We’re just two weeks away from the local council elections.
LAST Thursday marked the final Full Council of the current council term and the last motion to be heard at that meeting focused on women in local government; the barriers which many face to even consider standing and the additional challenges which they are presented with when they eventually are elected including horrific levels of abuse.
THE focus of newly-selected candidates of all parties is rapidly turning to the local government elections which are now just SIX weeks away.
THIS past weekend Labour members from across the country met in Glasgow to attend our Scottish Conference.
THIS time last week councillors across the city were preparing for the biggest annual meeting, the Full Council where we set the budget for the year ahead and this being the final one of the current session.
I HAVE lived in Glasgow my whole life. I truly believe, as I’ve said in past columns, that it is one of the greatest cities in the world, if not the greatest.
IT'S that time of the year again where the Council’s budget process is well under way.
With our own local election just months away I took some time over the Christmas/New Years break to look at the work cities across the world are doing, and to see what we could learn from them. As the lead for the Glasgow Labour Group on all things to do with the environment a focus for me has always been public transport.
We are well and truly in the festive period with just a couple of days until Christmas but for all of us our celebrations will look a little different again this year as we come to terms with the Omicron COVID-19.
Tomorrow we will mark International Human Rights Day - and the end of the annual, international 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. Every year, for the last 30 years, the 16 Days campaign shines a light on how pervasive - and destructive - violence against women and girls is.
