Episode 214 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, and for the final time for the podcast in this format, Craig talks to Robin McAlpine about the General Election results. How did Labour win such a massive landslide despite losing voterse, what happened to collapse the Conservatives, why didn't smaller parties do better and what is next for the UK, Scotland and the SNP.

You can read Robin's blog on how the SNP could revive themselves ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election here: http://robinmcalpine.org/the-snp-one-thing-at-a-time/

This is the final episode of the Common Weal Policy Podcast in this format, please listen to the announcement at the end of the show for more information but we'll be back with a revamp and a new format soon. Thank you to all of my listeners over the past six years. We won't be gone from your podcast list for long - Craig

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Episode 213 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Nadia Shaikh from the Right to Roam campaign, who are seeking the same right to access land in England as we in Scotland have enjoyed by statute for over two decades and by custom for many years longer than that. They discuss how 92% of England came to be locked away from the public, some of the parallels and points of divergence between Scotland and England in this regard, the peculiar case of the "access island" where land that is technically open to the public cannot be reached without trespassing and how land access isn't just a rural issue, with cities experiencing limits to land access via parks and other greenspaces being locked behind private gates.

You can learn more about the Right to Roam campaign here: https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/

More about Access Islands here: https://practical-emu.pikapod.net/access-islands/

And more about private parks in London here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvKvOUSor4

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Episode 204 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Andy Wightman, possibly Scotland's foremost expert on land reform, about the Scottish Government's new Land Reform Bill and his updated analysis of his Who Owns Scotland? report which shows that in the past decade or so, Scotland's already very concentrated patterns of land ownership have got even more so with just 433 people now owning 50% of Scotland's rural land.

Andy's report can be read here.

And his blog, including a detailed analysis of the Government's Bill, can be read here.

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Episode 115 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Roz Foyer, General Secretary of the Scottish Trade Unions Congress. STUC has campaigned on issues large and small around workers rights in Scotland and Craig and Roz discuss how unions have adapted to changing workplaces and more precarious employment, how companies have pushed back with anti-union campaigns of their own and where STUC members have safeguarded and expanded workers' rights in Scotland.

Roz will be speaking at an event on women in unions on March 2nd - details here.

The Common Weal paper on automation and other disruptive technologies in the workplace can be read here.

If you want to know more about how to join a union, organise labour in your place of work or what union memberships could mean for you, you can visit the STUC website here.

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Episode 114 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week Craig talks to Common Weal's new Networks Coordinator Leo Plumb about the importance of community organisation has in Scotland, how it has led to impressive changes in the face of seemingly overwhelming political power and what Common Weal is now doing to help organise and empower our own activists and volunteers.

If you want to join Common Weal's new Campaign Centre you can sign up here.

The Policy Podcast covered the Kenmure St demonstrations here and the campaign against the incinerator here.

If you are part of a community campaign and want to come on to the Policy Podcast to talk about it and to help encourage others with their local campaign please contact Craig at the email address below.

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Episode 113 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig is joined by Billy Kay. Writer, broadcaster and author of Scots: The Mither Tongue which has recently been released as an audiobook on Audible.
Scots is the second largest of Scotland's extant indigenous tongues with over 1.5 million speakers across Scotland and more in the broader Scots diaspora.

Once the primary language of court and law in Scotland it has been significantly eroded in use and prestige over several centuries both passively and by acts of deliberate repression.
However, recent years have seen a revival of interest in the language and Billy tells us how we can promote it in the public sphere and, most importantly, to speak and write it with the same pride as anyone would use any other language we know.

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Episode 112 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig is joined by two members of Common Weal's Energy Working Group - Keith Baker and Iain Wright - to discuss the ScotWind offshore wind auction and its implications for Scottish renewables.

ScotWind is the largest auction of Scottish offshore wind resources resulting in promises of 25GW of generating capacity built over more than 7,000km^2 of Scottish seabed and split across 17 different sites around the north of Scotland.

Proponents hail the billions of investment that will be required to build the project. As well as the £700 million in option fees collected by Crown Estate Scotland and the prospect of Somewhere in the region of £30-£50 million a year in annual rents.

