Dear readers, welcome to another Monday. It’s a bit dreich, but we ought not complain. Calum was at his new/old favourite Chinese bakery over the weekend, more on that below. He also sampled the best cheese twists of his life, hit him up for the recipe. Robbie, meanwhile, was at his allotment open day on Saturday. He also had a wee boogie to close out Govanhill festival; joyous. As we go to publication, Beth is visiting a castle in the bosky environs of North Lanarkshire for an upcoming profile. Stay tuned.
Big story: Glasgow finally settles its equal pay dispute
The background: In 2018, 8,000 council workers (from cleaners to carers to cooks), walked off the job in protest of historic pay inequalities at the local authority, which regularly saw women paid up to £3 less per hour than men in comparable positions. To settle the dispute, the council has paid over £770 million to underpaid workers, which it funded by selling some of its estate (including Kelvingrove Gallery and the City Chambers) to City Property and leasing it back in a scheme costing Glasgow £1.5bn. (You can read more about the dispute in Eve Livingston’s excellent report on it from July 2025).
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