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SNP Members back Common Weal’s public energy strategy (again)
The 2025 SNP Conference has backed a motion on public ownership of energy and a Just Transition for energy workers that deeply embeds several key policies advocated for by Common Weal, including a Scottish Public Energy Company.
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.
Carbon Offsetting could never work
The results of a 25 year study into the practice of “carbon offsetting” have found that many projects fail for entirely foreseeable reasons and many of the projects that don’t, never correct the climate damage they were designed to offset.
The one Keir Starmer policy I want to see implemented in Scotland
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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.
How to recapture public land
We need to reverse the subtle incremental transfer of land from the commons to the private sector. A way to do that is through a system of land default
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.
Burning hydrogen to launder oil and gas
John Swinney throws his support behind a scheme that is a bad way to heat homes and a bad way to use a precious hydrogen resource - evidently showing his capture by the oil and gas lobby.
Three years of learning
Engineering a better parliament
Our politics always seems to solve a problem in the way - because our politicians tend to think in a particular way. We need politicians with a more varied approach to problem-solving if we want to fix our problems.
Private equity ate my cats’ lunch
How private equity ate my cats’ lunch and what it tells us about modern Capitalism.
Moral Outrage - and rightly so
How to lose friends and alienate people
Politicians can't stop convincing themselves that working for commercial interests is actually working for the public good. The contradiction between what they think and what we think is undermining democracy.
Still getting heating policy wrong
The Scottish Government is creating a system which will punish the little guy but let the big guy off the hook. It really ought to be the other way round.
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...
