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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“The right is winning becasue it has a vision for the future - even if that vision is more like the past.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Starmer and Macron are both determined to use 30-year-old orthodoxies to address crises that were created by those orthodoxies.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“The role of liberals has become to prevent the future altogether, to sustain the present forever.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Robin McAlpine says we are stuck with a vision of the future that is really a vision of the past because liberals only ever live in the present.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Free speech comes with duties and responsibilities, it is not a blank cheque.” Read more: www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“By insisting free speech must be absolute, Farage sets up a false choice: either say nothing at all, or say anything without consequences.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Megan Davidson says in @scotnational.bsky.social democracy doesn’t live in absolutes and the far right are painting free speech as an issue of black and white.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“You cannot blockade a people forever without also blockading the conscience of the world.” Read more: www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Israel cares desperately about appearances. It wants international audiences to nod along with its story of ‘security’.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Megan Davidson writes in @scotnational.bsky.social on the need to maintain solidarity with the people of Palestine 🍉🕊️

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“65% of young voters say they’re likely to vote when the time comes & 60% agree that voting is a duty once the right is extended. They aren’t lazy or disengaged by nature. They’re just being failed by a system that’s supposed to prepare them.” Read more: www.commonweal.scot/articles/you...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Stuck in a limbo of financial precarity, half-adult-half independent, how do you feel empowered, still living in a teenage-like bubble?”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Schools teach young people how to manage money, not how to influence the systems that shape their lives.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Megan Davidson says politics is alienating for young people, and their exploitation for rent and lack of job prospects fuels this alienation.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“A much better approach to transforming our homes for the green economy would start not with the fossil fuel companies and what they want but by coming to the other side and looking at homes first.” www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“We’d be better designing and retrofitting homes to minimise their total energy needs.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“The problem with that logic is that carbon capture and storage doesn’t work.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Dr Craig Dalzell asks why John Swinney is defending unclean blue hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Encouraging conscientiousness is not just about raising better employees, students, or citizens - it is about cultivating the conditions for trust, reliability, and collective wellbeing.” Read more: www.commonweal.scot/articles/the...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Restoring conscientiousness is not about punishment or control; it is about giving young people the skills, habits, and expectations that allow them to succeed and contribute meaningfully to society.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Megan Davidson says a society without conscientious citizens faces an erosion of social cohesion.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“The economy needs to be rebalanced towards patience and long-term security rather than grabbing a quick buck.” Read in full: www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Pensioner poverty rates have been static for the past 20 years and the rest of us face a future of having neither enough savings nor even enough capital wealth from inflated house prices to sustain ourselves.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“An average British worker now retires with something like 11 different pension pots spread over 9 different pension providers.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Dr Craig Dalzell: How the “Me First” pensions make the UK’s debt more expensive.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“There is a quiet English materialist nationalism which Starmer would do well to place emphasis on rather than overt flag-waving.” Read @scotnational article in full: www.thenational.scot/news/2551071...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“Ditching arbitrary fiscal rules for a public-led investment approach would support a renewed emphasis on colleges and apprenticeships and provide the renewal this flailing government so seeks.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“We have a huge skills shortage in filling the roles needed for a just transition of any value.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“If you were pinning your electoral hopes on winning over this ‘manosphere-adjacent’ demographic, I would start with non-university career paths.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The mentality that you must go to university or you’re deemed not valuable to society has far from breaking down class barriers, somewhat entrenched the class divide, says Rory Hamilton in @scotnational.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

“Common Weal offers a platform to bridge critique with vision, anger with action.” Read in full: www.commonweal.scot/articles/an-...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

“Social media has become a Petri dish for misinformation, outrage and oversimplification. That tension is part of the terrain my generation will have to navigate.”

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Find out more about our new Policy Communications Coordinator, Megan Davidson.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Simply banning social media isn’t enough. The report in full: www.commonweal.scot/policies/sav...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Scottish Government should create a regulator capable of continually updating policy and regulations.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Our education system isn’t fit for an era of the emotional manipulation of children online and must rebalance and focus much more on emotional development.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The best solution to the problems of technology and children is to create many more opportunities for real world socialisation.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Digital technology has reshaped how children learn, communicate, form relationships, and develop a sense of self. Yet while childhood has changed fundamentally, the systems designed to protect and support children have not kept pace.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Simply banning social media isn’t enough. This is a public health emergency and we need a holistic approach. Our report in full: www.commonweal.scot/policies/sav...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

We published a report with a comprehensive set of recommendations on how we can protect children from the harm of modern technology and restore a constructive childhood which helps them best develop as people and which is available for all Scotland’s children. www.commonweal.scot/policies/sav...

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

No policy priority up to and including economic growth can justify what has been done to our children and profitability or GDP growth can never again be pursued at the expense of the wellbeing of children.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The Scottish Government should create a regulator which can help parents to assess what is best for their children and provide clear policy and regulations to ensure social media platforms do not exploit their users.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

We need clear, unambiguous national guidance for parents and carers on issues like screen time, screens in bedrooms, appropriate ages for adoption of different technologies and so on.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We cannot pretend that we can return to a ‘before time’; digital life is inescapable and so while regulation is essential, it is nowhere near sufficient.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our education system isn’t fit for an era of the emotional manipulation of children online and must rebalance and focus much more on emotional development.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Government should take responsibility and start living up to its legal obligations under UNCRC - no long consultations, no excuses about needing more research. We need urgency.

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The Common Weal @thecommonweal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The evidence that our children are sustaining real and escalating harm from the current online environment is overwhelming and there is no further doubt about what is happening or why it is happening.

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