This paper was produced by four students who worked with Common Weal over the summer of 2025 and measures the public health emergency that has resulted from big businesses using online tools like algorithmic social media to engineer childhood for profitability.

A Common Weal response to the UK Government’s proposal to give exemptions to AI developers from copyright laws.

How to consult meaningfully and effectively with people living in the global south.

A consultation response on reform of community benefits from renewable energy projects.

Commissioned by Revive.
A proposal for a Local Authority controlled Land Tax with projected revenue for each Local Authority in Scotland

A Common Weal response to a consultation on the framework governing Scottish Commissioners

How poor negotiation of the Fiscal Settlement has failed Scotland

Why a superficial approach to Wellbeing Economics will fail.

A response to Colin Smyth MSP’s consultation for a Members’ Bill to create a Commissioner for Older People in Scotland

A Common Weal response to the consultation on Mercedes Villalba MSP’s Members’ Bill proposing that a public interest test is applied if any individual wishes to own more than 500 hectares of Scottish land.

A response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on legislation to cut devolved LBTT taxes within Scottish Freeports

A response to the Members’ Bill supported by Katy Clark MSP on the reform and extension of FOI legislation.

A response to the Scottish Government consultation on Freedom of Information legislation.

A response to the UK Government’s proposal to “bring back” Imperial measurements and allow goods to be sold without an equally prominent metric equivalent weight or measurement marking.

The latest iteration in our study of the demographics of supporters of independence and how they’ve changed since 2014.

Eight ideas Scotland should be talking about in this election.

The final stage of the Resilient Scotland Plan running from 2025 to 2045.

This phase of Resilient Scotland covers 2021-26 the five years of the next Scottish Parliament.

Part One of Resilient Scotland - from the present until the 2021 Scottish Parliamentary elections.

A summary version of Part One of Resilient Scotland.