Why is a former hardcore DJ at war with a west end seafood restaurant? Nicky Modlin is a DJ turned property developer, turned actor. He's now very into biohacking - and righting the injustice of having been barred from Crabshakk Botantics.

The Japanese ambassador is in town! @robbiejourno.bsky.social made some predictions about the visit in his writer's edition. "I am lowkey dreading the inevitable: Suzuki downing a pint of Tennents & saying something cringe like “giein it laldy”. Two hours later:

A dh'aindeoin a' chinn-naidheachd, seo pìos sa mhòr-chuid deimhinneach. (Is fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste, m.s.a.a.)

Tha seo glè inntinneach

🧵In 1988, the six pupils in Glasgow became the first cohort to be taught entirely in Gaelic. Their English-speaking classmates, nicknamed it the ‘Garlic Unit’. It didn’t matter though; the six pupils were pioneers.

Gaelic education has been a huge success in Glasgow, but some worry the culture is being watered down www.glasgowbell.co.uk/gaelic-mediu...

🚨 BREAKING: The CCA is "No longer able to continue operating and is entering liquidation." Tomorrow we're publishing the inside story of how it all went wrong for the arts organisation - read our first report and sign up below 👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-liquidat...

Briefing out now 🇵🇸 Exclusive: council removes Palestine flags 🔥 Yet another mystery fire 👮‍♂️ A death in police custody www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...

Gas ovens, inferior flour and culinary shortcuts - is this proof that Glasgow’s favourite pizza really is getting worse? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/paesano-pizz...

These are our six campaign pledges - the things we will do next year if we manage to add 1,000 new members. They were chosen by our readers because they’re things we believe will make Manchester better. Share them and join the campaign 🙏 manchestermill.co.uk

In today's news briefing: 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who's behind a campaign to bring down the Palestine Saltires? 🏚️ Long-awaited good news for displaced Albert Drive residents 🥃 Does Glasgow need a whisky quarter?

This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...

This week's briefing features: 🚌 Spinning wheels and bus fires 😠 Sauchiehall Street takes a Brillo bashing 🎨 The Glasgow Style revisited 💩 A jobby geyser sh*temare www.glasgowbell.co.uk/easdales-mcg...

The M8 separated two childhood best friends, but it couldn't keep them apart forever. This is the story of how Robin and Brian rekindled their friendship, fifty years on. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/m8-motorway-...

Today's briefing: 🏨 Victoria Infirmary flats, ready or not? 🌳 The green investors moving into the Lighthouse 🤑 Mone money Mone problems 🍷 West End wine bar reviewed www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...

Monday briefing out now. Featuring: 🥬 The inside scoop on Your Party’s Green defectors 🔫 Gang wars latest 🎤 James English in the New Yorker 🌶️ Glasgow’s top dosa 🚲 Cycling charity on the brink www.glasgowbell.co.uk/why-did-the-...

Is Govan Glasgow’s secret economic powerhouse? An exploration of the past, present and future southwest of the Clyde www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-econom...

This week’s Bell briefing is out! Featuring: 📻 More drama at BBC Scotland 💊 Scotland’s first drug-testing spot 🇵🇸 Flag wars continue to rage 🍽️ Corner Shop review 🚢 Historic ship sunk www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-this-the-...

Fourwalls co-operative has been in Woodlands for nearly 40 years. But now, a giant landlord and a new male resident threaten to change the feminist co-living sanctuary forever. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/feminist-coo...

This week’s Bell briefing is out! Featuring: 🚩 A new player in Glasgow’s flag wars 👙 The fall of Michelle Mone 🤼 A new wrestling promoter enters the ring 🇮🇪 The academic and the undercover IRA agent 🥙 The unstoppable rise of Shawarma King www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...

TikTok embezzlers, outlaw leaders and a five year Scottish Canals dispute: welcome to the wild west of magnet fishing in Glasgow’s waterways [ @robbiejourno.bsky.social @glasgowbell.bsky.social ] www.glasgowbell.co.uk/magnet-fishi...

