by Robin McAlpine | 17 Nov 2023 | Opinion
Last weekend the Scottish Government announced that it had cut a ‘deal’ in which a Norwegian state-owned company would turn the electricity generation we gave them the rights to for virtually nothing into hydrogen which it will export directly to Germany... by Robin McAlpine | 15 Nov 2023 | Opinion
If I was a poet I’d pen some verse. If I was a boxer I’d punch a wall. But I’m me, so I’ll rage at society and its ills. Because today they buried my friend. He was one of my closest friends, someone I’ve grown up with one way or another... by Robin McAlpine | 12 Nov 2023 | Analysis
Dear god, here we go again. When Common Weal looked at a hydrogen strategy the second worst possible scenario that we could devise was for the generation of the hydrogen to be privately-owned by an overseas company selling via pipeline to a continental market. Let me... by Robin McAlpine | 10 Nov 2023 | Opinion
First published by Common Weal Are you sleeping well? Because I know a lot of people aren’t. I’m one of them, and when I’ve shared that with other activists a worrying number have said ‘no, me neither’. I get emails about despair. It is... by Robin McAlpine | 8 Nov 2023 | Opinion
Yesterday I was in Birmingham speaking at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Economic Development. I was talking about the kinds of economic shifts we need to make in a changing world and as part of that I discussed decentralisation and the need to remove the...
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