Why I'm Voting Against The SNP/Green Deal

Analysis of this year's annual GERS report.

Why Scotland should move beyond defending "Civic Nationalism" and advocate for a Post-Nationalist vision of independence.

This is a test of a new Youtube version of the Common Weal Policy Podcast. Please let me know how it looks and sounds - especially the quality and accuracy of the auto-captions.
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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...

An analysis of the 2021 Scottish Elections.

An open letter to our new politicians

Robin McAlpine Polls SIC on Currency
~800 people asked which currency they'd prefer for an independent Scotland. Sterling, Euro or a Scottish currency.

Scottish Independence Convention 140116

Independence Referendum 2014.

The Q&A portion of the Lanark Public Meeting featuring:

Craig Dalzell - Yes Clysdale researcher and activist
Aileen Campbell MSP - Scottish Government Minister for Children and Young People
Jim Sillars - Former Labour and SNP politician.

Independence Referendum 2014.

The Q&A portion of the Lanark Public Meeting featuring:

Craig Dalzell - Yes Clydesdale researcher and activist.
Phillipa Whitford - NHS Consultant Surgeon
Isobel Lindsay - Scottish CND
Suzanne Kimm - English Scots for Yes

My final public meeting of the 2014 Independence Referendum and my first giving an actual speech rather than merely sitting in on the Q&A's

A Guide on How To Vote in the Scottish Elections.

A collection of the political party manifestos ahead of the Scottish Elections.

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.” – Lauren Myracle There have been a few articles popping up lately extolling the virtues and the potentials of converting part of your home into an office. Take this article in the Financial Times from January as an example. A year since … Continue reading Working Towards A Different Future

“Remember that political parties are tools, and don’t let yourselves turn into party tools.” ― Ted Mallory, Prophet, Priest, & Pirate A year ago today, Common Weal published “Within Our Grasp” – a policy paper describing an escalating pressure campaign designed to compel the UK Government to either sanction a Section 30 order for a second independence …...

With nuclear weapons soon to be made illegal, what will the implications be for Scotland and independence?

Alison Johnstone of the Scottish Greens asked the Scottish Government at Portfolio Questions for a response to Common Weal's paper "Warning Lights: Ten Actions for Covid Elimination".

You can read the policy paper here: commonweal.scot/...limination

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We Need To Talk About: GERS (2019-2020 Edition)The UK is Pooling more than it Shares

With apologies to Wham! Last GERSmas, I gave you my statsBut the very next day you debunked them awayThis year, to save you from FearI’ll give you my Transfers Fiscal   Last GERSmas, I gave you my statsBut the very next day you debunked them awayThis year, to save you from FearI’ll give you my … Continue reading Last GERSmas

In May 1964 Journalist and Missionary George Patterson snuck into Tibet with Director Adrian Cowell and Cameraman Chris Menges to chronicle a raid by Tibetan resistance fighters on the occupying Chinese army.

This film represents one of the very few documented accounts of the resistance and only made it to public...

How to mount an escalating pressure campaign to win independence.