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Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes
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Books 1 and 2. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. The book concerns the structure of society (as represented figuratively by the frontispiece, showing the state giant made up of individuals). In the book, Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by a sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war – situations identified with a state of nature and the famou ...
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Episode #214 - General Election 2024
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Episode 214 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, and for the final time for the podcast in this format, Craig talks to Robin McAlpine about the General Election results. How did Labour win such a massive landslide despite losing voterse, what happened to collapse the Conservatives, why didn't smal…
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Episode 213 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Nadia Shaikh from the Right to Roam campaign, who are seeking the same right to access land in England as we in Scotland have enjoyed by statute for over two decades and by custom for many years longer than that. They discuss how 92% …
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Episode 212 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, in lieu of a guest, Craig gives a presentation based on one of his public talks. He details what a Circular Economy actually means in contrast to the much more limited definition being used by the Scottish Government. Rather than merely "increasing …
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Episode 211 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig is on holiday, so it’s Rory filling in. On today’s episode, Rory speaks to Dr Franziska Paul, Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Glasgow about a project she is currently working on alongside Professor Thomas Marois of McMaster …
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Episode 210 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Frances Guy, Chief Executive of SIDA, Common Weal Board Member and the Former UK Ambassador to Yemen. They discuss SIDA's new report looking at ways that Scotland and the UK can "shift the power" away from the Global North who have ca…
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Episode #209 - Profit and Politics
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Episode 209 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Rory Hamilton about two major stories in Scottish politics this week. This first is the publication of our policy paper Profit Extraction which looks at the high levels of foreign ownership in the Scottish economy and how that leads t…
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Episode 208 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Igor Zulaika, one of the newly elected parliamentarians in the Basque Country's recent parliamentary elections which saw his party, the left-wing pro-independence EH Bildu, gain its highest ever vote share, just one seat shy of being …
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Episode 207 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Eilidh Keay from Living Rent about the state of the private rented sector in Scotland, what this means for tenants - especially when their rent is too high and/or their home is poorly maintained by their landlord and what the Scottish…
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Episode 206 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig is in the hotseat for a change as Rory Hamilton interviews him about his latest policy paper for Common Weal Taxing Land in Scotland. They discuss how to reform Council Tax into a Property Tax that matches the actual value of homes and then ho…
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Episode 205 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Prof Richard Murphy about his new report Taxing Wealth 2024. The report examines the causes of the UK's wealth inequality and looks at the policies that could be implemented to mitigate against it, including reforms to National Insura…
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Episode #204 - Who Still Owns Scotland?
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Episode 204 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Andy Wightman, possibly Scotland's foremost expert on land reform, about the Scottish Government's new Land Reform Bill and his updated analysis of his Who Owns Scotland? report which shows that in the past decade or so, Scotland's al…
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Episode #203 - Powering Communities
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Episode 203 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Kristopher Leask from Community Energy Scotland and Josh Doble from Community Land Scotland about their new call to action paper A Fair Energy Deal for Communities. They discuss the state of community owned energy in Scotland, what th…
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Episode 202 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Ben Wray from the Gig Economy Project who report on issues affecting gig workers and platform work around Europe and internationally. They discuss the new Platform Work Directive which will regulate and improve workers' rights within …
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Episode 201 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Simon Jones, a long time Common Weal supporter and activist, about a newly proposed £20 million regeneration scheme in his home town of Dumfries. They discuss the importance of Scotland's towns to our communities, the importance of lo…
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Episode #200 - Redefining Economics
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Episode 200 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to William Thomson from Scotonomics about their upcoming event The Festival of Economics which seeks to debunk and demystify economics and to explore innovations and new theories in economics as well as to explore the topics and policies…
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Episode 199 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Nick Kempe, Convenor of the Common Weal Care Reform Group, about the return of the National Care Service Bill to the Scottish Parliament within the next couple of weeks. They discuss why Common Weal campaigned for a pause to the Bill …
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Episode 198 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week Craig talks to Heather from the direct action group This Is Rigged about their upcoming March for Scran - a protest on February 18th 2024 starting at 11am from Garnethill Park in Glasgow. They discuss the reasons for food insecurity in Scotland, the …
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Episode #197 - Confronting Consultations
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Episode 197 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Common Weal's own Nicola Biggerstaff about the various public consultations that we're currently taking part in such as the proposal for an Ecocide Bill, the UK Parliament's consultation on the sustainability of the UK's debt, work on…
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Episode #196 - Failure to Prevent
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Episode 196 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week, Craig talks to Prof Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow and UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, about the devastation of Gaza, the recent ruling by the ICJ that…
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Episode #195 - The State of Happiness
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Episode 195 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. Welcome to Season 6 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast. This year's theme is "Activate" so if you have a story to tell about an interesting thing happening in your community or if you're involved in a campaign to change things for the better, then please get in…
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03 – Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations
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06 – Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They are Expressed
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07 – Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse
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08 – Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and their Contrary Defects
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09 – Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge
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10 – Of Power,Worth,Dignity, Honour and Worthiness
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13 – Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
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14 – Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts
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16 – Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated
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17 – Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
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18 – Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution
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19 – Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Sovereign Power
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Episode 194 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here. This week Craig talks to Common Weal Director Amanda Burgauer in the final Policy Podcast of the year. They take you through some of the highlights from Common Weal in 2023 such as our policy work in ScotWind, the National Care Service and in independence stra…
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20 – Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical
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22 – Of Systems Subject, Political and Private
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23 – Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power
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24 – Of the Nutrition and Procreation of a Commonwealth
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27 – Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
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