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The Right to Adequate Housing must extend to Rents too

https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-b5fmg

Published: January 7, 2026 09:33

The Herald today highlights that tens of thousands of families are in dire need of support as the private rented sector pushes them into desperate poverty or even homelessness while at the same time the fund set up by the Scottish Government to help such…

Rory’s story of the year - finally, a new left party?

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Published: December 18, 2025 10:39

It’s one week before Christmas Day, you’ve tuned in to watch Monty Python’s Life of Brian - all the classics on the TV in the run up to the festive break. “The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People’s Front!” says the People’s Front…

Robin’s story of the year – the hope in social attitudes

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Published: December 17, 2025 10:34

Perhaps the one universal view among commentators is that in 2025 Britain moved sharply to the right and social attitudes went with it. This seems to be confirmed by a number of trends, but in fact, if you look not very far below this surface, you'll find…

Megan’s story of the year – A right without a roof is not a right

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Published: December 16, 2025 11:02

This is Common Weal’s last working week before we take a break until next year. So we’re doing something a little different with our Daily Briefing for the next few days, with one of our staffers offering up their “Story of the Year”, looking back at…

Craig’s Story of the Year - The German UBI study

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Published: December 15, 2025 09:31

This is Common Weal’s last working week before we take a break until next year. So we’re doing something a little different with our Daily Briefing for the next few days with one of our staffers offering up their “Story of the Year”, looking back at…

Scotland will pay a price for the demolition of regional development

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Published: December 12, 2025 10:33

The UK Government's 'Pride in Place' programme is a case study in misleading propaganda. It is the weary familiar process of cutting one thing, replacing it with a much smaller thing but giving it a new name to make it sound like it is new money when in…

Public sector ‘defensive spending’ is a clear moral hazard

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Published: December 11, 2025 10:00

We now know the total legal fees spent by NHS Fife in its recent and long-running industrial tribunal case. At £400,000 is a very substantial sum by any standards and it is difficult to see what the Scottish public got from this spending.It highlights a…

Common Weal are the only group telling the Government to keep “The Promise” in full

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Published: December 10, 2025 10:05

How much should private companies be allowed to profit from providing care for vulnerable children? If you asked the Scottish Government when they made “The Promise”, the answer would be zero. To quote them at the time “Scotland must make sure that its…

Energy proposals are much too little, much too late

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Published: December 9, 2025 09:49

We will seek not to repeat ourselves in this morning's briefing. The First Minister has claimed that Scotland could get a 20 per cent public stake in Scotland's energy industry – but only after independence. This is measurably far too little and far too…

Care homes are not NHS dumping grounds

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Published: December 8, 2025 09:47

Today the Scottish Tories are proposing a policy whereby spare capacity in care homes could be used to free up hospital beds where there is delayed discharge. This proposal has merit in principle but also fails to lean the lessons of the pandemic or to…

Carbon capture and storage was never going to happen

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Published: December 5, 2025 10:17

Today's newspapers are reporting that the future of the Acorn carbon capture and storage project is in doubt. Common Weal would disagree with that assessment. We would argue that all that is in doubt is the illusion that there is going to be a carbon…