The Common Weal Policy Podcast

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The Common Weal Policy Podcast.A weekly podcast explaining our policies as well as discussing Scottish policy news and events.

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Episode #214 - General Election 2024

Jul 10 2024 72 mins  
Episode 214 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.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 ne

Episode #213 - Right To Roam

Jun 12 2024 35 mins  
Episode 213 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.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 fr

Episode #212 - Borrow Everything

Jun 05 2024 20 mins  
Episode 212 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, in lieu of a guest, Craig gives a presentation based on one of his public talks. He details what a Circular Economy actually means in contrast to the much more limited definition being used by the Scottish Government. Rather than merely "increasing recycling", he looks at the "nested

Episode #211 - The People's Bank

May 30 2024 44 mins  
Episode 211 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig is on holiday, so it’s Rory filling in. On today’s episode, Rory speaks to Dr Franziska Paul, Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Glasgow about a project she is currently working on alongside Professor Thomas Marois of McMaster University in Canada looking at

Episode #210 - Shifting The Power

May 09 2024 36 mins  
Episode 210 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Frances Guy, Chief Executive of SIDA, Common Weal Board Member and the Former UK Ambassador to Yemen. They discuss SIDA's new report looking at ways that Scotland and the UK can "shift the power" away from the Global North who have caused much injustice and damage throu

Episode #209 - Profit and Politics

May 01 2024 56 mins  
Episode 209 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Rory Hamilton about two major stories in Scottish politics this week. This first is the publication of our policy paper Profit Extraction which looks at the high levels of foreign ownership in the Scottish economy and how that leads to billions of pounds being pulled ou

Episode #208 - Basque Freedom

Apr 24 2024 41 mins  
Episode 208 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Igor Zulaika, one of the newly elected parliamentarians in the Basque Country's recent parliamentary elections which saw his party, the left-wing pro-independence EH Bildu, gain its highest ever vote share, just one seat shy of being the largest party in Parliament. The

Episode #207 - Rent Rise No More

Apr 17 2024 34 mins  
Episode 207 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Eilidh Keay from Living Rent about the state of the private rented sector in Scotland, what this means for tenants - especially when their rent is too high and/or their home is poorly maintained by their landlord and what the Scottish Government is about to do to bring

Episode #206 - Taxing Land

Apr 10 2024 47 mins  
Episode 206 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig is in the hotseat for a change as Rory Hamilton interviews him about his latest policy paper for Common Weal Taxing Land in Scotland. They discuss how to reform Council Tax into a Property Tax that matches the actual value of homes and then how to extend that tax to land, bringi

Episode #205 - Taxing Wealth

Apr 05 2024 52 mins  
Episode 205 of the Common Weal Policy PodcastYou can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Prof Richard Murphy about his new report Taxing Wealth 2024. The report examines the causes of the UK's wealth inequality and looks at the policies that could be implemented to mitigate against it, including reforms to National Insurance, Capital Gains Tax and tax relie