Is Scottish politics afraid of the arts?
Robin McAlpine Last week Amanda asked you all what subjects you’d like us to cover more in the Common Weal weekly newsletter. Easily the biggest …
Month: March 2023
A Very Tory Budget
Craig Dalzell Everything is fine again! Not great, you understand. Not enough to restore the cuts of more than a decade of Austerity or to …
Get Back to What you Know
Kaitlin Dryburgh This past week the BBC has had quite the controversy on their hands, throwing their foundation of impartiality into turmoil. Although the issue …
Child Referrals to Social Work
Marion Macleod A few years ago, in 2019, I assisted Andy Bilson, Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire, in gathering …
Why Community Councils are Awesome…
Simon Jones Why community councils are awesome and you should definitely join yours! One of the few points of disagreement I have with Common Weal’s …
Anything you Can Do I Can Do Too
Kaitlin Dryburgh So you’ve got a leak, or your heating has packed in or maybe you need a new shower fitted, you phone up your …
Scotland’s money trees are making us poorer
Robin McAlpine Is there no aspect of Scotland which isn’t there mainly to make the very rich richer? Is there no limit to how much …
Living Locally
Craig Dalzell I’ve known more than a few weird conspiracy theories in my time. “We didn’t put people on the Moon” (We did. I’ve helped …
Appealing To The Centre
Craig Dalzell You’ve probably heard the line at some point from someone in the upper echelons of the independence campaign. That we need to “appeal …
The Decline of Community Sport- Can you Help?
Kaitlin Dryburgh Up and down Scotland and the rest of UK local leisure centres, swimming pools and gyms are at a crisis point. Community sport …