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Looking Forward with common Weal
The climate crisis is fairly clean cut for most of us. We need to stop the emissions and cut down on fossil fuel reliance. Scotland is fairly unique, as a country it omits a lot of carbon but additionally it has a very well established oil and gas industry.

A new Scottish model
The world is changing is changing and Scotland will have to as well. Let’s not be swept around by events, let’s create a strategy.

Platform Socialism
Scotland has some powerful tools we could use to defend ourselves against a Trump trade tantrum. Ones we should be using anyway to break the power of the billionaires who enable him.

Omnibuses
The new pilot scheme to offer free public transport in Glasgow is welcome – but it’s far too limited and we could write the report already. We need universal free public transport.

Where Next For Grangemouth?

economy - culture - media, economy - culture - media...

Are we breaking-up?

The Only Way To Fix Council Tax
The Scottish Government has dropped its promise for a Citizens’ Assembly on Council Tax reform in favour of much weaker “public engagements”.
Here’s the only real option for change: A Property Tax based on the current value of a house.

The National Care Service (Wonderland) Bill
The Scottish Government is operating in Wonderland, still trying to “co-design” a National Care Service that no longer meaningfully exists.

A different democracy for Scotland

The National Care Service (Wonderland) bill

The Only Way To Fix Council Tax

To be a socialist is to love

What should be on the shirt?

An empty promise that explains everything

Lessons From The New Deal

Have we lost the youth?

Scotland: We Have Rockets Too

Both governments are wrong on DRS
