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I want to choose a different modernity
Modern life truly is rubbish, and it is a state of affairs none of us chose. It is time to believe that we can chose a different modernity, one that works for us.
How can you wash your hands when this happens to us?
Temoka Melindo (Moka) is a student at Glasgow Caledonian University and now lives in Scotland as a climate refugee. She tells her story and asks how we can sit around and watch this happen to families like hers and still do nothing.
It’s time to stop lobbyists
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Repowering Scotland - A missed opportunity
The Scottish Government has squandered an opportunity to nationalise our energy by not taking Scotland’s first onshore wind farm into public ownership at the best time to do so.
This Skye wind farm fight shows Scotland's national energy injustice
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Chatbots Vs Democracy
Craig’s encounter with an AI chatbot feeding him false information about a Scottish political party and what that did to alert him to another threat from AI to our democracy.
When inequality is this high, all choices become bad
Speculation on the UK Budget this month has leaned on the tensions the UK Government’s faces as all of its choices seem to face intractable opposition
Why this sport's in a perilous position in Scotland
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Will your community feed your cat?
There has never been more talk about communities and yet less actual community. It is time we properly understood the science of isolation and why it is very, very bad for us and for society.
The second reason our food system is unreformable
In a previous article I argued that the food system we have is unreformable. Before I can explain how we can sort this system, we first need to understand why our food distribution system is unreformable too.
Information is still not free enough
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Scotland is still breaching your right to environmental justice
A UN Commission has found that Scotland remains in breach of your right to environmental justice. Here is why having adequate means of upholding your rights is as important as the rights themselves.
SNP Members back Common Weal’s public energy strategy (again)
The 2025 SNP Conference has backed a motion on public ownership of energy and a Just Transition for energy workers that deeply embeds several key policies advocated for by Common Weal, including a Scottish Public Energy Company.
Don’t be scared of the game - learn the rules
People don’t understand monetary theory and so those that do can make it all sound impossibly difficult. It is not as difficult as it seems - once you learn that there are different games and different rules…
Escaping the bonds of bonds
The world has passed a tipping point and we can no longer see bond markets as facilitating democracy. They are an active threat to democracy and we need to disempower them.
Solidarity is dangerous
The power of the efforts to break the blockade of Gaza is seen as an act of futility by some. It isn’t; it’s an act of solidarity and it is powerful because of that.
An Illusionary Convention
John Swinney is proposing a ‘constitutional convention’, but what he is proposing is no such thing. Understanding the original Constitutional Convention offers a real way forward for independence.
The one Keir Starmer policy I want to see implemented in Scotland
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The biggest threat we face? The rich
We've been trained never to criticise the rich and instead to celebrate their 'wealth creation'. New research suggests that in reality, they threaten our way of life most of all.
How to recapture public land
We need to reverse the subtle incremental transfer of land from the commons to the private sector. A way to do that is through a system of land default