Whilst the winners of the auction are almost entirely made up of foreign-owned energy companies (with 20% of the capacity being won by fossil fuel giants Shell and BP alone) Proponents promise that Scotland could still benefit from jobs created in the supply chain.

Common Weal produced our response last week calling for Scotland to build up capacity to Ensure that next time, we can have a much greater level of involvement from Scottish companies including a National Energy Company.

The article about Scottish supply chains with regards to ScotWind can be read here.

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Episode 111 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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Welcome to 2022 and Season 4 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

To start the year, the entire Common Weal team joins Craig on the show to talk about a film we all watched over the winter break. Don't Look Up is a film about a couple of astronomers discovery of an asteroid on collision course with Earth and their attempts to get politicians, the media, the public...anyone! to listen to them and do something about it.
The team discuss the analogy the film draws towards the reaction to climate change and our lack of action to avert it.

Caution, spoilers for Don't Look Up are present from the start of the podcast and continue throughout.

If you would like to read something a little more hopeful, you can buy a copy of our Common Home Plan here.

The T-shirt that Robin refers to can be purchased here.

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Episode 110 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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Apologies for the drop in audio quality in this episode. This was due to technical difficulties and Craig remote working due to (non-Covid) illness.

This week, Craig is joined by Bill Johnston to discuss their mutually co-written book All of Our Futures: Scotland’s ageing population and what to do about it. This book presents a comprehensive strategy for Scotland's ongoing demographic transition, how that must be done in a way that breaks down ageism systemic to our politics and economy and how doing this can present Scotland's older people with a Social Contract for a better, healthier and more inclusive life. They discuss some topics within the book such as how a neoliberal economy inevitably leads to ageism, how the politics of ageing is often far too short term and some specific policies from the book such as how an independent Scotland could overhaul the UK's broken pension sector.

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Episode 109 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast 

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This week, Craig talks once again to Tim Rideout. Currency expert and "controversial economist" who has campaigned for Scotland to set up its own independent currency so that its ready to launch "as soon as practicable" after independence. Last weekend he successfully won a vote at the SNP conference to instruct the party to draw up legislation to begin work on launching a Scottish Central Bank so that preparations can be started immediately after a successful independence referendum.

During the show, Craig references his interview with borders and customs expert, Bill Austin in Episode #37 of the Policy Podcast. You can listen to that show here.

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Episode 108 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week Craig talks to Robin McAlpine, Common Weal's Head of Strategic Development, about his observations of the COP26 conference, why the conference failed to deliver a plan to avert the climate emergency and what Scotland's strategy should be going forward from here.

The Bloomberg article that Craig mentions can be read here.

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Episode 107 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week Craig talks to Marc Burgauer, a coach in Agile and other workplace improvements , on the ways that work is changing in the wake of the pandemic. Many of us have transitioned to working from home - in whole or in part - but even where this has been successful it has opened up various disparities in the world of work. Many jobs can't be worked from home. Many people do not have home environments that allow them to easily work from there. Even the transition hasn't always been smooth and various technologies and working practices have started to emerge to allow offices to operate in a decentralised way. The discussion asks if this can be done only in a way that suits the workplace or if it can be done in a way that fosters and maintains the social connections formed at work - connections that can be vital to solidarity, collective bargaining and workers' rights.

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Episode 106 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig speaks to Prof. Mark Smith about a question so fundamental to a National Care Service that it must be answered if one is to be built successfully. Just, what is care, exactly? They discuss how the care sector in Scotland has largely failed to answer this question in the past - which has led to the disjointed and profit-driven sector we have today and why the Rights-based approach taken by the Scottish Government, whilst well meaning, will not lead to adequate outcomes unless coupled with the resources to protect the rights and the ability to uphold them.

Mark's paper can be read here.

Robin McAlpine's article on Rights can be read here.

And Mark's paper on trauma has been published in Issue 4 of volume 30 of Scottish Affairs (article paywalled).

