This Week in Health
Nicola Biggerstaff As the NHS crisis deepens, and cases of Covid-19 remain endemic, it is important to remember that healthcare remains a crucial issue in …
Month: April 2023
Are You Going to Accept it?
Kaitlin Dryburgh Sometimes a headline can just grab your attention and give you that sinking feeling in your stomach. A feeling of defeat, that what …
How to Fix Pensions – A Response to the IFS
Craig Dalzell Introduction This week the IFS published an important report on the state of pensions in the UK. I encourage you to read it …
Deeper into the challenge of changing scotland
Robin McAlpine I’ve had a lot of correspondence (and some comments on the Common Weal website) resulting from last week’s article. I know how depressing …
Why What Happens in Sudan Matters
Frances Guy In his recent article in The National David Pratt rightly highlights the possible further tragic consequences of potential regional intervention in the current …
But how?
Robin McAlpine Every week in this newsletter I try to explain either why what we are doing in Scotland is wrong and isn’t working or …
Data, Security and Me
Nicola Biggerstaff Information leakage has come a long way since the Cold War. From physical breaking and entering, now anyone who wishes to unleash international …
Sorted: Making Recreation A New Priority
Kaitlin Dryburgh As the saying goes, work hard, play hard. But have some of us forgotten how to do the play part? Are we too …
New Leadership – But a New Start?
Craig Dalzell This week I and a couple of my colleagues represented Common Weal at the STUC Congress in Dundee where I spoke at a …
Trouble Brews behind a New Deal For Tenants
Guest writer Tommy Lusk speaks from experience of leasing under a Social landlord and weighs up wether Social tenants will really benefit from a New Deal.