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2) Robin - Resist inflation madness www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag... 3) Megan - We need to talk about migration like adults www.commonweal.scot/articles/we-... 4) Craig - Burnham's plans are a warning to the Scottish Government www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

This week's Common Weal Magazine! Support our crowdfunder: www.commonweal.scot/crowdfunder Subscribe to the Magazine: www.commonweal.scot/subscribe This week's articles: 1) Craig - The pension triple lock is a problem that the double lock won't solve www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...

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There is an existing framework which could be used to develop something appropriate for domestic and commercial properties: The David Bellamy Blooming Marvellous Award. www.harpa.org.uk/kb.bhhpa.org...

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David Bellamy Blooming Marvellous Pledge for Nature | HARPA

The David Bellamy Blooming Marvellous Pledge for Nature helps parks conserve and protect wildlife. It involves completing yearly challenges and committing to five key steps: Improving existing habitat...

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I would like to see an eco rating for gardens and outdoor spaces as part of property valuation surveys. Paved front spaces rate poorly, spaces which are nature friendly (fruiting trees, gaps below fences for hedgehogs, etc.) rate highly. Normalise Nature having worth.

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Our garden's resident hedgehog would approve of this policy. I do too. Great idea.

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Finally, Local Government Reform – But it must be done right!

CW Magazine Repost The Scottish Government’s sudden push for local government reform should be welcomed but their proposal as it stands needs a lot of work to make sure that it’s not a chaotic mess or a recipe for corruption and centralisation.

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The Scottish Government’s sudden push for local government reform should be welcomed but their proposal as it stands needs a lot of work to make sure that it’s not a chaotic mess or a recipe for corruption and centralisation.

If you want to understand AI, first you need to understand what a Capitalist thinks about Workers. My presentation to Pensioners For Indy on Scotland and AI data centres. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5d...

Data Centres: Fracking All Over Again?

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Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Data Centres in Scotland - gold rush or dangerous bubble? Public opposition is rising in a way that reminds us of the #fracking debate - this week's #podcast is an excellent presentation and lively discussion on the topic with @thecommongreen.scot youtu.be/RD5diFQm9Yw?...

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Data Centres: Fracking All Over Again?

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 30/09/2026

I hadn't used my card since the start of the Covid lockdowns so I did have to take a trip to the library to reactivate it, but several months later it is still working.

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 30/09/2026

Fun fact: I have full and free access to The Economist online via my library card (along with hundreds of other newspapers and magazines). Your own library may differ but certainly if you're in South Lanarkshire you can get it too.

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 30/09/2026

AI Data Centres Why are they popping up in Scotland? Who benefits from them? What can we do about them? My discussion with @pensioners4indy.bsky.social and @scottishindypod.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5d...

Data Centres: Fracking All Over Again?

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8pm tonight. I'm back on @scottishindypod.bsky.social with a recording of my talk about AI hyperscaler data centres for Pensioners for Indy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5d...

AI Data Centres with Dr Craig Dalzell

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That'll be it. I think folk are panicking somewhat because the Covid disruptions broke the model. Smoothing things out over multiple years might make more sense.

I'm not sure what the difference is. That it'll rise by the highest of inflation or 2.5% but not more than wages? So, if inflation is running at 3% but wages only increase by 2.7%, pension rise is 2.7%?

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not entirely sure I interpreted Burnham right so forgive me if I haven't but: State pension Triple Lock to stay for this Parliament. Then, instead of "Highest of: Wage increase, inflation or 2.5%" it'll modify to "Highest of: inflation or 2.5% but that it'll hold its value compared to wages"

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Burnham announces a new Water Bill which will repeal Thatcher's ban on public ownership of water companies

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 28/09/2026

The whole AI industry is just Nvidia selling shovels then pointing a piles of dirt and shouting "Look! A mine! Start digging!"

Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 28/09/2026

Nvidia rolls out new security to prevent another AI breach of Hugging Face (which Nvidia now owns). To get it to work, AI companies, which mostly run on Nvidia chips, need to buy a new chip...from Nvidia. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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Nvidia releases AI safety software it says could have stopped Hugging Face hack

Nvidia on Monday made available a set of software safety tools for AI agents that it says would have stopped the hack of Hugging Face, the AI coding hub that Nvidia paid $13 billion for months ‌after...

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

UN Sec-Gen doesn't mince his words on Big Tech either:

"Artificial intelligence must be shaped by humanity, with humanity, and for all humanity.

