Miriam Brett
@miriambrett.bsky.social
Co-Director Future Economy Scotland | Green New Deal Rising board | Common Wealth advisory panel | My own views | she/her
~ Some personal news ~
Our beautiful wee one arrived, so I’ll be on parental leave over the coming months. Looking forward to catching up with folk when I’m back.
In the meantime, the very talented Future Economy Scotland team has an exciting pipeline of work so keep an eye out!
Our beautiful wee one arrived, so I’ll be on parental leave over the coming months. Looking forward to catching up with folk when I’m back.
In the meantime, the very talented Future Economy Scotland team has an exciting pipeline of work so keep an eye out!
October 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
~ Some personal news ~
Our beautiful wee one arrived, so I’ll be on parental leave over the coming months. Looking forward to catching up with folk when I’m back.
In the meantime, the very talented Future Economy Scotland team has an exciting pipeline of work so keep an eye out!
Our beautiful wee one arrived, so I’ll be on parental leave over the coming months. Looking forward to catching up with folk when I’m back.
In the meantime, the very talented Future Economy Scotland team has an exciting pipeline of work so keep an eye out!
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Join us at SNP Conference!
Funding Scotland’s Future: Where Next for the Public Finances?
🗓️ Sunday 12th October
🕘 9:15-10:15am
☕️ Food & refreshments!
With:
@shonarobison.bsky.social MSP
David Phillips @theifs.bsky.social
Sara Cowan @swbg.bsky.social
Chair: FES Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social
Funding Scotland’s Future: Where Next for the Public Finances?
🗓️ Sunday 12th October
🕘 9:15-10:15am
☕️ Food & refreshments!
With:
@shonarobison.bsky.social MSP
David Phillips @theifs.bsky.social
Sara Cowan @swbg.bsky.social
Chair: FES Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Join us at SNP Conference!
Funding Scotland’s Future: Where Next for the Public Finances?
🗓️ Sunday 12th October
🕘 9:15-10:15am
☕️ Food & refreshments!
With:
@shonarobison.bsky.social MSP
David Phillips @theifs.bsky.social
Sara Cowan @swbg.bsky.social
Chair: FES Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social
Funding Scotland’s Future: Where Next for the Public Finances?
🗓️ Sunday 12th October
🕘 9:15-10:15am
☕️ Food & refreshments!
With:
@shonarobison.bsky.social MSP
David Phillips @theifs.bsky.social
Sara Cowan @swbg.bsky.social
Chair: FES Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social
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🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
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Our new report explores Scotland's attempts to attract private finance to meet net zero targets.
We model funding options for peat restoration + find private finance could increase costs for projects by 48%.
We propose a public-led alternative + policy changes to address non-financial barriers.
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We model funding options for peat restoration + find private finance could increase costs for projects by 48%.
We propose a public-led alternative + policy changes to address non-financial barriers.
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🚨 NEW: We’ve been told for years that private finance will fix Scotland’s nature crisis. Our new research shows why it won’t – and sets out a bold public-led alternative.
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
October 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Our new report explores Scotland's attempts to attract private finance to meet net zero targets.
We model funding options for peat restoration + find private finance could increase costs for projects by 48%.
We propose a public-led alternative + policy changes to address non-financial barriers.
👇
We model funding options for peat restoration + find private finance could increase costs for projects by 48%.
We propose a public-led alternative + policy changes to address non-financial barriers.
👇
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Instead of private finance, we need public investment for public goods – plus action on systemic barriers:
📈 Reducing financial uncertainty for landowners
💷 Tax reform
🌱 Fairer land ownership
🦌 Tackling deer numbers
👷♀️ Building skills & housing
www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
📈 Reducing financial uncertainty for landowners
💷 Tax reform
🌱 Fairer land ownership
🦌 Tackling deer numbers
👷♀️ Building skills & housing
www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Instead of private finance, we need public investment for public goods – plus action on systemic barriers:
📈 Reducing financial uncertainty for landowners
💷 Tax reform
🌱 Fairer land ownership
🦌 Tackling deer numbers
👷♀️ Building skills & housing
www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
📈 Reducing financial uncertainty for landowners
💷 Tax reform
🌱 Fairer land ownership
🦌 Tackling deer numbers
👷♀️ Building skills & housing
www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Reposted by Miriam Brett
🚨 NEW: We’ve been told for years that private finance will fix Scotland’s nature crisis. Our new research shows why it won’t – and sets out a bold public-led alternative.
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🚨 NEW: We’ve been told for years that private finance will fix Scotland’s nature crisis. Our new research shows why it won’t – and sets out a bold public-led alternative.
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
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🚨New survey finds oil & gas workers want decisive action from the UK government, Scottish government and industry to support the transition – but they aren’t getting it.
Here’s what workers want: 🧵
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...
Here’s what workers want: 🧵
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...
