The City Chambers Rainbow Flag and Showing Solidarity Even When It’s Inconvenient
Guest Post by Liam Hainey The mass murder which took place in an Orlando gay club has, rightly, shocked the world. While on Sky News a visibly upset Owen Jones was […]
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Fake Goods and Rogue Traders: Authorities Step Up Bid to Demonise The Barras
Efforts to demonise Glasgow’s famous street market, the Barras, have gone into overdrive this week. “Police seize more than £30 million of fake goods in a bid to clean up the Barras” […]
Is Dennistoun’s “Cereal Cafe” a Sign of Creeping Gentrification?
When Glasgow’s primary kids returned after the Easter Holidays a few weeks ago, a treat lay in store for them, courtesy of the city’s Labour councillors. Following the local authority’s March budget cuts, […]
Will The Barras survive regeneration?
“Millions earmarked for Barras regeneration,” goes the stuck record. Beneath the headlines of a £27m package to transform the area around the Barras into a “must-visit” area and an “events […]
Despair in the Square 3: Terror and Tommygeddon at #HopeOverFear
To commemorate a year since the referendum and (we hope) to coincide with International Talk Like a Pirate Day, the Tommy Sheridan Show AKA “Hope over Fear” held their third […]
WEEKLY WANKER #056: FRANK MCAVEETY
When Gordon Matheson resigned yesterday, I felt a tinge of sadness. The man who’s led Glasgow City Council for the last 5 years may have made some horrendous decisions but […]
A Thousand Flowers 