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Liberals caused political crisis on immigration – not just far right
How liberals opened the door to the right-wing’s amplification of the perception of an immigration crisis.
Megan Davidson: Introducing Myself
Megan Davidson joins Common Weal as our new member of staff. She introduces herself and explains how the path to political activism was not a straight line for her.
No-one is taking migration seriously. We need to start.
We are playing political games over a migration crisis we could manage comfortably while paying no attention to a migration crisis to come. That one will sink us - if we don’t act now.
We are all human, or none of us are.
Nigel Farage joins a disturbingly long list of UK politicians who are trying to win votes with promises of stripping other people of their human rights. If they win, nothing stops them taking away your rights too.
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.
GERS 2025 - How to make Scotland pay for Starmer’s wars
How GERS will be used to make Scotland pay for Britain’s wars.
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.
The case for a bit more stoicism
The one thing we all know is that being in touch with your feelings is good for you. Except the evidence is actually much more in the other direction and it is not clear our obsession with being ‘true to our emotions’ is helping us one little bit.
Still profiting from vulnerable children
Legislation to help children in care is finally with us 11 years late. But it protects more profit-extracting loopholes than it closes.
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.
Money for nothing is why we’re screwed
The expectation that every investment must automatically offer enormous returns has bent global economic policy round its fingers. But guaranteed returns are why the West is in so much trouble.
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.
Don’t grandstand, plan
Many people would like the First Minister to take a stand with Donald Trump. This is not an effective stance - and there are much more effective actions which can be taken.
Want to get on a train? Time for philosophy
The underpinning philosophies of how to govern are not abstract or obtuse. Rather they are the battlefields on which the future of public service will be fought.
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...
Scotland has no controlling intellect
Why does it feel like things in Scotland aren’t designed to work? It’s because they’re not designed to work by a person who cares, they’re designed to make profit by a bunch of people who don’t.
