Dr Craig Dalȝell

Dr Craig Dalȝell

@thecommongreen.scot

Head of Policy & Research at Common Weal Wrote a book: tinyurl.com/AllofOurFutures Main social media at Mastodon: @thecommongreen@mastodon.scot Donate to CW: https://commonweal.scot/donate/ My personal blog: https://thecommongreen.scot/

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Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

This would be better than the current care allowance cliff edge, but tapering a social security payment at a rate of £1 per £1 earned is an effective 100% income tax. Benefit tapers should be no steeper than the marginal income tax rate of the highest earners. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.comCarers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budgetControversial mechanism that hit unpaid carers with huge penalties to be scrapped following Guardian investigation

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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Scottish Currency Group
@scg1.bsky.social

Richard Murphy in the National on our detailed report "But most importantly from my perspective, it also looks at the issues people will worry about, including the protection of their pensions, their mortgages and the value of a Scottish currency" www.thenational.scot/politics/266...

thenational.scotScottish independence could transform mortgages and pensions in ScotlandTWO incredibly valuable presentations took place during the Scottish Currency Group conference in Dunfermline on Saturday.

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The Associated Press
@apnews.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.lySerbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shiftThe long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

I'm at my most future-optimist when it comes to medical advances. I know people who were told in the 90s they'd be dead in a decade and who are still around today. I, myself, would not have survived being born a decade before I was.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

The unspoken caveat to all of the checklist items is "assuming you are rich enough to be able to afford it". Community preparedness is far stronger, far more resilient and far fairer than telling everyone that they're on their own.

Sky News@news.sky.com

Government launches new push to prepare UK for emergencies and hostile acts

news.sky.comGovernment launches new push to prepare UK for emergencies and hostile actsThe government will on Thursday launch a new push to prepare the UK to be more resilient for any kind of emergency, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has revealed.

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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comEvery Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advisesBe Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state
Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

The unspoken caveat to all of the checklist items is "assuming you are rich enough to be able to afford it". Community preparedness is far stronger, far more resilient and far fairer than telling everyone that they're on their own.

Sky News@news.sky.com

Government launches new push to prepare UK for emergencies and hostile acts

news.sky.comGovernment launches new push to prepare UK for emergencies and hostile actsThe government will on Thursday launch a new push to prepare the UK to be more resilient for any kind of emergency, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has revealed.
Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

Every politician who signed, clapped and cheered and then who failed to implement or actively resisted the measures required to meet this target should consider how they'd defend themselves against a future charge of ecocide.

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org

A major United Nations climate report says, for the first time, that the world has lost its chance to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That was a key goal of the 2015 Paris climate accord aimed at limiting the worst effects of the climate crisis.

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The Associated Press
@apnews.com

The International Criminal Court and officials working at the tribunal have won the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, an official said.

bit.lyEuropean Union awards top rights prize to International Criminal Court days after Trump sanctionsBRUSSELS (AP) — The International Criminal Court and officials working at the tribunal have won the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, an official said Thursday. The award came just days after the Trump administration announced sweeping new sanctions on the ICC as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel. “The European Union is built on respect for multilateralism and international institutions, and this prize recognizes the important work of the court in upholding international law and justice,” European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said at the parliament in Strasbourg, France, after a standing ovation. The annual EU award, named after Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, was created in 1988 to honor individuals or groups who defend human rights and basic freedoms.

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ECIU
@eciu.net

Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills, new analysis from @nesta_uk in @CarbonBrief Contradicts idea, which has become embedded in UK media and political narratives, that UK’s net zero target is to blame for high energy bills www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-ex...

Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

The cost of carbon pollution is about $2,000 per tonne or $860 per barrel. Far higher than the sale price of the barrel. This means that a company or government not paying to avoid, mitigate or repair that damage is dumping the cost onto someone else. i.e. all of us. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comQuantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon - NatureA new framework links specific emissions to monetized, location-specific climate damages, showing that future harms from past CO2 emissions far exceed historical damages and that delayed carbon remova...
Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

I take it that this sets the low bar for passing their "climate compatibility test" then.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social

The decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field will help bring 'stability and certainty' in the country’s energy sector after 'many years of difficulty' the Scottish Government has said Full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

Our paper on the impact of the pandemic on Scottish care homes was published in May 2020 and highlighted unheeded warnings that this might happen that went back to at least 2016. www.commonweal.scot/policies/the...