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Episode 203 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Kristopher Leask from Community Energy Scotland and Josh Doble from Community Land Scotland about their new call to action paper A Fair Energy Deal for Communities. They discuss the state of community owned energy in Scotland, what the benefits are compared to the privatised model we more used to in Scotland. They also discuss some of the barriers facing communities who want to start their own community owned energy groups.

You can read the call to action paper here: https://staging2.communityenergyscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-Fair-Energy-Deal-Executive-Summary.pdf

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Episode 105 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Prof. Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK. They discuss the UK Spending Review, published today, paying attention to the promises made that can't be kept and the negative impact that many of the ones that can be will have especially on the most vulnerable people in society. They also take a look at COP26 - what it should achieve if it is to live up to its name but where and how it is likely to fall short of those ambitions.

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Episode 104 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast 

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This week, Craig talks to Dr Sarah Kyambi the Founder Director of the new think tank Migration Policy Scotland. They discuss the policy gaps in Scotland around migration, particularly outwith the areas of asylum and refugee migration, what Scotland is currently doing to close those gaps and where Scotland could be doing more.

 You can visit Migration Policy Scotland are their website and Twitter pages. 

The podcast with Colin Turbett on Community Hubs can be found here.

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Episode 103 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week Craig speaks to Kathy Jenkins Secretary of Scottish Hazards - A charity committed to improving workplace H&S, H&S officer of her Unite not for profit branch which organisers social care workers. She is also a member of Common Weal's Social Care Reform Working Group which is currently working on a comprehensive blueprint for a Scottish National Care Service.

Kathy talks about her latest policy paper for Common Weal on health and safety in the social care sector - both how it has been affected by the pandemic and the systemic issues that impacted the health and safety of social care workers before the pandemic struck.

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Episode 102 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast 

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This week, Craig talks to David Patrick, author of recently published book Front-Page Scotland which looks at how stories about Scottish independence were reported in the newspapers throughout the 2014 independence referendum campaign. They discuss how the framing of stories on topics such as economics depended largely on whether the points favoured one side of the campaign or the other, which topics were given a disproportionate amount of time in coverage and which people and personalities saw more coverage than others. Finally, they discuss lessons to be learned from the last campaign that could be applied now such as how activists can better examine news stories to assess if the issues are being reported fairly.

More information about the book can be found on the publisher's page here.

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Episode 101 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig speaks to Peter Ryan - expert on currency and banking systems and author of several papers for Common Weal and the Scottish Independence Convention on currency in an independent Scotland. They discuss recent radical changes to the global currency landscape with the creation of Central Bank Digital Currencies. These could potentially allow Central Banks to create money in the event of a future stimulus programme such as was needed in the wake of the Covid pandemic or the 2008 Financial Crisis but could do so in a way that means giving it directly to people rather than pumping up assets via Quantitative Easing and could allow Central Banks to avoid losing control of monetary policy due to the rise of cryptocurrencies or private digital currencies such as Facebook's Libra. Peter also discusses some of the risks of this policy such as the potential for the direct collection and control of data on what we buy and sell using our CBDC funds.

Finally, Peter talks about his work in the Scottish Green Party to bring forward a conference motion on a Financial Health Service.

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Episode 100 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week marks the 100th episode of the Common Weal Policy Podcast. To celebrate, Craig Dalzell is joined by Ellen Dalzell who asks him questions submitted by our audience. Thank you to everyone who has listened to and supported the show for the past 100 episodes.

The two blog articles that Craig refers to on the democratic routes to independence and the pressure campaign needed for it to succeed can be read behind the respective links.

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Episode 99 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig is joined by Marion Macleod - an expert in social care and education for children and author of Common Weal's latest policy paper on a strategic plan for childcare. They discuss the current patchwork state of child and early years care in Scotland, how the latest Programme for Government perpetuates that even if the policies themselves may be valuable and how things could be greatly improved by a strategic and holistic plan for care sitting within a National Care Service.

Colin Turbett's recent appearance on the podcast was also reference along with his paper on how a National Care Service can be delivered through local Community Hubs.

