Robin McAlpine
Robin Lindsay McAlpine (born December 1972) is a Scottish campaigner who was the Director of the Common Weal think tank from 2014 to 2021. He has previously worked as a journalist, and was the first director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation. McAlpine previously worked as a political researcher for Labour MP George Robertson.{{cite web |title=Crash ended player's career |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12013982.Crash_ended_player_apos_s_career_Careless_driver_fined__850/ |access-date=15 January 2018 |website=The Herald}} He also worked as a journalist, and was Deputy Director of Universities Scotland.{{cite web |title=COMMON WEAL TEAM |url=http://www.allofusfirst.org/what-is-common-weal/common-weal-team/ |access-date=15 January 2018 |website=Common Weal}}{{Cite journal |last=McAlpine |first=Robin |last2=Murray |first2=Craig |last3=Pollock |first3=Allyson |last4=Ramsay |first4=Adam |date=2013 |title=The Democratic University: A proposal for university governance for the Common Weal |url=http://www.allofusfirst.org/tasks/render/file/?fileID=42FBB74B-BEA7-47F3-958BE0B8B3BF43B2 |journal=The Jimmy Reid Foundation}} He later became Director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation.{{cite news |date=26 October 2013 |title=Grangemouth: Jimmy Reid Foundation director Robin McAlpine reflects on a huge week for Scottish industry |language=en |website=Daily Record |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/grangemouth-jimmy-reid-foundation-director-2640664 |access-date=20 January 2021}}
McAlpine is the son of former Labour Party and Scottish National Party Councillor Tom McAlpine and the sociologist and activist Isobel Lindsay.{{cite web|title=Tom McAlpine - an appreciation|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/tom-mcalpine-an-appreciation-1-1107887|website=The Scotsman|access-date=15 January 2018}}
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.{{cite web|last1=McAlpine|first1=Robin|title=Work for the Common Weal|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/robin-mcalpine-work-for-the-common-weal-1-2976899|website=The Scotsman|access-date=15 January 2018}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13173037.Common_Weal_splits_from_Jimmy_Reid_Foundation/|title=Common Weal splits from Jimmy Reid Foundation|date=3 August 2014|work=The Herald|access-date=13 January 2018}}
In 2016 McAlpine published Determination: How Scotland Can Become Independent by 2021.{{Cite book|title=Determination: How Scotland Can Become Independent by 2021|last=McAlpine|first=Robin|publisher=Common Print|year=2016|isbn=978-0-9930965-4-9}} In January 2021, he asked to step down as Director of Common Weal for the role of Head of Strategic Development after receiving backlash for a highly critical article he wrote about Nicola Sturgeon in connection with the ongoing row with Alex Salmond.{{cite web|last=Nutt|first=Kathleen|date=14 January 2021|title=Robin McAlpine quits as Common Weal chief after angry article|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/19024793.robin-mcalpine-quits-common-weal-chief-angry-article/|access-date=20 January 2021|website=The National|language=en-GB}}
Bibliography
= Books =
- {{cite book | last = McAlpine | first =Robin | title = Determination: How Scotland can become independent by 2021 | publisher = Common Print | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-0-9930965-4-9 }}
= Papers =
- {{Cite journal|last=McAlpine|first=Robin|last2=Danson|first2=Mike|last3=Spicker|first3=Paul|last4=Sullivan|first4=Willie|date=2012|title=The Case for Universalism An assessment of the evidence on the effectiveness and efficiency of the universal welfare state|url=http://www.allofusfirst.org/tasks/render/file/?fileID=624B57AB-2FFC-468C-82859A89DFA52494|journal=The Jimmy Reid Foundation}}
- {{Cite journal|last=McAlpine|first=Robin|last2=Bort|first2=Eberhard|last3=Morgan|first3=Gordon|date=2012|title=The Silent Crisis: Failure and Revival in Local Democracy in Scotland|url=http://www.allofusfirst.org/tasks/render/file/?fileID=AB81B0BF-6634-45BF-A46DB6824E11A2F9|journal=The Jimmy Reid Foundation}}
- {{Cite journal|last=McAlpine|first=Robin|last2=Murray|first2=Craig|last3=Pollock|first3=Allyson|last4=Ramsay|first4=Adam|date=2013|title=The Democratic University: A proposal for university governance for the Common Weal|url=http://www.allofusfirst.org/tasks/render/file/?fileID=42FBB74B-BEA7-47F3-958BE0B8B3BF43B2|journal=The Jimmy Reid Foundation}}