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Another failure in the Conservative government’s Covid response.

theguardian.comUK government failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes, inquiry findsInquiry chair says failure to isolate people discharged from hospital into care was ‘significant oversight’
Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

It is particularly good to read for folk who are outwith (or not sufficiently within) the political party bubble and applies to all parties (I encountered it within the Greens too back when I was a member).

Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

Campaigners have to work out where the pressure points are to get policies to jump the gaps and then how to apply that pressure. Otherwise even policies that have overwhelming or even unanimous support at conference and are perfectly within the power of the government to do can still be ignored.

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Ballot Box Scotland
@ballotbox.scot

Amanda Bland (MSP for Central Scotland and Lothians West) has become the first MSP to quit Reform, for reasons as yet unknown. Telt ye's the numbers would be down before Christmas! (I am back from holiday now but catchup on by-elections in that period will come after I'm rested up)

Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

After the elections in May there was a pool going on how long it would take for resignations or expulsions to result in Reform losing their status as joint 2nd largest party in Holyrood with Labour. I reckoned "before Christmas" but did anyone have "Oct 19th"? www.thenational.scot/news/2664870...

thenational.scotReform MSP quits party in major blow to Malcolm OffordA REFORM UK MSP has quit the party and will sit as an independent, in a major blow to leader Malcolm Offord.

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Laura Webster
@lauraewebster.bsky.social

Find it just so typical that rather than Scotland's media explore what public ownership of busses means to the public, or how it works outside of Scotland - or even how it works in our own capital city - the amplified central voices are reactionary businessmen.

Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

CW Magazine Repost Eighteen months after Common Weal discovered that John Swinney’s claim that the Scottish Child Payment would discourage parents from working, new research shows that the opposite is true.

thecommongreen.scotScottish Child Payment policy must always follow the evidenceEighteen months after Common Weal discovered that John Swinney’s claim that the Scottish Child Payment would discourage parents from working, new research shows that the opposite is true.
Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

Swinney has announced that he's going to bring all buses in Scotland into public ownership. He's going to do it "through franchising and regulation", so he'll be following the model called for in the joint paper by Common Weal, Get Glasgow Moving and Living Rent www.commonweal.scot/policies/str...

commonweal.scotStrathclyde Needs Better Buses — Common WealA proposal to establish a reliable, affordable, democratically accountable public bus service in Glasgow and throughout Strathclyde.

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Yes, the Internal Combustion Engine is dead. It is being replaced with EVs around the world, except for the US, which is become an automotive technology backwater—thanks largely to Trump

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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social

That should certainly be the trigger for all governments in Europe to eliminate their dependence on MS, and, indeed, ALL US tech companies, because Apple and Google have bent the knee in other ways.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

And here's the kicker: Microsoft has terminated the M365 and Outlook access of international public officials whose official acts made Trump angry.

Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

A good way to discover where you are on the Left-Right political spectrum is, when presented with scenarios like this, to ask: "Which should take precedence - human rights or property rights?"

PhillyVoice.com@phillyvoice.com

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months in protest. This week, she was arrested for disorderly conduct

bit.lyA retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for itCarolyn Marvin, 78, said she is exercising her First Amendment right to protest — and will do it again.

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Conor Matchett
@conormatchett.bsky.social

SNP conference has just passed a motion calling on all quangos, nationalised organisations (e.g. Prestwick, ScotRail), the Scottish Government, and the Scottish Parliament to quit X

Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

If, as the regulator argues, the oil regulator cannot "materially impact" the value of oil companies operating in the UK, I'd humbly suggest that that means that the regulator is not fit for purpose. www.theferret.scot/oil-watchdog...

theferret.scotOil watchdog faces 'conflict of interests' row over directors’ Shell and BP sharesBoard members at the North Sea oil regulator hold Shell and BP shares. Critics say the investments raise questions about the body's independence.
Dr Craig Dalȝell
@thecommongreen.scot

Remember, there are no "rogue" AIs, merely improperly coded and regulated AIs. As such, the owners of AI should be liable for their actions as if said owners acted personally and directly. www.bbc.com/news/article... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

bbc.comRogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder casePhiladelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.