On episode 100 of the Policy Podcast, Craig would like to answer questions from the audience about any of Common Weal's policies or other work. If you have a question, please send it in to our Interim Director Amanda at amanda@common.scot.

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Episode 98 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Ellen Dalzell to discuss the Demographics of Independence. Ellen has campaigned for several years both for "New Scots" to be included in Scotland's democracy both through being able to vote - which they now can - but also for them to be better included in data that informs democratic campaigning. They discuss the current weaknesses in the data we have and how that has given rise to misconceptions about the voting intentions of New Scots. They then talk more broadly about the findings of Craig's latest policy paper that examines who has shifted from No to Yes since 2014 or vice versa.

Ellen's article in Source on data about New Scots can be read here.
Her article about current voting trends can be read here.
The policy paper the Demographics of Independence can be read here.

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Episode 97 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast 

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This week, Craig talks to SNP Policy Development Convenor Chris Hanlon and Agnes MacAuley from SNP Greenock & Inverclyde about the latest GERS figures and what they mean (and don't mean) for Scotland, independence and the post-pandemic recovery. They then discuss up and coming motions to the SNP conference that have been influenced by or based on Common Weal policies including one for a National Transport Company designed to help decarbonise our cars and other vehicles. Finally, they discuss the role of non-party think tanks in Scottish politics and what they can do that party affiliated policy groups cannot.

You can buy a copy of the Common Weal Common Home Plan here.
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Episode 96 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig is joined by three guests. Keith Baker of Common Weal's Energy Policy Group, Douglas Chapman, SNP MP for Dunfermline and West Fife and Ali Anderson, Senior Researcher for Mr Chapman. The four of them discuss the IPCC report that came out this week. The discuss the implications for Scotland and the world if we fail to act on the climate emergency and why this report represents the last change to make those changes. They then discuss Common Weal's latest policy paper 21 For 21 which offers 21 actions that the Scottish Government should take immediately in light of the IPCC report. 

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Episode 202 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Ben Wray from the Gig Economy Project who report on issues affecting gig workers and platform work around Europe and internationally. They discuss the new Platform Work Directive which will regulate and improve workers' rights within the gig economy in Europe. They also talk about the implications of Brexit both in terms of how it affected the politics of the legislation within the EU and how gig workers in Britain may be missing out on these new protections.

You can read more about the Gig Economy Project here: https://braveneweurope.com/the-gig-economy-project

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Episode 95 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast 

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This week Craig Dalzell talks to Shamus McPhee about his paper on and personal experiences of the "Tinker Housing Experiment", an attempt in Scotland to forcibly settle Gypsy Travellers in inadequate housing and to ethnically cleanse their culture and way of life. He speaks of his experiences growing up within the experiment and how it has left many people with irreparably damaged lives. He calls on the Scottish Government to issue a formal apology to the survivors of Scotland's treatment of Gypsy Travellers and to learn from these experiences to ensure that their voices are heard when making policies in the future.

The Uglier Side of Bonnie Scotland: The Tinker Housing Experiments can be read here.

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Episode 94 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Keith Baker, an energy poverty researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University and a member of Common Weal's Energy Working Group. They discuss Energy Performance Certificates - the framework by which building energy efficiency is measured in Scotland. Keith explains how EPCs work, the flaws in the models they use to generate their scores and what can be done to improve them.

You can read the paper written by Keith and Ron Mould on EPCs here.

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Episode 93 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Chris Hellawell and Alice McGillicuddy from Edinburgh Tool Library. They discuss what a tool library is, why they are the future of how we use tools and other goods and their reaction to the news that the Scottish Climate Assembly has called for the Scottish Government to create and support a network of such libraries across Scotland.

