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You can’t stop deaths of despair without addressing despair
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-s8wnf
Published: April 29, 2026 09:31
The latest quarterly drug death statistics were released yesterday. They do not make for comfortable reading and so have prompted an election campaign spat, with Scottish Labour accusing the SNP/Scottish Government of trying to address the issue via…
Bureaucracies should not treat complaints as a threat
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-sf3zy
Published: April 28, 2026 08:59
In a briefing last week we looked at a variety of statistics around the NHS and concluded that they imply that the NHS is undoubtedly under sever duress but that they do not stack up the partisan explanations for the problems being put forward by various…
A BBC with no vision is in danger
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-8rcpc
Published: April 27, 2026 09:23
The BBC appears to be in crisis everywhere just now, but in Scotland it takes a particular form. There has been an almost constant stream of news coming from the redesign of Radio Scotland and there remains a different slant to the arguments of political…
Measuring failure alone won't fix the NHS
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-wfpc9
Published: April 24, 2026 10:02
Political opponents have seized on a report from health think tank the Nuffield Trust on the performance of Scotland's NHS to describe it as “a damning reflection of the SNP’s neglect of our health service” - but it isn't. In some ways its more dispiriting…
Missing mental health workers are a warning
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-83zkp
Published: April 23, 2026 09:00
The Herald reports today that one in seven senior mental health roles in the country do not have a permanent member of staff in place and are either being filled with temporary locums or are vacant entirely. 85 consultant psychiatrist roles out of around…
Two social contracts, only one is broken
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-g3255
Published: April 22, 2026 09:04
A poll reported today is a case study in the meaning of 'the social contract' and why the political establishment misreads the issue so badly. Two thousand people aged between 16 and 29 in Britain were asked a range of questions and the disparity in…
Mad tech bosses must be stopped
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-6f9lb
Published: April 21, 2026 08:56
“Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.” So where else to look? “The elite’s intolerance of…
Scotland needs to reverse outsourcing of services
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-dzs2d
Published: April 20, 2026 09:39
An analysis carried out by the STUC (reported today) suggests that local authorities have increased their rate of outsourcing of public services by about 40 per cent over four years, and that this may be leading to £3 billion of private profit being…
The UK has blinked on protecting children; Holyrood must not
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-tw735
Published: April 17, 2026 09:49
Common Weal is not minded to believe Keir Starmer's words from yesterday. They appear to us to be clearly and unambiguously false – but they have nothing to do with Peter Mandelson.The words concerned are when, having whipped his MPs to reject a ban on…
Why we should keep taxing houses
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-bmht2
Published: April 16, 2026 09:22
The SSP has launched its Holyrood manifesto. Among it's policy prescriptions is the abolition of the Council Tax on the basis that it is very regressive. Clearly Common Weal could not agree more. But when we developed our own replacement policy we…
How to debunk the nuclear lies
https://www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefings/briefing-8khzn
Published: April 15, 2026 09:06
Common Weal urges Scotland's politicians not to take Common Weal's word for anything contained in this briefing. Instead, we would encourage them to find out this information for themselves via a series of short web searches.Today they are once again being…