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Common Weal Consultation Update - June 2025
An update covering some of the government consultations we’ve responded to so far this year.
Why a Scottish Currency Can’t Wait: Lessons from Keynes
German economist Jan Frederik Moos explains that the Scottish Government’s current position on an independent Scotland’s currency is simply wrong. Monetary independence is no the final stage in independence, it is the first.
Turning the heat up - the right way
A series of new government consultations could lead to a home insulation scheme that actually works. You should support them and ask your politicians to do the same.
‘Scotland’s Future – Something Worth Talking About’
William Duguid on the Independence Forum Scotland’s upcoming conference in Perth
This is why the food system is unreformable
Our food system has become a system of corporate exploitation, addiction and early deaths. When every incentive points exactly the wrong way, you can’t tweak the system into shape.
Loch Lomond is a right, not an opportunity
To help the politicians understand why their actions over Flamingo Land have made so many people so angry, Tam Brotherstone explains what it really meant to a working class boy like him. It mean freedom, peace and tranquility - if only for a night.
A phoenix could still appear out of the ashes of the National Care Service Bill
The final amendments to what was the National Care Service Bill have been published. Nick Kempe reviews them to see what good can be salvaged out of the ground-down remains of the legislation.
If you want to bid Government up, don’t start by bidding yourself down
As well-meaning as the Greens’ proposals for property tax reform were, they were doomed by dint of their own self-sabotage by minimisation.
Who is fighting your war?
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The Scottish Government continues to show bad faith when it comes to Freedom of Information, spending more time and effort to conceal information than it would take to simply comply with the spirit of the legislation.
It’s time we talked about it
It’s a subject that we need to talk about, perhaps uncomfortable and easier not to, but with Ash Regan’s proposed Prostitution Bill we may need to. Sex work often stays in the shadows, and as a society on the whole that’s the way we like it. But this new Bill may make us address some things.
What we are doing isn’t working - is it time for some utopia?
The one rule in politics is that all you can talk about is how you will change what is already there. But what if what is already there is so broken it will never work again?
Burning Down The House Of Cards
Rachel Reeves appears to be ready to remove banking regulations put in place after the 2008 Financial Crash, and setting us up for a repeat of it in the future.
Flamingoland: we have a system which itself is corrupt
An architect with 45 years of experience working in England cannot understand what he has seen in the Flamingoland decision. Perhaps it is time for direct democracy…
Why we should listen to a car boss if we want a GP appointment
The Western world has had a dominant model of how to do things for 40 years and it is clearly failing while China has a different model which very clearly works. It is time we started learning.
Why are we the sick person?
A Minimum Income Would Be A Real Cost Of Living Guarantee
Instead of a “Cost of Living Guarantee” that doesn’t actually guarantee that you can meet the cost of living, John Swinney should adopt the long-awaited publication of a proposal for a Minimum Income Guarantee.
Your Vote Matters
Frances Corr from Youth Voting Matters calls for young people in Scotland to be registered to vote from age 14.
What should we think about weight-loss drugs?
I want to choose how I’m cared for when I get old
None of us know what our health will bring in the future. A Living Will can help ensure that we get the care we want no matter what happens to us.
