Scottish think tank founded in memory of trade unionist Jimmy Reid, to continue his legacy of radical political thinking and action. His words still echo.
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Tickets are now available for the 2026 Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture, at Glasgow City Chambers on Tuesday 20 October 2026 starting at 7pm. Tickets can be purchased here:
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Amazon uses AI surveillance to monitor union risk in UK warehouses.
Internal documents suggest tech giant collects ‘hundreds of data points’ for ‘union-busting’ AI model.
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The real and overwhelmingly disproportionate violence is the violence that cannibalistic capitalism uses to extract profit from the labour, bodies and health of people.
The real and overwhelmingly disproportionate vandalism is the vandalism that austerity policies have wrought on the lives and the communities that it siphoned money from to the benefit of the super-rich.
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Come join us tomorrow and hear Jackie Kay read from her works and talk about her memories of Jimmy Reid
Just a few days to go before our 2026 memorial lecture, with the inspiring Jackie Kay. Tickets are available here. zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/ji…
Reliance on supply chains linked to serious labour exploitation and environmental harm costs £4.4 bn annually — 10 times more than preventing it, research by the Fabian Society found.
Ministers urged to introduce new laws to crackdown on the human costs.
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Online safety has focussed on regulating content that Big Tech companies allow on their platforms. But when it comes to regulation around content or accounts that are removed, or quietly demoted on social media, there is little regulation on offer.
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Scottish aid to Ukraine. Working alongside charities and other organisations in Scotland they've delivered over 4,000 baby boxes to 40 maternity hospitals as well as clothes, food, mobility beds, medicines and more. heraldscotland.com/life_styl…
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Yesterday, Israel’s official X account published a lengthy statement trying to cast doubt on the irrefutable evidence that Israeli assailants brutally beat an American journalist. Less than 24 hours later, it had to do the same thing again, this time over the brutal assault on European diplomats.
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While public ownership on the Lothian model would be better, bus regulation is progress and probably the only affordable way of putting the public back into public transport. As we highlighted in this briefing. reidfoundation.scot/2023/11/… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2…
Just a few days to go before our 2026 memorial lecture, with the inspiring Jackie Kay. Tickets are available here. zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/ji…
Thanks to advances in renewable energy technology, such as solar panels, Britain’s homes are increasingly decentralising the energy system, and becoming less reliant on oil and gas price fluctuations. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
While public ownership on the Lothian model would be better, bus regulation is progress and probably the only affordable way of putting the public back into public transport. As we highlighted in this briefing. reidfoundation.scot/2023/11/… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2…
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Call for wind farm communities to retain £78m a year from business rates. It would be complex to do this for specific industries, but business rates used to be a local tax, and should be again.
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I spoke at this meeting and this report is somewhat selective. Yes, councillors were critical about the process and timetable, but the meeting was much more positive about devolving power to communities. scotsman.com/news/politics/s…
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The Guardian view on the banks: too big to fail cannot mean too big to tax.
Financiers owe their windfalls and bonuses to higher interest rates. Britain should reclaim more for the public and resist City lobbying. 👏👏👏
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Deputy General Secretary @DaveSTUC speaking at the @FutureEconScot Fringe event at #SNP26.
As we transition to Net-Zero, the priorities of communities and workers must be front and centre. We cannot allow Scotland's renewables sector to be a playground for the rich.
The European Charter of Local Self-Government, which is being incorporated into Scots Law does require consultation with citizens before boundaries are changed. Citizen assemblies are one way of doing this, which enables complex issues to be addressed.
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Scotland’s women’s health champion has pushed back against an SNP plan to offer incentives to doctors to increase Scotland’s gynaecology workforce, warning that services need to be redesigned rather than simply given more money.
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Scotland is too centralised, but the PM is largely talking about devolution to regions. Local government reform in England is a mess, with little movement towards devolution of power to recognised communities. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…
There was certainly criticism of the process and timetable at the meeting. But not around the need for local government reform and decentralisation of power to communities of place.
SNP councillors revolt over local government reform plans
One of the most interesting fringe events I've attended in recent years - quite rare to see this kind of open criticism of the government:
scotsman.com/news/politics/s…