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May 5, 2024
The Japanese and Italian governments stand to gain millons from a profitable stake in plans for what has been touted as the worlds largest floating…
May 3, 2024
SCOTTISH independence supporters will gather for All Under One Banner’s (AUOB) March for Independence on Saturday in Glasgow where speakers from…
April 28, 2024
Scotland plc has made a loss of over £250bn since devolution - leading to new calls for a radical rethink over how the nation over-relies on…
April 26, 2024
The Alba Party MSP could play a crucial role in whether Humza Yousaf continues as first minister.
March 27, 2024
Benefits for families and communities across Scotland needs urgent change
January 29, 2024
Seventeen ScotWind projects, with a combined potential generating capacity of 25GW, have been offered new rights to specific areas of the seabed for the development of offshore wind power. But a failure to create a state-owned energy company which could have sold the new ScotWind electricity to the grid and retained operating profits, has led to concerns that the nation will lose between £3.5 billion and £5.5 billion every year - about a tenth of the current Scottish...
January 23, 2024
The centre’s vice-like control has left us all living in disempowered communities, writes the founder of the Common Weal thinktank. Britain is the country
December 13, 2023
Much has been said and written about the apparent decline in educational standards in Scotland as presented by the latest PISA results. Before the…
December 11, 2023
The article in The Herald (“District heating, not heat pumps, must be the answer”, December 6) from Common Weal at last provided some common…
November 25, 2023
IT’S time for the Scottish Government to smell the coffee and, as a matter of urgency, bring a consultation on a Bill which could give Scotland…