The Common Weal Policy Podcast

Episode 184 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Laura Young about her campaign to ban disposable vapes in Scotland and in the UK. They discuss why these devices exist, how they are marketed and what impact their improper disposal is having. They also discuss the possible role of the Circular Economy Bill in not just ensuring devices like these are recycled effectively but possibly how to avoid them reaching the market in the first place. The website for the campaign to ban disposable vapes is here: https://www.lesswastelaura.com Craig's article on "single-use policies" is here: https://commonweal.scot/single-use-policy/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 183 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig plays with the format of the podcast slightly. Instead of just one guest, he's spoken to several members of the Common Weal team about last week's Programme for Government and what they would have added to it if they had written it themselves. You can read Craig's detailed analysis of the PfG here: https://commonweal.scot/programme-for-government-2023-24/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 182 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Mercedes Villalba MSP about her Members' Bill to apply a public interest test to anyone who owns or seeks to own more than 500 hectares of land in Scotland. They discuss the problems with Scotland's concentrated land ownership, how the public interest test would work and why it is important to address existing owners as well as whenever land is transfered between owners. You can read and respond to the Consultation here: https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/proposals-for-bills/proposed-land-ownership-and-public-interest-scotland-bill You can read Common Weal's response to the Scottish Government's land reform bill here: https://commonweal.scot/policies/land-reform-in-a-net-zero-nation/ You can write to your MSP to ask them to support the Members Bill or tell them you want to see more action on land reform using Write To Them: https://www.writetothem.com/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 181 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Barry Fisher from Keep Scotland Beautiful about their campaign to end litter in Scotland with a major part of that campaign now looking at Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) or the concept that the producers of devices and packaging that create waste should be responsible for that waste and that products should be designed to minimise or eliminate that waste so that litter is not produced in the first place. Visit Keep Scotland Beautiful at: https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org You can read their recent article on Scotland's litter emergency in The Herald here: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23748724.scotland-litter-volunteer-armies-litter-pickers-demand/ You can listen to our podcast about an app to record and track litter in your area here: https://commonweal.scot/podcast/the-common-weal-policy-podcast-episode-128/ You can read our Common Home Plan and its chapter on EPR as part of the Circular Economy here: https://commonweal.scot/shop/downloads/e-book-the-common-home-plan/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 180 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Colin Turbett, former social worker and member of Common Weal's Care Reform Group, about the history of social work in Scotland and what lessons we can learn from the fragmentation and privatisation of social work as we consider the upcoming National Care Service. You can read Colin's paper here: https://commonweal.scot/policies/from-welfare-to-charity/ You can read his article in Third Force News here: https://tfn.scot/magazine/july-2023/read And the recent reply to his article here: https://tfn.scot/magazine/august-2023/read Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 179 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Ben Wray from the Gig Economy Project, a pan-European project to map and track insecure labour, about a recent article he wrote about Karl Marx and his views towards the gig economy - known in his time as "piece wages". They discuss the rise and resurgence of this form of insecure labour, how it undermines salaried work and how it negatively impacts and disempowers workers. They also discuss the UK's inflation crisis and how Spain has managed to avoid it and, finally, a brief discussion on Scotland's latest GERS statistics. You can read Ben's article on Marx and the Gig Economy here: https://twitter.com/project_gig/status/1690638011724132353 And you can sign up to the Gig Economy Project newsletter here: https://braveneweurope.com/gig-economy-project The article Ben mentions about inflation in the USA can be read here: https://braveneweurope.com/james-k-galbraith-why-the-economic-doomsayers-were-wrong Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 178 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Common Weal's own Rory Hamilton about his research into land reform and community buyouts in the South of Scotland. His collating of oral history of land reform in several village communities shows the difference in attitudes towards land and ownership and how they differ from areas such as the Highlands. They also discuss how current and proposed legislation could have impacted land reform attempts in the Borders and the South and what else the Scottish Government could do to accelerate the pace of change. Rory's article on community and Common Ridings can be read here: https://commonweal.scot/its-ay-bin/ Our policy paper on Development