Dave Watson
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

UK Strategic Defence Review in a changing world

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  The much-trailed UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was  published  yesterday. It was timely for me as I was participating in a European se...
Thursday, 8 May 2025

Political change has to be more than a slogan

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The elections in England ought to be a wake-up call to political parties, particularly about the disillusionment many voters feel about our ...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

It's health inequalities stupid!

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Benjamin Franklin famously said that ‘nothing is certain except death and taxes’. Well, it used to be pretty certain that this generation wo...
Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Public Private Partnerships – surely not again!

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I thought I wouldn’t need to write about PPP ever  again . However, as the Chancellor is considering private finance for new infrastructure...
Monday, 27 January 2025

ScotRail: public ownership is not enough

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 The Herald has been running a series of articles on ScotRail since it was taken into partial public ownership as the ‘operator of last res...
Monday, 9 December 2024

Social Murder?: Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK

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Life expectancy has increased in the UK more or less constantly for more than a century. Around 2012, this all stopped, and among poorer pop...
Monday, 18 November 2024

Europe after Trump

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I participated in a European foundation workshop last week, which examined the impact of a Trump presidency on Europe. While European leader...
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Dave Watson
I am a semi-retired trade union policy wonk, now working on a range of projects. I am the Interim Director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, Secretary of the Keir Hardie Society and Secretary of the Socialist Health Association Scotland. Past Chair of the Scottish Labour Party. Graduate in Law from University of Strathclyde. Fellow of the RSA. I have worked in government and in the public sector. I am the author of chapters in several books and a range of publications.
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