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The Common Weal Policy Podcast

The Common Weal Policy Podcast.A weekly podcast explaining our policies as well as discussing Scottish policy news and events.

10/07/2024

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...

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12/06/2024

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...

35 min
05/06/2024

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,...

20 min
30/05/2024

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...

44 min
09/05/2024

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...

36 min
01/05/2024

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...

57 min
24/04/2024

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...

41 min
17/04/2024

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...

35 min

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Episode #22 - Robin McAlpine on Independence and the Green New Deal

September 5th, 2019Common WealEpisode 22 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastThis week Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine, and campaigns officer, Jonathon Shafi, discuss the chaos in Westminster and the need for independence and a Green New Deal.Robin gives a teaser of what to expect from our major new policy and campaign on a Scottish Green New Deal, and connects this with the breakdown of the British state. We have the ideas that will see us transition to independence, while transforming...

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Great Pod

12/08/2020

SamMLG

Very informative and accessible.
Brilliant!

15/02/2020

phaedrus94

The Common Weal gives concise, well thought out arguments relevant to Scotland’s present and future.
Erudition on the move

25/07/2019

Kairin v

Learn about the Common Weal policy papers as you walk, clean, run or even sitting on yer bum sipping a latte. Thank you all at Common Weal.

The Common Weal Policy Podcast.A weekly podcast explaining our policies as well as discussing Scottish policy news and events.

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