Councils and local democracy can be read here: https://commonweal.scot/policies/development-councils-a-proposal-for-a-new-system-of-local-democracy-in-scotland/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Image Credit Victuallers - Wikimedia Commons Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 177 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Ellen Joëlle Dalzell, activist and director of community design & campaign agency Artivism Scotland, about the Scottish Government's Independence White Paper on citizenship. They discuss the positives around Scotland's inclusive approach to migration and the fact that non-citizen residents enjoy many more of the same rights and responsibilities as citizens do compared to other countries but also the negatives such as the proposal to maintain the EU Settled Status scheme post-independence despite the Scottish Government objections to it at the time of launch. For more on Ellen's work on migrant and EU citizen rights, listen to her discussing the implications of Settled Status on the Policy Podcast here: https://commonweal.scot/podcast/the-common-weal-policy-podcast-episode-27/ More information on the EU digital ID scheme can be read here: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/european-digital-identity_en And the Scottish digital citizenship scheme can be found here: https://blogs.gov.scot/digital/2023/06/23/scotaccount-pilot-with-disclosure-scotland/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 176 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Calum Hodgson from Green New Deal Rising about the current state of the climate emergency, what are the barriers to the solutions are are available but not being implemented fast enough and what should the Scottish and UK Governments do to get back on track towards meeting their climate targets. You can learn more about GND Rising at their website here: https://www.gndrising.org Common Weal's policy paper on building GND-grade social housing is here: https://commonweal.scot/policies/good-houses-for-all/ And Common Weal's GND blueprint, our Common Home Plan can be read here and purchased here: https://commonweal.scot/shop/publications/the-common-home-plan/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 175 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Graham Smith, CEO of pro-democracy campaign group Republic about their campaign to end the British monarchy and replace the head of state with an elected President. They discuss the reasons why we need an elected head of state, how Republic have been campaigning for this via their high profile protests around events such as the coronation and their reaction to the British state's attempts to shut down their protests via arrests and draconian legislation. You can learn more about Republic at their website here: https://www.republic.org.uk Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 174 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Prof. Richard Murphy of Funding the Future about the UK's inflation crisis, how the Bank of England has misdiagnosed the problem, how the IMF has correctly identified the cause but thinks we should keep doing the wrong thing anyway and what the UK could be doing to bring down inflation, raise wages and reduce profiteering in our economy. You can read the IMF's report here: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/06/23/Euro-Area-Inflation-after-the-Pandemic-and-Energy-Shock-Import-Prices-Profits-and-Wages-534837?cid=bl-com-WPIEA2023131 And Craig's article on Technocracy vs Democracy can be read here: https://commonweal.scot/technocracy-vs-democracy/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 173 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Alastair McIntosh, ecologist, activist, and author of a new paper on community rights in the face of carbon capture and capital, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Carbon. They discuss the rise of the Green Lairds, the lack of community agency embedded in current land reform strategy and how there are some early signs of better approaches towards land reform starting to emerge. Alastair's paper can be read here: https://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/the-cheviot-the-stag-and-the-black-black-carbon/ The Common Weal Common Home Plan can be found here: https://commonweal.scot/shop/downloads/e-book-the-common-home-plan/ And the Scottish Land Commission's paper on natural capital can be found here: https://www.landcommission.gov.scot/our-work/ownership/natural-capital Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 172 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Kaitlin Dryburgh, Common Weal's Policy Communications Officer, about her new project for Common Weal. Common Weal Recreates is a monthly newsletter looking at sport, art and culture in Scotland with a specific focus on helping you find interesting things to do around Scotland. They also discuss our book Sorted and what it says about reshaping Scotland to give us more time to do the things that make life worth living. You can sign up to the Recreates newsletter here. You can sign up to the weekly newsletter here: https://commonweal.scot/get-involved/cw-mailing-list/ And you can buy a copy of Sorted here: https://commonweal.scot/shop/publications/sorted-a-handbook-for-a-better-scotland/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 171 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Tom Nockolds, member of Common Weal's Energy Working Group and co-founder of Loco Home, a community-led, not-for-profit, retrofitting strategy company who work with communities and suppliers to help advise and design home retrofit plans. They