But in recent months one of the city’s long-standing jokes has turned much more sinister. After 30 years as a Dundas Street institution, is Best Kebab’s relationship with Glasgow’s citizens turning toxic? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

Fantastic piece on a takeaway I knew well during my first four years in Glasgow.

Ah Best Kebab, what a peculiar place; a sarbeni used to be a student loan payday treat after a night out. It was always fairly ropey, but what’s been happening recently is a shame - as reported by @robbiejourno.bsky.social www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Is Glasgow’s most notorious takeaway on the brink - and what’s TikTok got to do with it? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

Meet the plucky paper picking a fight with the establishment @theglasgowguardian.bsky.social www.glasgowbell.co.uk/hillhead-rev...

'Gas them all' 'Time to look after our own not everyone else' We can now unmask one of the men behind north Glasgow's saltires and his violent anti-migrant posts. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tartan-team-...

Read all about it in our Monday Briefing. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/saltire-rais...

You may have seen saltires flying from lampposts across north Glasgow lately. Well, we've found out that one of the members of the team behind it is a Nazi-sympathiser.

I wrote about this for the @glasgowbell.bsky.social last year... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/a-blueprint-... Here's what the rail network in central Glasgow needs to look something like by 2040:

Read all of our Monday briefing for free, here 👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/gaza-student...

🇵🇸 The story of one young scholar’s plight to get from Gaza to Glasgow for his studies. 🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on? 🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Thinking of ace Glasgow cartoonist, Bud Neill, who died on this day, in 1970, aged only 59.

"These are the days you get out of bed for”, says Dr Willie Yeomans... It’s a chilly August morning but it’s dry; in front of us, dozens of tiny salmon are flopping around in large buckets of water.

Is this Glasgow’s — nay the world’s — most prolific curry critic? Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city. Here are his favourites.

Have Glasgow’s ‘worst’ event promoters struck again? It's hard it is to run an independent music festival in this economy. But, as another festival is cancelled last minute, is there a pattern? Plus, the Star Bar gets a facelift, and a fact-check on Glasgow’s asylum stats.

St Paul’s Parish Church started the youth forum in 1994 to give young people in Blackhill a safe place to hang out and keep them off the streets. Since 2006, their co-ordinated efforts have seen gang-related violence in the area drop by 97%.

“Braid delights in slowly trapping the men with their own words, steadily tightening his grip as he reveals each grim detail and piece of evidence.” So why did Braid throw a successful career away to become a vigilante? @robbiejourno.bsky.social is on the case www.glasgowbell.co.uk/paedophile-h...

Why has the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society not acted on a report detailing which fire suppression system could best protect Toshie's only church - which is filled with original timber furniture? Read full article below

Also in today's Glasgow in Brief - exclusively for newsletter subscribers: are Police Scotland the UK only force to be pressing charges under the Terrorism Act, for support of Palestine Action? Five people have been charged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Bell has learned.

If God does exist, it’s impossible to imagine why he would smite a man like softly-spoken musician, Pete MacDonald. Yet, over the past five years, MacDonald has faced fire, the demolition of his home & hundreds of thousands in unexpected costs.

Being a member of the Union Bears and Green Brigade is about rivalry and conflict – but it’s also one of the few spaces where young men feel part of a community. Danny Macpherson’s essay on ultras culture in Glasgow👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/how-glasgow-...

80 years on from his trial, the ghost of Pétain haunts France to this day. In fact, it's key to understanding the resurgent far-right in France today, as Allan Little explores in tomorrow's episode of Archive on 4. Produced by yours truly 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thin-skinned, aye. But billionaire, I wouldn't be so certain, Ross ... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-easdale-...

🗞️ In our Monday briefing today: ✍️As a veteran activist is arrested, we're asking: is Glasgow's media self-censoring over Palestine? 📸 Plus: the city's top documenter of demolitions gives a New Glasgow Society lecture on Weds 23 July Read below.

Powerful words, and powerful New Statesman article, by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpton, on the horrors being administered in Gaza.

Glasgow’s nightlife is in the “worst state it has been in since 1979”. That’s according to the man behind one of Scotland’s biggest gig promoters, PCL Presents. He also owns Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh, and Broadcast.