'North Sea workers urge government to do more on creating good renewable energy jobs'
Rosie Hampton is oil and gas campaigns manager at Friends of the Earth Scotland responds to a new study of over 400 North Sea oil and gas workers…
www.heraldscotland.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🚨New survey finds oil & gas workers want decisive action from the UK government, Scottish government and industry to support the transition – but they aren’t getting it.
Here’s what workers want: 🧵
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...
Here’s what workers want: 🧵
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...
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🏴🇺🇸 NEW: How are Trump’s tariffs impacting Scotland’s economy?
In a new blog, our economist @jujupepe.bsky.social explores the latest data, and finds that Scotland's exports are defying expectations – for now. But significant risks lie ahead.
In a new blog, our economist @jujupepe.bsky.social explores the latest data, and finds that Scotland's exports are defying expectations – for now. But significant risks lie ahead.
How are Trump’s tariffs impacting Scotland’s economy?
Scotland's exports are defying expectations – for now. But significant risks lie ahead.
www.futureeconomy.scot
September 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🏴🇺🇸 NEW: How are Trump’s tariffs impacting Scotland’s economy?
In a new blog, our economist @jujupepe.bsky.social explores the latest data, and finds that Scotland's exports are defying expectations – for now. But significant risks lie ahead.
In a new blog, our economist @jujupepe.bsky.social explores the latest data, and finds that Scotland's exports are defying expectations – for now. But significant risks lie ahead.
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In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
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Asylum support is being widely discussed again, but some figures circulating online are inaccurate. Ferret Fact Service checked a viral post and found it Mostly False.
Here's why: theferret.scot/claim...
Here's why: theferret.scot/claim...
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Asylum support is being widely discussed again, but some figures circulating online are inaccurate. Ferret Fact Service checked a viral post and found it Mostly False.
Here's why: theferret.scot/claim...
Here's why: theferret.scot/claim...
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📢 NEW: Scotland faces a stark choice: act boldly to shape the economy, or be shaped by global forces.
Read our second report with @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on how to rethink the state around a mission-oriented approach: www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Read our second report with @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on how to rethink the state around a mission-oriented approach: www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
September 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
📢 NEW: Scotland faces a stark choice: act boldly to shape the economy, or be shaped by global forces.
Read our second report with @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on how to rethink the state around a mission-oriented approach: www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Read our second report with @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on how to rethink the state around a mission-oriented approach: www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
No doubt Israel is trembling at the thought of political leaders expressing upset at the latest hospital bombing while providing weapons to the very state targeting hospitals as part of an ongoing genocide.
August 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
No doubt Israel is trembling at the thought of political leaders expressing upset at the latest hospital bombing while providing weapons to the very state targeting hospitals as part of an ongoing genocide.
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Next year’s Scottish election must move beyond business-as-usual
Read our new briefing setting out 11 policy priorities for transformative change👇
Read our new briefing setting out 11 policy priorities for transformative change👇
NEW: Scotland is at a crossroads of crises. The 2026 election must be a turning point towards transformative action.
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
August 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Next year’s Scottish election must move beyond business-as-usual
Read our new briefing setting out 11 policy priorities for transformative change👇
Read our new briefing setting out 11 policy priorities for transformative change👇
Reposted by Miriam Brett
NEW: Scotland is at a crossroads of crises. The 2026 election must be a turning point towards transformative action.
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
August 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
NEW: Scotland is at a crossroads of crises. The 2026 election must be a turning point towards transformative action.
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
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Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀
This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...
This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...
Summer 2025 - Bretton Woods Project
This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.
tinyurl.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀
This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...
This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...
“In an increasingly volatile world, small economies like Scotland face a stark choice: either act boldly to shape markets, or be shaped by global market forces.”
Read the latest blog by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social, analysing Alexander Dennis and the erosion of Scotland’s industrial base.
Read the latest blog by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social, analysing Alexander Dennis and the erosion of Scotland’s industrial base.
Missing the bus: Alexander Dennis and Scotland’s industrial decline
How public money helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
www.futureeconomy.scot
July 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“In an increasingly volatile world, small economies like Scotland face a stark choice: either act boldly to shape markets, or be shaped by global market forces.”
Read the latest blog by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social, analysing Alexander Dennis and the erosion of Scotland’s industrial base.
Read the latest blog by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social, analysing Alexander Dennis and the erosion of Scotland’s industrial base.
Reposted by Miriam Brett
While other countries implement bold industrial strategies, Scotland is using taxpayer subsidies to erode our industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
My analysis on the loss of 400 jobs at Alexander Dennis 👇
My analysis on the loss of 400 jobs at Alexander Dennis 👇
NEW: Alexander Dennis’s decision to halt Scottish manufacturing isn’t just a casualty of market forces
It’s a story of how public money has helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
New analysis by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/260-mi...
