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Episode 13 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...

Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine argues Boris Johnson is not a silver bullet for Scottish independence – only a positive, well evidenced campaign will get Yes over 50+ per cent HURRAY! We don't...

The Lift the Ban campaign fights for the right to work for asylum seekers CURRENTLY people seeking asylum are banned from working while they await a decision on their asylum...

Contributing to our week of special coverage, Marie Von Leipzig takes a look at what extending voting rights in Scotland to refugees and asylum seekers in the recently published Scottish Elections...

Teaching staff were given no notice before the announcement that their contracts were ending Patrick Harvie raised the issue of the termination of 40 temporary contracts at Glasgow Kelvin College at...

Legal Aid public consultation will run until 19 September as the government seek to implement the recommendations of the Evans review which found no need to change the funding model...

Campaigners celebrated the cross-party opposition to the proposed development Pressure group Save Loch Lomond said: “This has restored our faith in local democracy” Over 56,000 people have signed an objection...

COMMONSPACE talked to Colin Edwards about the film 'Make Way For Tomorrow', which highlights the precarity of some people's lives in the face of austerity, through through the lens of...

The money saved from not going ahead with an air tax cut is about equivalent to the money to be spent on a “game-changer” in tackling child poverty – making progressive...

Common Weal submits a consultation response to the Scottish Government. A follow-up of Common Weal's policy paper, Carbon-Free, Poverty-Free, this consultation response distills the conclusions of that report and has...