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Confucius said: “When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom”. This may be over-doing it a little, but I know what he meant. Words are how we express the...

WE ARE LIVING through a historical momentous moment. Our future is a blank page, waiting to be written. The challenges we face are likely to be worse than any of...

THERE IS A PHRASE in one of the recommendations in the report of the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery (published today) which kind of sums up their problem. It says:...

I am currently reading recently published book ‘Alpha City: How the Super-Rich Captured London’. One of the points made by author professor Rowland Atkinson is that despite the city being...

THIS WEEK, fascism made itself known in Glasgow. Your definition may vary; mine is wide enough to encompass the motley troop of far-Right loyalists (forgive the redundancy) who assembled under...

Of all the crazy stories of 2020 so far, the hand-to-hand combat between Chinese and Indian troops on the high-altitude rocks of the Galwan Valley is right up there. It sounds...

A LIBERAL VIEW of historical progress means we tend to view reactionary politics as an anachronism, the power of which is rooted in slowly fading past. A misreading of the...

THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT last night (18 June) voted to declare the nation’s mountain hares a protected species, following intense pressure from campaigners and the Scottish public. In what the League...

Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy. Over the last six years Common Weal has been showing...

It is difficult to think of many things more contemptible than a protest which intimidates and violently attacks asylum seekers and refugees. The last thing someone who is just trying...