Robin McAlpine


Robin Lindsay McAlpine is the Director of the Common Weal think tank. He has previously worked as a journalist, and was the first director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation.

Biography

McAlpine is the son of former Labour Party and Scottish National Party Councillor Tom McAlpine and the sociologist and activist Isobel Lindsay.
McAlpine previously worked as a political researcher for Labour MP George Robertson. He also worked as a journalist, and was Deputy Director of Universities Scotland. He later became Director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation.

Common Weal

McAlpine first began to develop on economic philosophy based around the idea of a 'common weal' at the Jimmy Reid Foundation, before leaving in 2014 to set up the Common Weal project as a think tank in its own right.
In 2016 McAlpine published 'Determination: How Scotland can become independent by 2021'.

Books

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