It’s a story of how public money has helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
New analysis by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/260-mi...
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
While other countries implement bold industrial strategies, Scotland is using taxpayer subsidies to erode our industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
My analysis on the loss of 400 jobs at Alexander Dennis 👇
My analysis on the loss of 400 jobs at Alexander Dennis 👇
Reposted by Miriam Brett
NEW: Alexander Dennis’s decision to halt Scottish manufacturing isn’t just a casualty of market forces
It’s a story of how public money has helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
New analysis by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/260-mi...
It’s a story of how public money has helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
New analysis by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/260-mi...
July 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW: Alexander Dennis’s decision to halt Scottish manufacturing isn’t just a casualty of market forces
It’s a story of how public money has helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
New analysis by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/260-mi...
It’s a story of how public money has helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad
New analysis by @lmacfarlane.bsky.social www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/260-mi...
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🚨 Uplift is hiring a Senior Political Adviser (Scotland)! 🚨
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
💼 Fixed-term, 1 year contract
💰 £49,503 - £54,093
🗓️ Apply by 11pm, Tuesday 30th July
👉 Find out more and apply: cdn.prod.website-files.com/65fb154b5e34...
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
💼 Fixed-term, 1 year contract
💰 £49,503 - £54,093
🗓️ Apply by 11pm, Tuesday 30th July
👉 Find out more and apply: cdn.prod.website-files.com/65fb154b5e34...
cdn.prod.website-files.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨 Uplift is hiring a Senior Political Adviser (Scotland)! 🚨
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
💼 Fixed-term, 1 year contract
💰 £49,503 - £54,093
🗓️ Apply by 11pm, Tuesday 30th July
👉 Find out more and apply: cdn.prod.website-files.com/65fb154b5e34...
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
💼 Fixed-term, 1 year contract
💰 £49,503 - £54,093
🗓️ Apply by 11pm, Tuesday 30th July
👉 Find out more and apply: cdn.prod.website-files.com/65fb154b5e34...
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Foster care in England is now a business model.
Private equity firms are cashing in on vulnerable kids while carers earn less than £1ph.
This is what happens when you turn public care into a market.
📊 @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @sophieflinders.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Private equity firms are cashing in on vulnerable kids while carers earn less than £1ph.
This is what happens when you turn public care into a market.
📊 @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @sophieflinders.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms
Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Foster care in England is now a business model.
Private equity firms are cashing in on vulnerable kids while carers earn less than £1ph.
This is what happens when you turn public care into a market.
📊 @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @sophieflinders.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Private equity firms are cashing in on vulnerable kids while carers earn less than £1ph.
This is what happens when you turn public care into a market.
📊 @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @sophieflinders.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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This Palestinian boy is comforting his younger siblings after they were injured in an Israeli attack that targeted a displacement shelter in Gaza City.
July 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This Palestinian boy is comforting his younger siblings after they were injured in an Israeli attack that targeted a displacement shelter in Gaza City.
As the genocide we’re complicit in rages on, it’s important to remember who the real criminals are: peaceful protesters and a random assortment of musicians.
BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
July 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
As the genocide we’re complicit in rages on, it’s important to remember who the real criminals are: peaceful protesters and a random assortment of musicians.
Reposted by Miriam Brett
MPs will vote on proscribing Palestine Action, alongside violent, far-rights group MMC whose leader has charges for acts of mass violence in US. These two groups are not equivalent to one another, yet MPs will have to vote on the list in full. This is a manipulation of parliamentary process.
Palestine Action ban: when does parliament vote take place?
When MPs will vote on plans to make Palestine Action a terror organisation
On Wednesday MPs will vote on an order to designate the group Palestine Action as a terrorist entity - here's what time it will happen and what it…
www.heraldscotland.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
MPs will vote on proscribing Palestine Action, alongside violent, far-rights group MMC whose leader has charges for acts of mass violence in US. These two groups are not equivalent to one another, yet MPs will have to vote on the list in full. This is a manipulation of parliamentary process.
Reposted by Miriam Brett
🏠 Scotland’s rents have surged by 32 % since May 2020.
This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
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This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🏠 Scotland’s rents have surged by 32 % since May 2020.
This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
🧵
This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
🧵
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Thanks to absurdly generous tax breaks oil & gas developers receive in the UK, the development of the Rosebank oil field could result in a net LOSS of more than £250 million to the Treasury, while developers Equinor & Ithaca walk away with £1.5 billion in profit.
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Treasury 'poised to miss out on £250m in tax receipts from Rosebank oil development'
Campaigners have warned the economic case for approving the Rosebank oil field does not stack up
www.scotsman.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Thanks to absurdly generous tax breaks oil & gas developers receive in the UK, the development of the Rosebank oil field could result in a net LOSS of more than £250 million to the Treasury, while developers Equinor & Ithaca walk away with £1.5 billion in profit.
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