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This is how we can regulate data centres in Scotland (opens the original)
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Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Craig Dalzell, head of policy and research at Common Weal. There’s an increasingly loud uprising happening in Scotland around AI data centres. Possibly the biggest I’ve seen since the 2016 uproar over shale gas fracking. Data centre companies are actively lobbying the Scottish Government as we speak and are basically asking for John Swinney to open the gates to them to flood Scotland with as many data centres as he’s willin
Scottish politics has a dullness problem. Here's what we need to do about that (opens the original)
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Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Megan Davidson, policy and communications officer at Common Weal There is something slightly strange about the end of this summer. The Scottish Parliament will return from recess on August 31. MSPs will be back in Holyrood, committees will reconvene and the machinery of Scottish politics will begin turning again. And yet, after a fairly mundane end to the last parliamentary term and an unusually quiet summer, it is difficul
What happened when I tried to ride every bus in Glasgow in one day (opens the original)
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Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Adham Fisher (below), a campaigner who travels to towns and cities to see how easy it is to travel all bus routes there. This week, he was in Glasgow THE scaled-back 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have just taken place. The marathon was one dropped event. I proposed a replacement “bus marathon” to a few sustainability organisations, as it might be a good publicity opportunity for them. At 12.30pm on Thursday, July 30,
A warning shot has been fired on council tax. The SNP must now act (opens the original)
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Hello! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Craig Dalzell, head of policy and research at Common Weal The Scottish Government just saw a warning shot fired that almost resulted in them being outflanked on progressive tax reform by the UK Government. That the shot wasn’t aimed over their own heads and that it missed its intended target should not detract from the warning it sent. With the King in the North (by which we, of course, mean half-way up England rather than the Nor
Universities just joined a 'defence alliance'. Here's everything wrong with it (opens the original)
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Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Rory Hamilton, communications co-ordinator at Common Weal Last week, it was announced that 35 universities across the UK, including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde universities in Scotland, had founded the "Defence Universities Alliance" (DUA) as part of an £182 million investment by the UK Government in defence research, skills and careers. In the context of a higher education funding crisis, it might be appealing to se
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