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When repetition dulls urgency
How to tell stories for the future
If we are to beat the narratives of the far right we need to tell people better stories. But to do that we have to stop thinking about what we feel for a moment and start thinking more about what the people we want to speak to are feeling.
How the EPC system makes building eco-houses harder
A guest article from supporter Michael Breslin on how his attempt to build an eco-house was penalised by the broken Energy Performance Certificate system.
Opening and Securing the Digital Frontiers
The Scottish Government needs to start talking about “real security” - one way it can start practicing it is by making it easier for Scottish public bodies, private companies and individuals to start using open source software instead of software that can be compromised or shut down by the US President.
Young, confused, and right: why our newest voters deserve better
How liberals abandoned the future - and why we must find it again
The liberal establishment came to totally dominate Britain, but it had no vision of what the future should be other than a series of procedures. Unless others begin to map out a different future, we’re stuck here - or worse.
Burning hydrogen to launder oil and gas
John Swinney throws his support behind a scheme that is a bad way to heat homes and a bad way to use a precious hydrogen resource - evidently showing his capture by the oil and gas lobby.
What makes a good victim?
The West has found it remarkably easy to not view Palestinians as ‘good victims’. How is it that we find this hypocrisy so easy and what makes a good victim?
The Decline of Conscientiousness- and Why it Matters for Politics
This is a warning
We take modern digital connectivity for granted - too for granted. We are woefully ill-prepared for inevitable and possibly catastrophic outages.
How “Me First” pensions make the UK’s debt more expensive
Exploring the connection between risky pension investments and the UK’s rising debt payments.
Liberals caused political crisis on immigration – not just far right
How liberals opened the door to the right-wing’s amplification of the perception of an immigration crisis.
Introducing Myself
Megan Davidson joins Common Weal as our new member of staff. She introduces herself and explains how the path to political activism was not a straight line for her.
No-one is taking migration seriously. We need to start.
We are playing political games over a migration crisis we could manage comfortably while paying no attention to a migration crisis to come. That one will sink us - if we don’t act now.
We are all human, or none of us are.
Nigel Farage joins a disturbingly long list of UK politicians who are trying to win votes with promises of stripping other people of their human rights. If they win, nothing stops them taking away your rights too.
Three years of learning
Engineering a better parliament
Our politics always seems to solve a problem in the way - because our politicians tend to think in a particular way. We need politicians with a more varied approach to problem-solving if we want to fix our problems.
Private equity ate my cats’ lunch
How private equity ate my cats’ lunch and what it tells us about modern Capitalism.
GERS 2025 - How to make Scotland pay for Starmer’s wars
How GERS will be used to make Scotland pay for Britain’s wars.
Too late for gambling regrets Gordon
Gordon Brown is right that the gambling industry has become a money-printing blight on our society worth billions of pounds and should be taxed. Pity it was him that caused this to happen in the first place.
