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We must stop private equity acting like a private government
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-69y32
Published: June 29, 2026 09:15
Over the summer holidays the Common Weal Daily Briefing will only appear occasionally when there is a subject of particular interest. Daily service will return in mid-August.One of the arguments against socialism, communism, planned state provision and…
The 'media pen' is bad for democracy
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-rnfxr
Published: June 26, 2026 10:30
Democracy is not a material thing, made up of 'structures' or 'rules', it is something more than that. Democracy is a promise about relationships – the relationships between those who choose their leaders and those who lead them, between the people who…
Academic structures are now designed by corporate consultants
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-hbrar
Published: June 25, 2026 09:33
You're seeking to save £140 million. You've just saved £73 million and are now £14 million in surplus. In that context, a bill for £200,000 may not seem particularly egregious. Yet a contract from Edinburgh University to a private consulting firm feels…
Justice is served by rehabilitation, not punishment
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-pxkjf
Published: June 24, 2026 08:55
New statistics have been published on Scotland’s crime rates and reconviction rates. They show deep misunderstandings of the structural issues that lead to both, and mean that the politicians who don’t or don’t want to understand them are having entirely…
Will care pay deal turn out to be an illusion?
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-24nh6
Published: June 23, 2026 09:07
To understand why government policy in Scotland has been so ineffective and why the civic sector keeps persuading itself that things may be better than they are, it is worth looking at the deal made between trade unions and the Scottish Government on…
Politicians can’t accept that poverty is a result of economics
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-sj96f
Published: June 22, 2026 10:03
When a government is more than a decade into a strategy and then announces that it is going to review the basis on which the statistics that measure the success of that strategy are calculated, alarm bells should ring. This is never a good sign, and it…
‘The economy’ is not people’s political priority - if you ask the right question
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-fyhna
Published: June 19, 2026 11:26
Yesterday we looked at the (under-reported) release of the latest Scottish Social Attitude Survey, but on a quiet news day there is an important factor in those findings that is worth looking at more closely – the list of political priorities of Scottish…
The public is right, the politicians are wrong but the politics won’t change
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-l78xn
Published: June 18, 2026 09:00
The Scottish Government is not going out of its way to alert you to the publication of this year's Scottish Social Attitude Survey results. It isn't hard to see why – they make uncomfortable reading for society as a whole, and they are pretty damning of…
The university crisis is very real; the story you are hearing may not be
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-gx2tt
Published: June 17, 2026 09:24
Common Weal is developing a project on the future of universities in Scotland, an 'Alternative University Commission'. In working through the structure of that project, we have been in touch with a number of university staff groups fighting the cuts at…
Social media lobbying must be scrutinised as rigorously as government
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-dcdx5
Published: June 16, 2026 09:08
Common Weal is greatly reassured that steps are finally being taken to act on the overwhelming evidence of harm being caused to children and teenagers by social media. The UK's proposed ban looks, on the face of it, to be strong and comprehensive. We…