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Police Officer Numbers In Scotland
Police Officer numbers in Scotland.
A bankrupt university is a serious warning
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.
The arts have a class problem
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.
Disabling People
The UK Labour Government is doing to disabled people what the Conservatives didn’t think they could get away with.
Graph of the Week - Community Benefit from renewables
Community owned energy projects earn, on average, 34 times as much for their communities as privately owned projects do.
Covid - Five Years On
Craig’s personal reflections on his work at Common Weal five years ago during the Covid pandemic.
The transformative power of women as architects of peace, security, and justice
The Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons convened from 3 to 7 March 2025, in New York City. In the face of rising nuclear tensions and increasing misogyny globally, the Treaty has never been more important. A strong Scottish civil society contingency attended this year, including UN House Scotland, Scottish CND, Secure Scotland and Scottish Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
A politics of empathy is hard - but very powerful
We talk about empathy in politics as if it is the easy choice and the real work is the ‘difficult decisions’ which entire lack empathy. It is entirely the other way round - and we desperately need a politics of empathy.
A Different Justice
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.
Graph of the Week - Carbon Capture Pricing
The current price of fossil fuels compared to the added cost of capturing their pollution and the unpaid costs of not capturing emissions.
Britain’s aid shame
Graph of the Week - 14/March/2025
Democracy By All Of Us
With a single act, the Scottish Parliament could radically overhaul our devolved democracy and put people at the heart of holding our legislators to account.
Scotland’s Art sector Needs saving
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.
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...
