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.

Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud. Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.

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.

Mill Media's Liverpool Post has highlighted a "disturbing pattern of behaviour" towards its journalists, including legal threats and social posts, from historian Laurence Westgaph who it has revealed allegations of abuse about www.livpost.co.uk/cutthroats-a...

How is famed food joint Hajar's Shawarma linked to anti-migrant protests in Royston? Eve Livingston investigates how a rumour and a mysterious Facebook account sparked a furore in the Garngad.

Can a new plan rescue the fate of North Laurieston? @calumgrewar.bsky.social is cutting about in the shadow of demolished buildings just south of the Clyde www.glasgowbell.co.uk/laurieston-m...

Bell briefing out now: lessons from a tenement collapse, satirising the BBC Scotland brogue and attacks on police at TRNSMT www.glasgowbell.co.uk/trnsmt-arres...

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

Glasgow’s women made history in the largest ever equal pay strike in 2018. A few months later the council admitted their contracts were discriminatory. But almost seven years on, they’re still waiting for new ones - and for all the money they’re owed. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-coun...

A fortnight ago, people in Royston turned out to protest against news a local building was being turned into an “illegal migrant hotel”. The only problem? It was completely false. So what happened? @everebecca.bsky.social investigates www.glasgowbell.co.uk/royston-far-...

We’re throwing a wee perty this evening and we’d love you to come. There’ll be drinks, snacks from Parveen’s, and a chance to go behind some of our stories from the first nine months. There’s still a few tickets left 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/millm...

Five years ago, Neil nearly lost everything he owned. Now, he’s about to start showing tourists around Glasgow - and he couldn’t be happier www.glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-tou...

It’s our 10th birthday 🎂 Ten years ago, a few of us sat round a kitchen table in Edinburgh, sharing carrot sticks, burnt pizza and a belief that Scotland needed fearless, independent investigative journalism. We called it The Ferret 🧵

Does a healthy democracy = boring food culture? That's the theory @robbiejourno.bsky.social is putting forward today in his food themed writer's edition. Plus: pizza updates and the pressing question of: what's Glasgow's signature drink?

"It’s a drizzly Wednesday morning in Paisley and just off the High Street, a coffin is propped nonchalantly against a statue.". A few weeks ago, the University of West Scotland announced plans to 'find' £6.2m: job cuts. But how did they get here?

🗞️Weekend read: Patrick Harvie made the Greens. Ellie Gomersall wants to unseat him. Glasgow's longest serving Green MSP faces a challenge from one of the most prominent - and youngest - activists in the party. What's her vision?

When home reports were introduced in 2008, they were supposed to add transparency at no extra cost for buyers. Instead, combined with the offers over process, houses in high demand areas are going for way over their valuations.

Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.

Saddened to hear of the death of Glasgow artist, muralist, pub and club designer, and community activist, John Kraska. You can read more about his life and work here: www.forwallswithtongues.org.uk/artists/john...

The surviving elements of the late 1970s Garnethill Mural Project established by the artist John Kraska, who died earlier this week. Cont./ #glasgow #garnethill #johnkraska #urbanregeneration #yardworks #streetart #murals #glasgowmurals #scottishstreetart #glasgowstreetart

The haunted spectres of Glasgow aborted inner ring road. I wrote about the motorway’s (in)famous Bridges to Nowhere. Includes a dalliance on an overpass, playing kickabout with a skull, and a skate park in the most unlikely of places @glasgowbell.bsky.social www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-moto...

"Someone once told me a story about a friend of theirs going on a first date on one of Glasgow’s bridges to nowhere. They hit it off so well that they, err, became well-acquainted with each other, right there on the unfinished pedestrian overpass."

Glasgow is littered with 'roads to nowhere' - unfinished infrastructure that was supposed to be part of a giant ring road strangling the inner city. @robbiejourno.bsky.social examines their myths and meaning in today's read.

Amidst shameful media neglect of genocide in #Gaza, there has been a consistent exception: the UK’s Channel 4 News. Today’s report on the daily killings by Israelis of the starving queuing for food aid. Wait for the UN assessment at the end. This is a difficult but essential watch. Pls share.