THE first Budget of the new Government – Labour’s first in 14 years – would have been rather more hotly anticipated if it wasn’t for the fact the Government leaked so much of it to the media ahead of time ...
Last week, I had the pleasure to address SNP members at the Revive Coalition’s fringe meeting on land reform where I presented Common Weal’s proposal to bring a land tax to Scotland.
AHEAD of the reopening of the UK Parliament next week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer painted a bleak picture of a broken Britain that he plans to break further so that he can mend it in the service of his “number one priority”, GDP growth and “wealth creation”. He’s going to ask us to accept “short-term pain, for long term good” ...
HOW would you feel if I, personally, had total control over the strategic direction of several key areas of public services that affect you?
ED Miliband halting new oil and gas licences is a very welcome change of direction for UK politics and effectively brings the UK Government into line with what was the Scottish Government’s policy on new oil and gas in January last year.
GIVEN the audience likely to read this column, the statement “UK democracy is broken” isn’t going to feel uncontroversial or even particularly objectionable, but it is one that is being forced into sharp relief by the ongoing UK General Election campaign.
GOOD evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Craig Dalzell, head of policy and research at Common Weal ...
John Swinney is now Scotland’s seventh First Minister. He is also the sixth first minister to have been, at the time of his swearing in, one of the tranche of "99’ers" – the first generation of MSPs who have held unbroken service in Holyrood since the start of devolution and the recommencement of the Scottish Parliament.
I was pleased to visit the STUC annual congress in Dundee this year, representing Common Weal as an observer and speaking at the SNP Trade Union Group’s fringe meeting on Scotland’s future.
I’M glad that The National dedicated last week to the issue of freeports. These deregulated tax havens have not been interrogated nearly well enough by our politicians or our media and the information coming from the ports themselves – even when asked directly – has been too little and too vague.
