Dave Watson
Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Future Energy Scenarios

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Planning the UK's energy future is a difficult task and getting more challenging. A secure, sustainable and affordable energy supply s...
Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Finding a future for wind power

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As the political storm over the UK government's decision to end subsidies for onshore wind power rumbles on, we take a look at wind po...
Wednesday, 8 July 2015

The budget headline is wages, but dig a little deeper....

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The Chancellor's summer UK budget today was long on spin, but the substance was less impressive once you delve into the detail. The he...
Saturday, 4 July 2015

Why the social security system is vital to low paid workers

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As we await the assault on working people in the first Tory budget next week, new data points to better ways of supporting the low paid and...
Friday, 3 July 2015

UK Labour Leadership

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I was at the UNISON Labour Link hustings for the UK Labour Leadership today in Manchester. With our focus on the Scottish leadership electi...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Inflation busting registration fees for health workers

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At a time of pay restraint it is not acceptable for regulators to impose inflation busting fee increases on health and care workers. I wa...
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Thursday, 18 June 2015

Wind farm subsidy - right policy, wrong timing

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The UK government decision to exclude new onshore wind farms from a subsidy scheme a year earlier than planned, is the right energy policy...
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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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