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Robin McAlpine – More Oil or Post-Oil Economy

December 2, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The situation in Scotland with decarbonising  is the same as in the rest of Europe: Net Zero Change. Although explicitly about Scotland, there are many good universal points in this article making it well worth […]

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Robin McAlpine – Scotland: The counter-revolution

November 27, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Scottish National Party (SNP) making Scotland fit for EU neo-liberal democracy Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and do tank Common Weal. Cross-posted from Robin’s Blog RobinMcAlpine.Org Creative CommonsAttribution 2.0 Generic […]

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Robin McAlpine – COP26: First the Good News

November 18, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

We did not plan to post any more COP26 articles, but we felt this was well worth a read. It is short and forward looking. Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and […]

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Robin McAlpine: Start Counting – why a Green New Deal needs to be quantified

November 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Robin McAlpine’s talk in our series “Economic beyond the Swabian hausfrau” from 9 November 2021 You can’t save the world if you don’t do the work. A Green New Deal is at heart a large […]

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Robin McAlpine – Obama Blames Nationalism

November 11, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

In his speech to COP26, Barack Obama told the world that the reason we’re not tackling climate change is because of ‘nationalism’. This comment may have been ignorance, myopia or bad faith, but it is […]

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Robin McAlpine – How Much Would it Cost?

October 7, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Climate change cannot be stopped by individual solutions. It demands nationwide measures  carried out by the state. Once again Common Weal breaking house energy efficiency down into a real, financed plan. Robin McAlpine is the […]

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Robin McAlpine – Circular Economy Subverted?

September 9, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Scotland’s Think and Do Tank “Common Weal” is probably unique in the world with its practical programmes in all fields of life, but also its willingness and courage to critically engage with establishment political parties. […]

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Robin McAlpine – Look away now if …

August 12, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Scotland is just a microcosm of the rest of Europe. Just substitute the name of your nation and replace a few names. Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and do tank Common […]

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Robin McAlpine: Solidarity isn’t just for Christmas – it’s a cold, hard strategy for a better world

December 23, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

A Christmas message from Scotland’s Robin McAlpine. It is one we universally  share. Either we grasp the reality we are in and pull together, or much, much worse is to come. Although we do our […]

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Robin McAlpine: The Centre is Broken – Control did the Breaking

November 4, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Extreme Centre goes from one fiasco to the next. Their raison d’être? At least we aren’t fascists or socialists. They have no programme except the propagation of their vacuous superiority. This is the liberal-democratic […]

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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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