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Episode 92 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Gillian Mair and Alison Watters the Co-Convenors of Now Scotland, a members-led, grassroots organisation campaigning for Scottish independence as soon as possible. They discuss what Now Scotland is trying to add to the independence movement in terms of facilitating cross-group discussions and campaigning as well as several policy motions that the members of Now Scotland are presently advocating for within the organisation; namely for campaigning and messaging training, training in non-violent direct action campaigning, a focus on the climate emergency and for an independent Scotland to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

You can find out more about Now Scotland, including how to join the organisation at https://www.nowscotland.scot

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Episode 91 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to Colin Turbett, retired social care worker and member of the Common Weal Social Care Reform Group, about his new policy paper for Common Weal. Care in Your Community anchors a Scottish National Care Service in and around local communities via a Community Hubs model where your local hub becomes your first point of entry if you need care but also if you need to access other services from Citizens' Advice, through GP services, banking or simply be there to be a place to be part of community. The model is not a new idea - Colin gives the example of a similar idea emerging out of the aftermath of WWII - but it is a radical idea that could fill a similar role as we emerge from the aftermath of the pandemic.

You can read Colin's paper here.

You can also read his previous paper on reforming social work here.

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Episode 90 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to Kevin Anderson - a member of the Evidence Group of the Scottish Climate Assembly who recently published their final report listing 82 policy recommendations for the Scottish Government. They discuss the process by which the Assembly heard evidence from multiple experts (including Craig) on multiple aspects of climate issues, how the Assembly deliberated that evidence and formed it into their policy recommendations and which policies particularly caught Kevin and Craig's eye.

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Episode 89 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell speaks to Mark Hooper from Banc Cambria - a mutually-owned Community Bank in the process of starting up in Wales. Banc Cambria is based on a model of community banking developed by the Community Savings Bank Association which was also adopted by Common Weal in our paper on Community Banking by Gemma Bone Dodds which you can read here.

They discuss the problem of banks abandoning communities in Wales and Scotland and how this hollows out local economies and leaves people vulnerable to less stable financial services and unable to access the kind of in-person advice they might want when deciding to, for example, apply for a mortgage.

They also discuss the political history of the idea in Wales and how it has led up to the idea of Community Banking being adopted by the Welsh Government.

If you would like to contact your local politicians be they Councillors, Members of the Scottish Parliament/Welsh Senedd or Members of the House of Commons to encourage them to support community banking, you can find and write to them here.

Mark also mentioned his interest in how a Welsh Central Bank could work. In 2017, Craig wrote a paper on Scottish Central Banking which can be found here.

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Episode 88 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by two special guests. Alice Kinghorn-Gray from ERS Scotland and Will Stringer from the Sortition Foundation both here to discuss the ongoing campaign to create a Scottish House of Citizens - an upper chamber overseeing the Scottish Parliament that would be formed by residents of Scotland drawn randomly like a jury. Common Weal has previously published proposals for such a House of Citizens in our 2017 paper on the topic and it was last discussed on this podcast in 2020 when the Scottish Citizens' Assembly called for one as well.

The Declaration on Local Democracy mention by Alice can be found here and the petition calling for a House of Citizens can be signed here.

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Episode 87 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Prof Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK to discuss the G7's proposal for a global minimum corporation tax. Richard explains how the tax works and how it could be calculated then looks at the weaknesses and loopholes in the tax as well as news that the UK, having just agreed to the principle, is trying to carve out an exemption for the City of London.

Richard's policy paper on tax in an independent Scotland can be read here and his 2021 update to the paper for the Scottish Independence Convention can be read here.

The news story about the City of London exemption can be read here.

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Episode 86 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Keith Baker, member of Common Weal's Energy Working Group, to discuss the ongoing campaign to revolutionise Scotland's energy sector. They discuss the campaign for a Scottish Energy Development Agency, the revitalised interest in a National Energy Company, how these agencies would link together in a Green New Deal Scotland and how it could be paid for via the Scottish National Investment Bank. Finally, they discuss the news of organisations in Scotland divesting their pension funds from fossil fuels and how this could be leveraged to help with Scotland's energy revolution.

If you would like to get in touch with your MSP to tell them about any of the issues raised in this podcast, you can find and reach them here.

