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The Common Weal Policy Podcast

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215 episodes

7 months ago

Episode 214 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, and for the final time for the podcast in this format, Craig talks to Robin McAlpine about the General Election results. How did Labour win such a massive landslide despite losing voterse, what happened to collapse the Conservatives, why didn't smaller parties do better and what is next for the UK, Scotland and the SNP.You can read Robin's blog on how the SNP could revive themselves ahead of the...

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Episode 214 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, and for the final time for the podcast in this format, Craig talks to Robin McAlpine about the General Election results. How did Labour win such a massive landslide despite losing voterse, what happened to collapse the Conservatives, why didn't smaller parties do better and what is next for the UK, Scotland and the SNP.You can read Robin's blog on how the SNP could revive themselves ahead of the...

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The Common Weal Policy Podcast

Episode #214 - General Election 2024

Episode 214 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, and for the final time for the podcast in this format, Craig talks to Robin McAlpine about the General Election results. How did Labour win such a massive landslide despite losing voterse, what happened to collapse the Conservatives, why didn't smaller parties do better and what is next for the UK, Scotland and the SNP.You can read Robin's blog on how the SNP could revive themselves ahead of the...

1 year ago

1 hour 12 minutes

The Common Weal Policy Podcast

Episode #213 - Right To Roam

Episode 213 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Nadia Shaikh from the Right to Roam campaign, who are seeking the same right to access land in England as we in Scotland have enjoyed by statute for over two decades and by custom for many years longer than that. They discuss how 92% of England came to be locked away from the public, some of the parallels and points of divergence between Scotland and England in this regard, the pe...

1 year ago

35 minutes

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Episode #212 - Borrow Everything

Episode 212 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, in lieu of a guest, Craig gives a presentation based on one of his public talks. He details what a Circular Economy actually means in contrast to the much more limited definition being used by the Scottish Government. Rather than merely "increasing recycling", he looks at the "nested loops" that make up a Circular Economy as products are redesigned, reused, repaired, and recycled. In particular,...

1 year ago

20 minutes

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Episode #211 - The People's Bank

Episode 211 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig is on holiday, so it’s Rory filling in. On today’s episode, Rory speaks to Dr Franziska Paul, Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Glasgow about a project she is currently working on alongside Professor Thomas Marois of McMaster University in Canada looking at public banks and sustainable finance. Rory spoke at a workshop organised by Franziska last week, bringing to life Com...

1 year ago

44 minutes

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Episode #210 - Shifting The Power

Episode 210 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Frances Guy, Chief Executive of SIDA, Common Weal Board Member and the Former UK Ambassador to Yemen. They discuss SIDA's new report looking at ways that Scotland and the UK can "shift the power" away from the Global North who have caused much injustice and damage through the climate emergency and centuries of colonialisation and imperialism and to help create a much more just and...

1 year ago

36 minutes

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Episode #209 - Profit and Politics

Episode 209 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Rory Hamilton about two major stories in Scottish politics this week. This first is the publication of our policy paper Profit Extraction which looks at the high levels of foreign ownership in the Scottish economy and how that leads to billions of pounds being pulled out of the country every year. The second is the collapse of the SNP-Green cooperation agreement, the resignation o...

1 year ago

56 minutes

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Episode #208 - Basque Freedom

Episode 208 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Igor Zulaika, one of the newly elected parliamentarians in the Basque Country's recent parliamentary elections which saw his party, the left-wing pro-independence EH Bildu, gain its highest ever vote share, just one seat shy of being the largest party in Parliament. They discuss the history of the Basque national movement, the landscape of politics in the Basque Country (including...

1 year ago

41 minutes

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Episode #207 - Rent Rise No More

Episode 207 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Eilidh Keay from Living Rent about the state of the private rented sector in Scotland, what this means for tenants - especially when their rent is too high and/or their home is poorly maintained by their landlord and what the Scottish Government is about to do to bring in effective rent controls, improve tenants rights and conditions in rented homes.You can read Living Rent/Common...

1 year ago

34 minutes

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Episode #206 - Taxing Land

Episode 206 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig is in the hotseat for a change as Rory Hamilton interviews him about his latest policy paper for Common Weal Taxing Land in Scotland. They discuss how to reform Council Tax into a Property Tax that matches the actual value of homes and then how to extend that tax to land, bringing in around £450 million a year in additional revenue for Scottish Local Authorities.You can read the paper here...

