CommonSpace

Communities Secretary Aileen Campbell tells parliament that the Scottish Government’s plans to develop a new public energy company are still on track Our Power’s 70 Edinburgh-based employees will receive support...

Automation and other disruptive technologies are rapidly entering the global economy and could threaten up to 30% of jobs in Scotland by 2030. If we are to deliver an economy...

In the final contribution to CommonSpace’s week of special coverage on the mental health crisis, Sonny Hallett, chair of AMASE (Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh) and co-author of a recent report...

CommonSpace among Scottish media and political actors listed in leaks from British state-backed 'infowar' outfit THE shadowy charity accused of running a British state-backed campaign against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn...

CommonSpace journalist Rhiannon J Davies takes a look at older people and mental health issues, a conversation that is often forgotten. “IT’S the loneliness,” says Mandy, 62, based in Clydesdale. “When you’re in...

In his final column of the year, Common Weal director Robin McAlpine makes the case for eudemonic happiness, where we ditch searching for the latest consumerist high or even faddish...

Common Weal’s Head of Policy & Research Dr Craig Dalzell looks back at 2018, forward to 2019 and wishes to thank everyone who has come with us on our continuing...

Scott Macdonald, social media organiser for the SSP, contributes to our special week of coverage on the mental health crisis. He argues that precarity and isolation are the products of a...

Angela Haggerty, journalist and former CommonSpace editor, contributes to our special week of coverage on the mental health crisis, drawing on her own experience to question whether what is deemed...

As part of CommonSpace's week of coverage on the modern mental health crisis, we spoke to Darren 'Loki' McGarvey about men, masculinity and mental ill-health WHAT are the causes and consequnces...