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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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Climate Crisis

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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EU politics

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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Robin McAlpine – Is ‘disaster capitalism’ why no-one is taking Scotland’s economic crisis seriously?

September 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Robin McAlpine – Resilience Economics

June 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Robin McAlpine – Progress Needs the State, but the State Must Progress

May 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We have so many analyses on BRAVE NEW EUROPE, but no author dissects the reality of failing democracy in the EU better than Robin McAlpine and offering solid solutions to boot. Just substitute the name […]

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Robin McAlpine: ‘Green New Deal’ and ‘Green Deal’ are Opposites – We have to Choose

May 20, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

My perennial criticism of the Left is that it manages to be correct on high-level principles but bad at actually fighting the fight. As chatter about ‘afterwards’ grows and grows, it is even more important […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

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Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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