“City leadership is one of the best jobs in politics because you can’t walk away, there are services to provide, the job is constantly problem solving, and keeping the city standing when crisis hits” “In difficult and challenging times, leadership …
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Glasgow: Concrete City
Walk down Bath Street and you will see that the office block that used to house the NHS headquarters in Glasgow is being knocked down. Barely 30 years old, this building is now deemed unsuitable for further use, and is …
What has the Glasgow Against Closures campaign taught us about local democracy?
On Saturday 26 November we ran a session called ‘Glasgow (Re)Governed: A Session on Local and Alternative Democracies’ as part of Glasgow Belongs to Us: A Summit on Ownership and Democracy, organised by the Glasgow Against Closures campaign. Since publishing …
Glasgow (Re)Governed – A Poem to Glasgow City Council
On Saturday 26 November we ran a session called ‘Glasgow (Re)Governed: A Session on Local and Alternative Democracies’ as part of Glasgow Belongs to Us: A Summit on Ownership and Democracy, organised by the Glasgow Against Closures campaign. Since publishing …
Levelling Up, Talking Down
LEVELLING UP, TALKING DOWN: GREENWASHING, GENTRIFICATION AND GATEKEEPING IN GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL’S APPLICATION TO THE LEVELLING UP FUND. Glasgow City Council is submitting seven bids for projects in the city to the UK Government’s flagship ‘Levelling Up’ fund, a competitive …
HAS THE VIRUS WON?
Written by Mike Downham, 6th April 2022, with many thanks to the people who fed back to me about the original version of this piece, which has become a collective contribution to discussions about the pandemic. 1 in 11 people …