Good Housing for a Good Life
Sarah Glynn, housing expert at UWS, outlines how we can achieve affordable social housing for all.
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The Common Weal in the Built Environment
Malcolm Fraser, Edinburgh based architect, explains how we can plan our towns to make them healthy and happy places to live in.
An Industrial Policy for Scotland
Mike Danson, Professor of Enterprise Policy at Heriot-Watt University, looks at how Scotland can build an economy that puts all of us first through an industrial policy for Scotland.
Common Weal Investment
Iain Cairns, researcher with the Reid Foundation, proposes a new approach to public finance and investment that breaks with the UK's neoliberal dogma.
Community Banking
Gordon Morgan, researcher with the Reid Foundation, makes the case for community banking to build local economies.
Personal Finance for social need
Katherine Trebeck, research & policy advisor for Oxfam, looks at what we need to do to create secure and sufficient personal finance.
Time for Life
Gillian Wales, co-author of recent Reid Foundation report on working time, looks at the report and how it could transform work/life balance in Scotland
Sculpting our own footprint
Dr John McDonald, Director of the Scottish Global Forum, looks at the defence and security challenges that would face an independent Scotland
Engaging not Threatening
Isobel Lindsay argues that we need to change the defence discourse
It’s All About Unions
Jackson Cullinane argues that the Reid Foundation report on industrial democracy will not address the problems of capitalism because it does not put trade unions centre stage in all workplace matters