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Robin McAlpine – Europe is not in a good way…

November 30, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

In Scotland we tend to take an excessively positive position on the European Union. But after spending time with experts from a dozen European countries, there aren’t many others who share our optimism. Robin McAlpine […]

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Climate Crisis

Robin McAlpine – A way to skip the world war ahead

November 5, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Confronted with a climate and geopolitical disaster what now? Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Commom Weal Elsewhere I have described what is happening in Israel/Palestine as an […]

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Corruption

Robin McAlpine – WhatsApp corruption was in plain sight from the beginning

October 31, 2023 David Shirreff 0

It has taken a remarkably long time for the Scottish Government to be held to account for what is clearly breaches of acceptable practice in record-keeping. Let’s hope the Covid Inquiry becomes a final reckoning […]

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Robin McAlpine: Dark things are happening in Britain’s media

October 24, 2023 David Shirreff 0

A few web searches will reveal that the UK media is, as one, suppressing and hiding crucial information about the world from you. It is no longer wise to assume that you’re being told the […]

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National Politics

Robin McAlpine – C’mon the broken people

October 13, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Many Europeans are reeling from the realisation that their corrupt political class has sold us and our values down the river. But then we have been here before. Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish […]

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Corruption

Robin McAlpine – A community-destroying corporation is mounting a massive operation in Scotland

September 17, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Different communities, in two different countries – one being Scotland the other Italy, and how one corporation is rapaciously damaging them both. Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from […]

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Climate Crisis

Robin McAlpine: Humanity relies on us getting our pitch right

August 9, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Focused on Scotland but relevant everywhere: how to convince a sceptical public that radical climate action can be good for them? Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Robin […]

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Climate Crisis

Robin McAlpine – The three philosophies which aren’t climate change denial

August 3, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a great week for climate change deniers and a disaster for children – so it is helpful to understand properly the three political philosophies which offer an alternative. They’re not all equal. Robin […]

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Climate Crisis

Robin McAlpine – We need a collective response to climate disaster, not punitive individualism

July 27, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

As one European government after the other – most recently Germany – is foiled in its neo-liberal climate policies, the simple solution of the state leading the way based on social policy is anathema. Robin […]

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EU politics

Robin McAlpine – Why being in Wales makes me happy

February 5, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

What’s different about the Welsh independence movement. Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Common Weal It is becoming a real pleasure to me when I get to visit […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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