1 year ago

47 minutes

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Episode #205 - Taxing Wealth

Episode 205 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Prof Richard Murphy about his new report Taxing Wealth 2024. The report examines the causes of the UK's wealth inequality and looks at the policies that could be implemented to mitigate against it, including reforms to National Insurance, Capital Gains Tax and tax reliefs on savings such as ISAs and pension funds.You can read the Taxing Wealth report here: https://taxingwealth.ukC...

1 year ago

52 minutes

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Episode #204 - Who Still Owns Scotland?

Episode 204 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Andy Wightman, possibly Scotland's foremost expert on land reform, about the Scottish Government's new Land Reform Bill and his updated analysis of his Who Owns Scotland? report which shows that in the past decade or so, Scotland's already very concentrated patterns of land ownership have got even more so with just 433 people now owning 50% of Scotland's rural land.Andy's report c...

1 year ago

40 minutes

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Episode #203 - Powering Communities

Episode 203 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Kristopher Leask from Community Energy Scotland and Josh Doble from Community Land Scotland about their new call to action paper A Fair Energy Deal for Communities. They discuss the state of community owned energy in Scotland, what the benefits are compared to the privatised model we more used to in Scotland. They also discuss some of the barriers facing communities who want to st...

1 year ago

29 minutes

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Episode #202 - Platform Work

Episode 202 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Ben Wray from the Gig Economy Project who report on issues affecting gig workers and platform work around Europe and internationally. They discuss the new Platform Work Directive which will regulate and improve workers' rights within the gig economy in Europe. They also talk about the implications of Brexit both in terms of how it affected the politics of the legislation within th...

1 year ago

35 minutes

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Episode #201 - Long Term Towns

Episode 201 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Simon Jones, a long time Common Weal supporter and activist, about a newly proposed £20 million regeneration scheme in his home town of Dumfries. They discuss the importance of Scotland's towns to our communities, the importance of long term planning in those proposals, Scotland's problem with "Central Belt" thinking vs "Remote", and why the UK Government - funders of this plan -...

1 year ago

32 minutes

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Episode #200 - Redefining Economics

Episode 200 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to William Thomson from Scotonomics about their upcoming event The Festival of Economics which seeks to debunk and demystify economics and to explore innovations and new theories in economics as well as to explore the topics and policies affecting Scotland right now.You can buy tickets for the conference here: https://scotonomics.scot/festival-of-economics/William's recent article in...

1 year ago

29 minutes

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Episode #199 - Unpausing Care

Episode 199 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Nick Kempe, Convenor of the Common Weal Care Reform Group, about the return of the National Care Service Bill to the Scottish Parliament within the next couple of weeks. They discuss why Common Weal campaigned for a pause to the Bill process, how we've engaged with the co-design process in the time since and what we expect from the Bill when it returns. They also discuss the Care ...

1 year ago

32 minutes

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Episode #198 - March For Scran

Episode 198 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week Craig talks to Heather from the direct action group This Is Rigged about their upcoming March for Scran - a protest on February 18th 2024 starting at 11am from Garnethill Park in Glasgow. They discuss the reasons for food insecurity in Scotland, the rise of foodbank demand coinciding with a drop in donations and funding to meet that demand and what the Scottish Government could do to alleviate th...

1 year ago

23 minutes

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Episode #197 - Confronting Consultations

Episode 197 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Common Weal's own Nicola Biggerstaff about the various public consultations that we're currently taking part in such as the proposal for an Ecocide Bill, the UK Parliament's consultation on the sustainability of the UK's debt, work on the Scottish Circular Economy Bill, proposals for better local democracy and more. Craig also shares some hints and tips for folk who wish to respon...

1 year ago

36 minutes

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Episode #196 - Failure to Prevent

Episode 196 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Prof Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow and UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, about the devastation of Gaza, the recent ruling by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide as a result of Israel's actions and on the defunding of UNRWA by many states in the immediate aftermath...

1 year ago

1 hour

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Episode #195 - The State of Happiness

Episode 195 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.Welcome to Season 6 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast. This year's theme is "Activate" so if you have a story to tell about an interesting thing happening in your community or if you're involved in a campaign to change things for the better, then please get in touch and we'll get you on the show to talk about it.This week, Craig talks to Lesley Riddoch about her new film Denmark: The State of Happiness. De...

1 year ago

45 minutes