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Episode 201 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to Simon Jones, a long time Common Weal supporter and activist, about a newly proposed £20 million regeneration scheme in his home town of Dumfries. They discuss the importance of Scotland's towns to our communities, the importance of long term planning in those proposals, Scotland's problem with "Central Belt" thinking vs "Remote", and why the UK Government - funders of this plan - have entirely the wrong idea about approaches to "tackle anti-social behaviour".

You can read Common Weal's vision for our towns here: https://commonweal.scot/policies/town-centre-action-plan-review-common-weal-response/
and here: https://commonweal.scot/policies/housekeeping-scotland-discussion-paper-outlining-a-new-agenda-for-housing/

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Episode 85 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell discuss the first 100 days of the Scottish Parliament and the priorities that the Government has laid out to shape the upcoming Parliamentary session. They also talk about the formal negotiations between the SNP and the Greens to explore the possibility of a formal cooperation agreement between the two parties. Finally, they discuss the prospect of another independence referendum within this Parliament given the pro-independence majority in the Chamber.

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Episode 84 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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Update - 21/05/21 - Angus Robertson has had Migration and related topics added to his brief as Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs.

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Campaigner, Activist and Creative Director for EU Citizens for an Independent Scotland, Ellen Dalzell. Ellen and Craig talk about their experiences of the Kenmure Street protest against Home Office evictions and then discuss the apparent weakening focus of the Scottish Government on migration matters culminating in their dropping of Migration from the titles of the new Cabinet Secretaries or any of their Junior Ministers. Ellen also talks about her campaign for policies to help safeguard and secure migrants in Scotland and the progress of that campaign since she last discussed it on Episode #27 of the Policy Podcast.

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Episode 83 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Common Weal's Communications Officer Becki Menzies to discuss the Holyrood election results, the successes for the Parliament in terms of turnout and increased diversity and some of the major policies that the Parliament should and could implement as a priority since there is apparently a cross-party consensus on them.

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Episode 82 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell look at some of the party manifestos ahead of the Scottish Elections. In particular they note that many policies that Common Weal have been campaigning for years have been adopted by multiple political parties and now look more like "when, not if" Scotland will implement them. Examples include Universal Basic Income, the Circular Economy and Housing in the Green New Deal.

They also discuss Common Weal's recent paper Better Than This which lays out the eight policies that we think we should be talking about this election.

Craig has a collection of many of the political manifestos on his personal blog here.

Apologies for the background noise in this episode due to construction.

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Episode 81 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to John Young from the Dovesdale Action Group which is campaigning locally against the construction of a waste incinerator in South Lanarkshire and is campaigning nationally for a moratorium on all new incinerators in Scotland.

You can join the Dovesdale Action Group's Facebook page here.

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Episode 80 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to Donald McPhillimy and Callum Blackburn about their recent policy paper for Common Weal, A Mosaic of Life. The paper was part of our recent Land Reform Week and provides a vision of what a "Half-Wild Scotland" would look like if our proposals for Land Reform were fully implemented.

If you're interested in conversations about land reform and rewilding, you can take part in them by joining the Rewilding Scotland Facebook group here.

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Episode 78 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by two special guests from Scotland's Climate Assembly. Iain Stewart was the Lead Communicator on the Assembly and Ellie Clarke was one of the 100 people chosen to represent Scotland on the Assembly as they discussed the issues raised by the climate emergency and what Scotland could do about them. They each talk about their experiences and perspectives gained from being members of the Assembly and Craig touches on his experience as one of the people invited to provide evidence to it.

They then look at how the Citizens' Assembly model could be used in the future to look at other big topics of discussion.

You can read the Climate Assembly's Interim Report, published today, here. The full report will be published in May.

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Episode 78 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell discuss Common Weal's Land Reform Week. In particular, they look at our latest policy papers Work The Land - which illustrates the economic impact of creating tens of thousands of new jobs in Scotland's rural communities - and Our Land - which shows how the Scottish Government could enact radical land reform now to make that all happen.

Common Weal's previous work on land reform includes our Common Home Plan and Back to Life, a vision for reforming Scotland's grouse moors.

