Month: November 2018

The Conservatives in Scotland have been very quiet about UN Special Rapporteur Professor Philip Alston’s findings on poverty in the UK – 1.5 million people are destitute due to the ...

With Theresa May flailing on Brexit and the UK government in crisis, the prospect of another general election is increasingly likely. In such a scenario, Scottish independence will inevitably return ...

CommonSpace editor Ben Wray finds no one seems to want to talk about the big substance issues affecting Scotland’s fishing communities, the three most important being inequality, ownership and technological ...

Edinburgh Green councillor Gavin Corbett demands “squeaky clean” management of Edinburgh schools from private finance company THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP model for building schools and other public infrastructure should be recognised ...

Common Weal Energy researcher Gordon Morgan criticises a news piece and editorial in the Herald which sought to scaremonger about renewables, at a time when what we need to be ...

The new Teachers Panel will put teachers’ “voices at the heart of TIE” TIE HAVE announced a new independent Teachers Panel to supervise the development of their school resources and services, ...

The Glasgow Connectivity Commission aims to reverse the impact of low bus usage of low-income passengers and prioritise “people-friendly” public spaces THE GLASGOW CONNECTIVITY COMMISSION today published the first of ...

In the Cartoon of the Week, Lorna Miller (@mistressofline) looks at Britain’s constitutional crisis, and the possibilities for a second independence referendum. Click here to view last week’s Cartoon of ...

Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that while unionists don’t want any comparison to be made between Scottish independence and Africa’s decolonisation process, a recent conference on the Canary Islands ...

Patrick Phillips, writer and artist, argues that the concept of Local Authorities needs to be totally overhauled, including linguistically, so that the relationship between citizen and state is re-born I ...