And as we confront the challenges ahead, let us not retreat from two fundamental principles.

Let us say with one voice:

Children must never become the test subjects for unregulated systems.

And let us resolve that life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines.

Killer robots must have no place in our future."

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

UN Sec-Gen António Guterres' speech to the General Assembly doesn't mince his words on Big Oil www.un.org/sg/en/conten...

António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, 22nd Sept 2026 speech:

"For decades, Big Oil has treated the atmosphere as an open sewer – and cashed in on the consequences.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits.

Compare that with just 34 billion dollars in international public adaptation finance for developing countries in the latest year reported.

Meanwhile, everyday people are paying more for energy, food and insurance.

We have seen this kind of abuse of power before.

When the harms of Big Tobacco became undeniable – governments acted.

The climate crisis demands the same determination.

Those who polluted the most – and profited the most – must do far more to repair the damage they caused.

Polluters must pay. "

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 28/09/2026

And we're told we need more hyperscaler data centres so that we can do this 10x faster.

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Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our plans for October…and this Tuesday 29th Sept don’t miss our podcast with Craig Dalzell speaking about data centres. @thecommonweal.bsky.social @thecommongreen.scot @pensioners4indy.bsky.social

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 25/09/2026

2) Robin - Let's try and abolish prisons then. www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag... 3) Craig - Finally, Local Government Reform - But it must be done right! www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag... 4) Megan - What happens when a drug crisis becomes ordinary? www.commonweal.scot/articles/wha...

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 25/09/2026

This week's Common Weal Magazine. Support our crowdfunder - www.commonweal.scot/crowdfunder Graph of the Week - Since Thatcher, workers have lost enormous wealth. This week's articles: 1) Megan - Why are we cutting the study of Scotland? www.commonweal.scot/articles/why...

SINCE THATCHER, WORKERS HAVE LOST ENORMOUS WEALTH
There was a dear, marked change in how much of society's wealth different groups were getting. From 1982, workers became continual net losers while corporations became more and more dominant. The pattern is very clear and very marked, but tracking only the change masks the effect. If workers in 1985 lost wealth year after year, the assets they were able to accumulate would reduce and so less would be passed on to the next generation - and so on. It is not just the share of the economy which matters but the impact of the cumulative loss.
And it is enormous. If the average pattern from before Thatcher had been maintained, workers in Britain would have earned £23 trillion more than they did. That is £23,000,000,000,000. Had that money been invested in people and their lives over that period, it would have been transformative. There is every reason to believe that nothing explains the crisis in our democracy more than this loss. Yet it is seldom discussed in politics.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 24/09/2026

Irony - the new cycle lanes in Scotland aren’t big enough. Induced demand.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,

The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 24/09/2026

Yup. We need to do a lot more about them too. They've been catastrophic to overall housing supply and, as you say, to communities within a block who end up being hollowed out.

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Ben Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New York's DoorDash wage theft crack down is seriously impressive. Not only have they used the platform's data against them, they've punished DoorDash with a serious penalty, while creating a new worker-led compliance system for real-time accountability.

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 22/09/2026

America will do absolutely anything to avoid adopting the système international d'unités.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Boasting of an illegal war and the war crime of pillage.

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 22/09/2026

Just came out of about six hours of concentrated individual work to see this... I do have to crylaugh. Things least likely to help get you a pay rise: 1) Do your job. 2) Get better at doing your job. 3) Anything else not on the list.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Geoffrey Lean: 18 years ago, scientists drew up 9 planetary boundaries not be transgressed if the world is to remain safe and secure. Today they report we have crossed a record seven—with ocean acidification joining others like climate change and biodiversity loss. The only two boundaries to have

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Seven of nine Planetary Boundaries now at record breach levels - Oceanographic

Seven of nine Planetary Boundaries breach safe limits at record levels, a new report warns, as ocean heat and extreme weather intensify.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Spinal Tap sequel.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today, in UK Parliament, the parliamentary authorities have just emailed MPs to tell them that a whole class of documents, created by the MPs, will be permanently inaccessible to them after the end of October.

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Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‪@Common_Weal‬ are starting work on their new project “Prospectus for a New State”. This is a trailer!. We will have Craig back in the studio in October to hear more about their vision, their plans and the timeline for the Prospectus. youtube.com/shorts/uODMw...