Robin Mcalpine: The four words that lose us independence – Ecuador, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, Panama by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 Common Weal director Robin McAlpine says focus group work shows tipping soft No voters to Yes is about changing the... Read more
Climate activists disrupt FMQs with call for a citizen’s assembly by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 Members of Extinction Rebellion Scotland interrupted today’s First Minister’s Questions by calling on Nicola Sturgeon to “establish a citizen’s assembly... Read more
Urban Agriculture: Grassroots solution to food scarcity – or a gateway to gentrification? by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 In the north of Glasgow, a community growing project has emerged where previously there was only a ‘food desert’, providing a dignified way... Read more
FilmSpace: Five Feet Apart; Ben is Back; The White Crow by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 Film critic Calum Cooper looks back at the week’s additional releases, including the teen romance, Five Feet Apart, the Julia... Read more
Little red dots by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 Last night’s farce in the House Of Commons, where MPs rejected in turn every single possible Brexit option and variant... Read more
US Christian right ‘dark money’ backed anti-abortion Glasgow students by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 A student council at one of Scotland’s leading universities has criticised the intervention of ‘dark money’ from a right wing... Read more
Westminster rocked as the SNP at last exercise a decisive role in the hung parliament by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 When the SNP lost 19 of their 54 seats at the 2017 election, one of the saving graces was that... Read more
The dreadful prospect by qwertyfan March 28, 2019 0 Theresa May has, finally, told us that she’s going. Well sort of. She’s told Tory MPs that she’s going to... Read more
Analysis: With the capitulation of Boris and Rees-Mogg, the Tories are on course for their greatest humiliation by qwertyfan March 27, 2019 0 CommonSpace editor Ben Wray finds that the death of the true Brexiteer dream means all that’s left for Toryism is... Read more
Analysis: ‘Cultural Marxism’ and why the Right cannot escape its essential racism by qwertyfan March 27, 2019 0 The idea of an elite conspiracy against western civilisation is the only way for the right to make sense of... Read more