK Government’s faces as all of its choices seem to face intractable opposition
Why this sport's in a perilous position in Scotland
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The Scottish Government wants to avoid reforming Council Tax
A briefing of the Scottish Government’s consultation on Council Tax reform, what’s missing from it and why it has been published now, just months before the next election.
Information is still not free enough
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Don’t be scared of the game - learn the rules
People don’t understand monetary theory and so those that do can make it all sound impossibly difficult. It is not as difficult as it seems - once you learn that there are different games and different rules…
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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The Recession Hidden in Council Tax
How the unfairness at the heart of the Council Tax may be affecting you and how a disturbing rise in missed Council Tax payments may be a sign of a coming recession.
The biggest threat we face? The rich
We've been trained never to criticise the rich and instead to celebrate their 'wealth creation'. New research suggests that in reality, they threaten our way of life most of all.
