Hi and welcome to RobinMcAlpine.org. This is my attempt to do what I can to contribute more to Scotland by creating a place where you can get solid news and policy analysis, opinions on current affairs, new ideas to think about and resources to help explain important things that are happening. But it really isn't about me. My work in Common Weal means I get great access to a lot of information, knowledge and expertise – but I can't even begin to cover the entire gap in the scrutiny of Scotland's policy and democracy. That's why I want to start by asking for your help. If you have policy expertise or direct experience of public life in Scotland and think that people would benefit from you explaining what you know or revealing what you've seen and are willing to write about it, please get in touch. Or perhaps you're struggling to get a community initiative off the ground in the face of...
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Left-smearing is back in fashion
With utter predictability, a crisis in capitalism comes along, people start looking to solutions from the left, so the establishment starts propagating conspiracy theories…
It’s a truly rotten thing if you can’t fix it
When I tried to set out a range of actions we could take in Scotland to tackle the cost of living crisis it ended up feeling like fiction. Why?
The indy movement simply has to be better than this
The grassroots of the independence movement have every right in the world to be angry and frustrated, but those emotions must be used wisely if we are to win.
Keir Starmer; failing Britain in human form
Keir Starmer is not the solution to Britain’s relentless decline, he is a personification of why Britain is in decline in the first place.
We must turn fury and despair into hope and determination
Everyone’s angry about the state of things, but if anger doesn’t become something else, nothing changes and the people you are angry with get away with it.
Elite misrules opens the door to independence, but…
The population is becoming more anti-establishment by the day. The independence movement must catch up with them or be left behind.
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Hi and welcome to RobinMcAlpine.org. This is my attempt to do what I can to contribute more to Scotland by creating a place where you can get solid news and policy analysis, opinions on current affairs, new ideas to think about and resources to help explain important...
Latest
Left-smearing is back in fashion
With utter predictability, a crisis in capitalism comes along, people start looking to solutions from the left, so the establishment starts propagating conspiracy theories…
It’s a truly rotten thing if you can’t fix it
When I tried to set out a range of actions we could take in Scotland to tackle the cost of living crisis it ended up feeling like fiction. Why?
The indy movement simply has to be better than this
The grassroots of the independence movement have every right in the world to be angry and frustrated, but those emotions must be used wisely if we are to win.
Keir Starmer; failing Britain in human form
Keir Starmer is not the solution to Britain’s relentless decline, he is a personification of why Britain is in decline in the first place.
We must turn fury and despair into hope and determination
Everyone’s angry about the state of things, but if anger doesn’t become something else, nothing changes and the people you are angry with get away with it.
Elite misrules opens the door to independence, but…
The population is becoming more anti-establishment by the day. The independence movement must catch up with them or be left behind.
Opinion
Left-smearing is back in fashion
With utter predictability, a crisis in capitalism comes along, people start looking to solutions from the left, so the establishment starts propagating conspiracy theories…
It’s a truly rotten thing if you can’t fix it
When I tried to set out a range of actions we could take in Scotland to tackle the cost of living crisis it ended up feeling like fiction. Why?
The indy movement simply has to be better than this
The grassroots of the independence movement have every right in the world to be angry and frustrated, but those emotions must be used wisely if we are to win.
Opinion
Left-smearing is back in fashion
With utter predictability, a crisis in capitalism comes along, people start looking to solutions from the left, so the establishment starts propagating conspiracy theories…
It’s a truly rotten thing if you can’t fix it
When I tried to set out a range of actions we could take in Scotland to tackle the cost of living crisis it ended up feeling like fiction. Why?
The indy movement simply has to be better than this
The grassroots of the independence movement have every right in the world to be angry and frustrated, but those emotions must be used wisely if we are to win.
Analysis
What is a plebiscite election?
Since an intention to hold a ‘plebiscite election’ was announced, there has been a lot of confusion about what that means. What is it and how is it different from a normal election?
Who signed up to the squeeze?
The recent brutal Scottish Government budget is a direct result of a trap set by Westminster six years ago – a trap the Scottish Government walked into very willingly
Electricity – what will Scotland do with it all?
Decarbonising Scotland’s electricity is easy. The big question is, since we’ve got so much more of it that we actually need, what are we going to do with it all?
AudioVisual
Coming soon…
Ideas
Start a National Leasing Service
How to have everything you ever wanted, pay less and save the world…
Create ‘public journalism’
Scotland’s media is under-resourced so can’t scrutinise properly – a publicly owned news agency would set journalism free
Set up Policy Academies
Big, open, transparent, public centres of thinking to develop the best possible public policy in Scotland, Policy Academies could transform government
Elsewhere
Biden’s foreign policy is a complete mess
David Pratt concisely and clearly explains how Joe Biden is making an absolute mess of the US’s foreign policy stance
Why Scotland never creates it’s supply chain
Really clear explanation by Dick Winchester of why Scotland is going to lose out AGAIN from the opportunity to develop a renewable energy supply chain
Scotland’s real government…
An excellent piece from Nick Kempe on the insidious role of KPMG (and the other Big Accountancy firms) in the government of Scotland