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Young, confused, and right: why our newest voters deserve better
How liberals abandoned the future - and why we must find it again
The liberal establishment came to totally dominate Britain, but it had no vision of what the future should be other than a series of procedures. Unless others begin to map out a different future, we’re stuck here - or worse.
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.
What makes a good victim?
The West has found it remarkably easy to not view Palestinians as ‘good victims’. How is it that we find this hypocrisy so easy and what makes a good victim?
The Decline of Conscientiousness- and Why it Matters for Politics
This is a warning
We take modern digital connectivity for granted - too for granted. We are woefully ill-prepared for inevitable and possibly catastrophic outages.
How “Me First” pensions make the UK’s debt more expensive
Exploring the connection between risky pension investments and the UK’s rising debt payments.
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.
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.