Child PAYMENTS Don’t Stop Poverty
Robin McAlpine – January 27th, 2022 The Scottish Government’s advisers have said that it must quadruple Scottish Child Payments to £40 if it is to …
Month: January 2022
Empowering Scotland’s Investment Bank
Craig Dalzell – January 27th, 2022 Update:- The Scottish Government has now publicly called for SNIB to be granted the borrowing powers it needs. Please …
If You Enjoyed Don’t Look Up…
Rory Hamilton – January 27th, 2022 Following on from our team chat about Adam McKay’s film Don’t Look Up* on the podcast last week, I’ve been thinking …
The Great Realisation
Robin McAlpine – 20th January 2022 Did you, at some point during the pandemic, start to think about your life differently? You might have had …
ScotWind UP!
Craig Dalzell – 20th January 2022 The debacle over the auctioning off of Scotland’s offshore wind potential for not much more than a song has …
Asylum seekers can work in care homes
Kathy Jenkins – 20th January 2022 Asylum seekers can work in care homes after Priti Patel rule change Common Weal’s position is that all asylum …
How not to design a National Care Service
Nick Kempe – 20th January 2022 On 10th January the Scottish Government published a notice on the Scotland Contracts Portal announcing it had awarded a contract worth …
Devo Max is not a Middle Way
Craig Dalzell – 13th January 2022 I remember the day that I became an advocate for an independent Scotland. October 15th, 2012. Prior to this …
Were the Christmas RESTRICTIONS A MISTAKE?
Robin McAlpine – 13th January 2022 Were the Christmas Covid restrictions a mistake? Is this an issue that can be debated with maturity in Scotland? …
The Efficiency Delusion
Hillary Sillitto – 13th January 2022 Why do we keep falling foul of the efficiency fallacy? Last month Common Weal published a blog by Robin …