…you’re better off analysing it yourself. So following my previous post, in which I bemoaned the lack of detailed media coverage of the contents of Glasgow City Council’s budget, I decided that I had better go and check it out myself. Here’s what I found: the Council needed to save a further £8mn in this [...]
It’s been quite a week in Glasgow, from City Chambers drama to alleged bombs in Amarone. No doubt all the detail about the restaurant standoff will emerge in the next few days: but what actually happened at the Council? I don’t mean the arguments, resignations and ill councillors being taxied in to vote. I mean [...]
Today is supposed to be Blue Monday. Not, as you might think, a day when we are all supposed to go around cheerily whistling Joy Division oh God how embarrassing New Order tunes, but actually the most depressing day of the year. It’s the third Monday in January, and A Scientist Somewhere has calculated that [...]