Craig also mentions this news story which reports on the £5 billion of "investment" capital looking to try to capture Scotland's land for its own ends. 

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Episode 77 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to special guest Colin Turbett. Colin is a retired social worker who now writes on reform of the sector. He is a member of Common Weal's Care Reform Working Group and is currently working with the group on a blueprint for a National Care Service.

Colin's upcoming paper for the group looks at reform of the social work sector, arguing that the sector has been greatly eroded over the past several decades and now focuses too much on post-interventionist care of people who have already been failed by society rather than being a preventative force in Scotland's social security network.

Colin's paper will be published in the near future.

Nick Kempe's paper on Covid and care homes, mentioned in the podcast, can be read here.

The Care Reform Group's submission to the Feeley Review can be read here and their Manifestof for a National Care Service can be found here.

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Episode 76 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell introduce Common Weal's latest Policy Paper - A Property Tax for Scotland. Our proposal to replace the outdated and unfair Council Tax with a tax based on the actual value of land and buildings.

This tax would scrap the banding system and the bizarre method of calculating which house goes into which band and replace it with a tax that is simply calculated based on a percentage of the market value of the property with a rate of 0.63% being calculated as one that raises the same revenue as the current Council Tax does.

They also discuss how this paper would link into Common Weal's broader work on improving housing such as our plans for Rent Controls, Social Housing Building, Land Value Capture and more.

Craig also pays tribute to Bill Austin who passed away last week. Bill co-wrote Common Weal's paper on customs and borders in an independent Scotland and was a guest on the podcast in 2020.

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Episode 200 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig talks to William Thomson from Scotonomics about their upcoming event The Festival of Economics which seeks to debunk and demystify economics and to explore innovations and new theories in economics as well as to explore the topics and policies affecting Scotland right now.

You can buy tickets for the conference here: https://scotonomics.scot/festival-of-economics/

William's recent article in The National can be read here: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24148528.scotonomics-expose-major-myth-worlds-economies/

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Episode 75 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell welcome the publication of the final report of the Citizens' Assembly, in particular their adoption of a series of policies that align well with similar policies previously published by Common Weal.

They then discuss the ongoing political crisis in the US with last week's attack on the US Senate and the imminent prospect for the second impeachment of Donald Trump in the closing days of his term as President. Finally, they look at the procurement scandal in England that has seen vulnerable kids send food parcels that are entirely inadequate for their needs. Whilst this incident hasn't happened in Scotland, it serves as a reflection of many of the similar political failures here that have seen private companies skim vast profits out of public services via mechanisms such as PFI - which Common Weal has campaign against on many occasions.

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Episode 74 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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Welcome to 2021 and the start of a new series of the Common Weal Policy Podcast.

This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell discuss the new national lockdown prompted by the accelerating spread of Covid-19 and what we must now do to prevent an endless cycle of lockdowns in the months to come. They also discuss the UK's strategy of delaying the deploying of the 2nd dose of vaccines in favour of trying to give more people their first dose despite warnings that the vaccine was not tested to be used in this way and worries from NHS staff that this may leave them at risk. Finally, they discuss how the vaccine nevertheless gives us hope of coming out of this period of crisis and what we can start to do to prepare for the recovery we need afterwards.

The Resilent Scotland Plan can be read here.

Indonesia's experimental vaccine strategy has been reported here.

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Episode 73 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, in the final Policy Podcast of 2020, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell look back at this historic year, reflect on the impact that the pandemic has had on Scotland and on everything that Common Weal has done throughout 2020. They then look forward at our plans - as much as they can be made - for 2021 and beyond.The Resilent Scotland Plan can be read here.

And Common Weal's Green New Deal blueprint - the Common Home Plan can be read here and the books are on sale here.

Apologies for the drop in sound quality in this episode. This is due to the technical limitations imposed by the pandemic.

Common Weal's online shop is now closed for the remainder of 2020 but once it reopens in the New Year you will be able to support our various campaigns by buying our books, t-shirts, mugs and more or you can buy one of our new e-vouchers and gift someone a donation to us in their name.You can visit the shop here.

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