Common Weal

Tackling climate change is largely about reducing CO2 emissions and a significant target is decarbonising electricity. Scottish electricity is largely produced carbon free and some of the surplus is exported to England. Often too much electricity is generated than required or the cables can take, so an increasingly large portion is curtailed, or paid to be switched off.

This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Kaitlyn Dryburgh.

WE have the power to change it in Scotland and doing so isn't particularly complicated (depending on the replacement)...

It was my first time voting. My first opportunity to have my say on the direction of the country. The referendum made me sit up and take note of our politics with more urgency than before because like many 16-year-olds, this time I was participating.

 The think tank says it cannot support the bill in its current form.

On October 5 we will welcome campaigners from 14 different parts of Europe who, like us, are working for their independence or greater self-government.

The Care Reform Group of Common Weal has long argued that if social care services are to be reconfigured through the creation of a National Care Service in Scotland, they have to be localised (see Caring for All).

SOMETHING I never thought would happen, not in a month of Sundays; I’m going to agree and perhaps even sympathise with Dominic Cummings. It truly is a shock to me as well.

THE Fringe is here, and the capital is bouncing once again.