Month: June 2019

​​​​Researchers hope new inquiry will help identify steps that can be taken to tackle anti-Muslim bigotry Holyrood’s Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia and researchers at Newcastle University will cooperate on ...

Common Weal’s Energy Working Group has published their latest paper on improving Scotland’s energy strategy. Carbon-Free, Poverty-Free looks at the challenge of reducing carbon emissions in Scotland’s rural areas. The ...

The training of Royal Navy recruits at Faslane nuclear base could be delivered by American multinationals who are bidding for a lucrative Ministry of Defence contract. Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, ...

Contributing to our week of special coverage on refugees and asylum seekers, Ben Wray looks at whether the West is equipped to deal with the coming climate refugee crisis, which will ...

Glasgow City Council have rejected calls to bid for First Bus services, while Aberdeen and Falkirk councils have started talks with the company A Transport Bill currently in progress in ...

You’re going to need to before you watch today’s episode of The Jeremy Vine Show, featuring Paul Burrell (who used to be a royal butler about 20 years ago and ...

Episode 12 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast     You can download this episode directly here. Common Weal's Head of Policy and Research Dr Craig Dalzell is joined by ...

Refugee Festival Scotland started on Thursday 20 June YVONNE MORE from Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment explains their event at this year's Refugee Festival Scotland.  CommonSpace is running a special ...

As Ofcom require any complaints about the BBC to be directed to the Corporation first, I’ve sent the BBC the letter below today (by physical mail, as the online complaint ...

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