Àdhamh Ó Broin, linguistic activist and Gaelic consultant on Outlander, talks about his work to revive an Argyllshire dialect of Gaelic.

WITH only a handful of speakers of the dialect left, Àdhamh made the decision to bring his kids up with the Dalriada Gaelic. He has also spent years touring Argyll in order to record living examples of the dialect, while he still can. 

In the face of the world’s climate emergency, a Green New Deal has been proposed to address it. 

AHEAD of CommonSpace’s forum on a Green New Deal on Thursday 29^th August, and the launch of the Scottish Green’s proposals for a Green New Deal which is also being published on Thursday, CommonSpace spoke to Common Weal’s Dr Craig Dalzell about why the Green New Deal is so urgent, and what it will entail for Scotland. 

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines.

IN a special podcast, Beyond the Noise teamed up with All Hail to the Pod's Jim Slaven in Edinburgh to discuss the contemporary crisis of the British state and the significance of class politics.

Among other things they discuss:

55 per cent now think more decisions should be made via referenda – down from 76 per cent

Writer and journalist Alastair Stewart argues that a new breed of pundits who wear their political affiliations on their sleeve undermines the balance in politics between commentators and politicians

SEVERAL years ago there was a Question Time moment that has stuck in my head ever since. Russell Brand was going through a phase of being seriously considered as a new maverick politico with a legitimate argument to make. He even released a book, Revolution (it really was just a stream of conscious though strung together with non-sequiturs and the odd chapter). 

Last week, far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was elected in Brazil. He has said leftists will have to "go overseas, or go to jail", is an open admirer of when Brazil was a military dictatorship and takes pride in his misogyny and homophobia. His rise is part of a far-right wave, including in Donald Trump's election in the US and Matteo Salvini in Italy.

Common Weal director Robin McAlpine says the nature of public debate is becoming increasingly nasty and personalised – only the far-right will win from this

IT IS a sad truth about humanity that whenever we create a new piece of technology, someone will try to use it as a weapon, will try to use it to hurt others.

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a new weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 outrage-driven social media news circus and gets to heart of issues, trying to finding the substance behind the headlines.

IN THIS episode, Jamieson looks at the crisis and decline of the media in Scotland and the UK on the weekend of the Sunday Herald's last edition.