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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.
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.
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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This Skye wind farm fight shows Scotland's national energy injustice
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This is the Scottish landscape I dream of
Scotland has a land problem - we lack ownership and we lack imagination. I have done nothing but imagine a different countryside for years - and this is what it looks like.
Why this sport's in a perilous position in Scotland
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Will your community feed your cat?
There has never been more talk about communities and yet less actual community. It is time we properly understood the science of isolation and why it is very, very bad for us and for society.
Information is still not free enough
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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.
Three years of learning
Too late for gambling regrets Gordon
Gordon Brown is right that the gambling industry has become a money-printing blight on our society worth billions of pounds and should be taxed. Pity it was him that caused this to happen in the first place.
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...
