Month: June 2018

In his weekly column Common Weal director Robin McAlpine asks readers to take a fresh look at Common Weal’s White Paper Project, which he says is an attempt to plan ...

New research by Totally Money shows Edinburgh is one of the best places in the UK at the moment to be a buy-to-let landlord FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon faced questions ...

Professor Abby Innes found that the debt which led to the collapse of Carillion is built into the business model of big outsourcing firms, which received 73 per cent of ...

Ahead of new Amnesty report on humanitarian crisis in Yemen, former cabinet secretary says that the UK Government is “on the side of the perpetrator” AS the Saudi-led military coalition ...

In her Cartoon of the Week, Lorna Miller (@mistressofline) reflects on the fire last Friday (15 June) at the world famous Mackintosh building in Glasgow, during a costly renovation of ...

Doaa Shabbir, a 15 year-old school student in Glasgow who recently finished her exams, presents a vision for education which breaks with hierarchies and competitiveness, and sees the uplifting of a ...

Ahead of ‘Spycops’ conference, Ellenor Hutson tells of how her environmental activism saw her mysteriously blacklisted from an industry she’d never worked in “THE THING that sticks with me is ...

Coalition of activists and campaign organisations presents a new vision for community empowerment at Glasgow’s #Democracy21 conference MAJOR POWERS should be devolved to local communities, argues a new declaration launched ...

Given the centuries of economic exploitation, political domination and depopulation, I perfectly understand why many Scots support any team at the World Cup which is playing England. But, with an ...