After 17 long years, the SNP-dominated government is intellectually exhausted and has been artificially propped up by the Greens for too long.

They must now surely support a vote of no confidence & an early election.

Scottish politics badly needs a reset

Finally! I was beginning to think they were an urban myth 🚇

Today is ANZAC Day.

I joined Commonwealth War Graves staff, veterans and service personnel in the Western Necropolis at dawn to remember the ultimate sacrifice of Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the Great War of 1914-1918, and who now forever lie in this corner of Glasgow.

Lest we forget.

With the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility due to open in Glasgow this summer The Ferret visited Mosspark Treatment and Consumption Service in Toronto, Canada. Find out more in our new one-off podcast. Available from Mon, 29 April, subscribe here: theferret.scot/audio-and-podc…

As predicted by Paul Sweeney a vote of no confidence is here...

Your periodic reminder that an extraordinary general election only occurs at Holyrood if a) 2/3 MSPs vote to dissolve the Scottish Parliament or b) the office of First Minister is unfilled after 28 days… 1/2

🚨JUST ANNOUNCED: Labour will create Great British Railways.

Under Labour our railways will be:

✅Publicly owned
✅Passenger focused
✅Fit for the future

Only Labour has a plan to get our trains back on track:

labour.org.uk/get-britain-mo…

The office building of the former Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in the Govan area of Glasgow. Built in 1899, it was designed by Honeyman and Keppie.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgow buildings #govan #buildingsphotography #architecture photography

#PlanningStuff in #Glasgow : The scaffold has now dropped so the ‘B’ listed retained facade for 140-144 Trongate, which dates from 1875, has been revealed once more. You can see the extent of repairs including new stone carving and the reinstated cast iron balustrade…👀👇🥰! 1/2

If you’ve been listening to Macrodose over the last 12 months or so, you’ll be well ahead of the curve on inflation.

The big lurking menace here remains climate change, which will prevent economies stabilising at 2% inflation Mehreen Khan

thetimes.co.uk/article/8a3556…

Garry Spence Glasgow went from a population of 1,127,825 in the 1950s to a low of 577,869 at the start of the 21st century, a decline of 49% from peak to trough.

I mentioned Cumbernauld New Town and was referring to Glasgow Centre for Population Health's research by Chik Collins on excess mortality. theguardian.com/cities/2016/ju…

After 17 long years, the SNP-dominated government is intellectually exhausted and has been artificially propped up by the Greens for too long.

They must now surely support a vote of no confidence & an early election.

Scottish politics badly needs a reset

“Structural poverty... has been self-medicated by consumption of alcohol and other drugs”

Scottish Labour’s Paul Sweeney relates Scotland's high rate of alcohol deaths back to deindustrialisation, that left 'communities completely behind'

#bbcdn bit.ly/3w78Zsf

Scottish Labour has no confidence in Humza Yousaf and the SNP Government.

We need an election now.

The Mondragon Cooperative was inspiration for the Preston, which we’ve also seen with North Ayrshire Labour.

Cooperativism at a municipal level, creates ‘rich societies, not rich people’:
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

🚨BREAKING🚨

Following positive discussions with City Property & supported by MPs, MSPs & Councillors, the lease for the 13th Note *will* be going onto the open market giving the Workers Co-Op a fair chance.

Now to put together a plan for a venue that Glasgow & workers deserve.

An absolute privilege in being able to organise the Commonwealth War Graves ANZAC Day Dawn Service today, which took place at the Glasgow Western Necropolis. Thanks to all who were involved in making today such a success!
Legion Scotland

Paul Sweeney “We’ve had communities completely left behind structurally, which has been self-medicated. We’ve never really got to grips with the sheer scale of that problem.” Paul Sweeney #bbcdn x.com/bbcdebatenight…