discuss the scale of the retrofitting challenge and why community-level actions will deliver better and faster results than simply mandating that individuals must retrofit their homes on their own. More details about Loco Homes can be found on their website here: https://locohome.coop And their Twitter page can be found here: https://twitter.com/loco_retrofit Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 170 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Prof. Aileen McHarg about the increasing complexities forming at the edges of devolution in the UK, the tensions that are forming as the Scottish and UK Governments cross the lines of their remits and whether or not both governments are treating these limits as a battleground for constitutional skirmishes. Prof McHarg's paper can be read here: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/contested-boundaries-of-devolved-legislative-competence/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 169 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig presents another collection of recent public talks from Common Weal and at some of our events. First up, Colin Turbett talks about the history and principles of care in Scotland and how this should inform the development of the National Care Service. Next, Peter Krykant recently spoke at our monthly activists' meeting where he and others discussed the policy landscape around drugs and the criminal justice system in Scotland. And finally, Craig spoke to Global Justice Now about the plan in Scotland to create two Freeports, how they will operate, what impact they'll have on the Scottish economy and why the Scottish Government is supporting them. Colin's paper on the history of social work can be read here: https://commonweal.scot/policies/from-welfare-to-charity/ You can watch the other talks at our event about drugs policy on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Common_Weal Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 168 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Keith Baker, Abi Truebig and Alison Anderson from green skills and retraining consultancy Pattiesmuir, they discuss how the coming Green transition presents opportunities for Scotland to create green jobs but that there's still a gap in Scottish politics on how to train and retrain people to fill those jobs. They also discuss their plans to host a conference later this year called Engineering Change to develop their ideas with the sectors most closely linked to the Just Transition. You can read Common Weal's Green New Deal plan here: https://commonweal.scot/shop/downloads/e-book-the-common-home-plan/ And you can read Craig's analysis of Scotland's Just Transition plans here: https://commonweal.scot/without-workers-the-transition-wont-be-just/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 167 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week Craig talks to Alastair Tibbit from Open Democracy about their latest report into the funding of think tanks across the UK and in the devolved nations. They discuss why it is important that think tanks declare the sources of their funding and why the public should be wary of those who do not. Common Weal is also proud to announce that we were awarded an A rating in their report, the highest possible rating. You can see Common Weal's governance structure and our financial report here - https://commonweal.scot/governance/ You can read the Who Funds You report here - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/who-funds-you/ Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

Episode 166 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Rowan Lear, curator at Glasgow Seed Library. They discuss what a seed library is, how they help preserve not just the seeds that form our collective heritage but also the skills and culture required to grow them. They also talk about some of the different plants that the library has in its collection and how you can help their mission by borrowing seeds, growing them and returning seeds to the library after you've harvested them. You can find out more about Glasgow Seed Library at the CCA and on their website here: https://www.cca-glasgow.com/whats-on/collection/glasgow-seed-library One of the inspirational stories of seed preservation by the Svalbard Seed Vault was turned into a documentary called Wild Relatives which you can find out more about here: https://www.jumanamanna.com/Wild-Relatives Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Image Credit: Craig Dalzell, created using Stable Diffusion Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show

You can download the episode directly here. This week Rory is filling in for Craig, who is in Dundee for the Scottish Trades Union Congress Annual Conference. Rory is joined by Savan Qadir, from Refugees for Justice and the University of Glasgow, to talk about the current UK immigration system, the impact it has on refugees and asylum seekers, as well as the host communities they integrate with, and how Scotland could lead the way with a more caring and compassionate approach to immigration. The podcast previewing STUC Conference (and Craig’s absence) can be listened to here: https://commonweal.scot/podcast/the-common-weal-policy-podcast-episode-164 You can follow the Refugees for Justice on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/refugee4justice And find out more about their work here: https://www.refugeesforjustice.com/ Common Weal’s work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal’s policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss Theme Excerpts from “Hiding Your Reality” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the show