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Work To Live
Rather than ask how a UBI would improve life, we could ask what it would look like if someone tried to study the impact of taking a UBI away from us.

So what is possible now?
Global politics is all over the place and the old orthodoxies seem to be dead. So what might unorthodox economic policy for Scotland look like?

It’s Scotland’s Economy - Or Is It?
Scotland is losing billions of pounds a year to profit extraction. Why is the Scottish Government encouraging even more?

Deal or no deal
Generations promised stability, prosperity, and opportunity now faces a reality of insecure work, unaffordable housing, and a system stacked against them. What exactly are we offering the young people of today?

Learning from “Greens in Government™”
As we move forward, we must ensure that we are at the centre of decisions, that there remains a left-wing voice in Holyrood, and that we are not tempted by the neoliberal forces of even Scotland’s establishment if we are to return to power.

Help us lob a molotov cocktail at failure
The scale of failure in Scotland now has gone well beyond concerning into really alarming territory. We can’t go on like this, but to create a manifesto of change we’ll need help…

Trump’s Trade Tariffs
Trump’s trade tariffs are as high as they’ve been in the USA for almost a century.

Inside the campaign to tax the poor
Here we go again - the Scottish establishment is back demanding that students pay the price for how universities have been run in recent decades. The one thing they won’t seem to countenance is putting their hands in their own pockets.

A bankrupt university is a serious warning
The climate crisis is fairly clean cut for most of us. We need to stop the emissions and cut down on fossil fuel reliance. Scotland is fairly unique, as a country it omits a lot of carbon but additionally it has a very well established oil and gas industry.

Britain’s aid shame
Graph of the Week - 14/March/2025