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Landlords don't solve homelessness
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-ynxfp
Published: September 1, 2025 09:18
The Herald is once again running stories presenting a loss of private sector landlords as in some way a bad outcome for those who are homeless. This is another in the series of 'privileged people think they should make money for nothing who seem to think…
We need to take cars off the road, not subsidise them to sell more
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-54zks
Published: August 29, 2025 07:25
The UK Government has announced a new public subsidy scheme for electric vehicle (EV) cars. Some new EV cars selling for up to £37,000 will fall under a scheme that allows carmakers to claim back a subsidy of £3,750 when the car is sold. A lower bracket of…
We need Trading Standards because Capitalism won’t regulate itself
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-hgyx4
Published: August 28, 2025 08:07
It’s said that every regulation is written in blood.That is to say that whenever you see a rule or a sign saying “Thou shalt not”, it’s probably there because someone, somewhere, at some point, looked around and decided “I certainly shall” and proceeded to…
Human Rights must protect everyone or they protect no-one
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-nb8as
Published: August 26, 2025 12:51
The rightwards radicalisation of England and thus the UK Government is accelerating under the glare of Nigel Farage and even former “left” politicians like Keir Starmer are responding not with condemnation but by saying “we’ll do it more…
There’s no plan b for learning to swim
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-lmhm5
Published: August 26, 2025 08:33
What happens when there are no swimming pools? Communities in Scotland are about to find out, according to reporting in the Herald today based on research by the GMB union that shows that 500 swimming pools have closed across the UK, with half of them…
Rent controls: Above inflation rent rises are not good enough
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-2xjks
Published: August 25, 2025 09:00
When the Scottish Parliament reconvenes next month, the Scottish Greens plan to force a vote on a proposal to reintroduce rent caps in Scotland. The previous rent caps - introduced during the pandemic - were unceremoniously dropped by the Scottish…
The innovative high school that should be normal
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-gah4h
Published: August 22, 2025 09:22
It is remarkable, pioneering, innovative, unusual – and it shouldn't be. That is the best conclusion to draw from the new 'state of the art' high school which has been built in Currie, because in fact it actually isn't state of the art and the innovative…
SNIB losses are mounting, largely for the reasons we warned they would
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-xne7p
Published: August 21, 2025 08:19
The creation of the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) is one of Common Weal’s proudest achievements alongside Ynni Cymru - the Welsh public energy company - and the Scottish Lobbying Register - one of the most powerful mechanisms of government…
Whole-system fixes needed to ambulance failures
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-xpxm4
Published: August 20, 2025 08:51
A young man has a seziure, falls and sustains fractures. Lying on the ground a passerby phones for an ambulance. On the phone call they are instead offered a consultation. The police end up ferrying the young man to a hospital where he requires…
The Scottish Government controls the policing of protest in Scotland
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-e2c58
Published: August 19, 2025 09:09
It has taken a surprisingly long time for the debate over the repressive handling of pro-Palestine protest in Scotland to make its way to the Lord Advocate's desk, at least in public. But it is there now and it highlights a reality that should have been…
Warning of the Collapse of Care Charities: When your rights are broken, Who Actually cares?
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-n4z73
Published: August 18, 2025 08:12
Over the weekend, the Herald ran a story warning of an impending collapse of the care sector in Scotland. More than 200 charities that provide care voiced concerns that they are near collapse unless the Local Authorities who pay them to provide care…