CARE at Christmas
Nick Kempe, 23rd December 2021 Care at Christmas and the role of unpaid care in Scotland Set aside the consumerism and Christianity, Christmas Day is …
Month: December 2021
CLIMATE ASSEMBLY: The Power of People
Craig Dalzell – 23rd December 2021 The Scottish Government has finally officially responded to the Scottish Climate Assembly with a full report of their own and detailed …
In 2022, make sure everyone has the bus fare home
Robin McAlpine – 23rd December 2021 As we head off into the warm, firelit glow of another heavily disrupted Christmas at the end of another …
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What is Society?
Robin McAlpine – 16th December 2021 For a word which we use so much, the meaning of the word ‘society’ is not one that we …
The Budget that wasn’t
Craig Dalzell – 16th December 2021 This year’s Scottish budget was, quite frankly, the absolute least that could be done by any Government. The irony being that …
That survey – and what it could have asked
Professor Mark Smith – 16th December 2021 The Scottish Government’s National Health and Well-being census is eliciting the biggest customary controversy over the respective roles …
Ageing Scotland
Craig Dalzell – 9th December 2021 Four years ago Common Weal was approached by my now co-author Bill Johnson, then the chair of Scottish Seniors’ …
You are not (even) a number
In that wonderfully bizarre 1960s TV programme The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan would rage against his benign captivity in the surreal ‘village’. His memory and name taken, …
CAMBO or Post-Oil Economy
Robin McAlpine – 2nd December 2021 In the debate about tackling the environmental crises we risk taking what is really quite simple and complicating it …
Regulating Social Care –  Could the SSSC Do Better?
Regulating Social Care – Could the SSSC Do Better? Your Help Please… Colin Turbett – Care Reform Group – 2nd December 2021 The social care and …
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