Continuing our series of briefing sheets on housing in the run-up to the Scottish elections, researcher Rona MacNicol looks at the position of social housing in Scotland post right-to-buy, and what role it could play in Scotland's housing mix in the future
To kick-off a new Common Weal Policy pre-election series on housing, Leah Aaron looks at Scotland's existing housing stock and poses some possible solutions as well as questions for those standing to be our elected representatives in May
COMMON WEAL Policy introduces a new series of briefing sheets in the run-up to the Scottish elections on housing. We believe this issue is at the heart of the problems with Britain's me-first economy, and requires closer scrutiny than it currently receives in Scottish politics.
Survey by Dr Iain Black and Sara Marsden largest and most comprehensive set of data on the independence movement
ON the day Scotland would have become an independent country if it voted Yes in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, researchers have published the results of the largest and most comprehensive survey of Yes volunteers to have been conducted so far.
New Common Weal report authored by Iain Cairns, Andrew Cumbers, Mike Danson, Iain Docherty, Pat Kane, Gordon Morgan, Robin McAlpine, Robert McMaster, Willie Sullivan, and Geoffrey Whittam
COMMON WEAL has published a new report by 10 economists and radical economic thinkers making the case for an industrial policy to re-balance the Scottish economy and boost productivity.
Common Weal head of policy and research Ben Wray analyses why George Osborne's austerity plans keep failing even on their own terms, and finds key lessons for building a alternative economic strategy in Scotland that is "contra-Osborne"
The new report outlining a plan for an alternative 'people's' banking network in Scotland is a New Economics Foundation, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Move Your Money and Common Weal collaboration
COMMON WEAL has published a new report alongside three other campaign groups and think-tanks arguing for new 'People's banks' to balance out the "unstable and unfit for purpose" domination of the financial sector by big commercial banks in Scotland.
The real UK debt problem is personal debt and is being actively promoted by the Chancellor through austerity and quantitative easing for the "parasite banks". Many people in Scotland are on the brink financially, but one group in society benefits - Britain's banking sector
Common Weal Policy look at recent comments from the OECD and IMF arguing for public investment rather than austerity for the UK economy. There are few economists left who would defend Osborne's economic "lunacy", but the Chancellor has bigger fish to fry - he's trying to become Prime Minister...
New Common Weal report argues that powers set to be devolved in the Scotland Bill are limited, but on child benefit and pensions provide some room for a progressive, universalist approach
COMMON WEAL has today [18 February] published a new report looking at what the Scottish Parliament can do with new powers set to be devolved in the Scotland Bill on social security.