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Thwarting the press barons - at a discount

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By Moya Lothian- McLean, Moya Lothian-McLean Verified
| The Bell (Glasgow) Verified
Dear readers — a story from over the pond that you might have missed: two weeks ago, staff at venerated newspaper The Washington Post, woke up to an email from their owner, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. “I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages,” the note began. That change, Bezos outlined, was about the topics he would allow to be published in the viewpoints section of the outlet, whose official slogan since 2017 has been ‘democracy dies in darkness’.
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The defector: Reform UK's first in-road into Glasgow

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By Moya Lothian- McLean, Moya Lothian-McLean Verified
| The Bell (Glasgow) Verified
Councillor Thomas Kerr is 45 minutes late. I’m waiting for him in Rustico, a charming Italian cafe and gelataria, in the Mount Vernon end of Shettleston, the East End ward Kerr has represented since 2017. The spot was Kerr’s suggestion. When he finally takes a seat opposite me, his apologies are profuse. A chat about his City Chambers office ran over. Later I am told by a reliable source that this meeting concerned a dispute over Kerr’s new digs.
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Who funds us?

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By Moya Lothian- McLean, Moya Lothian-McLean Verified
| The Bell (Glasgow) Verified
“People don’t like information, they like stories”. This is a favoured refrain of our editor, Joshi. And it’s just as well. Because Glasgow loves stories. You’ve got your founding myths, like Saint Mungo and Saint Enoch, or the more recent urban legends like the Gorbals Vampire where Glasgow’s weans fought fog in the Southern Necropolis. There are stories which make us proud, like the Battle of Kenmure Street.
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