Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – COP26: First the Good News
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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Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine: Start Counting – why a Green New Deal needs to be quantified
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – Obama Blames Nationalism
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – How Much Would it Cost?
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – Circular Economy Subverted?
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. […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – Look away now if …
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 […]
Economics
Robin McAlpine: Solidarity isn’t just for Christmas – it’s a cold, hard strategy for a better world
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 […]
EU politics
Robin McAlpine: The Centre is Broken – Control did the Breaking
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 […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – Is ‘disaster capitalism’ why no-one is taking Scotland’s economic crisis seriously?
Many of you are probably wondering why BRAVE NEW EUROPE keeps posting these articles about Scotland? Who cares about Scotland, it is not even a nation? The reason is that Scotland is a microcosm of […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – Resilience Economics
Probably the most potent and impressive European social movement is in Scotland being organised by a progressive Scottish think-tank “Common Weal”. Its response to Coronacrisis. Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think tank […]