Martin Williams
Investigations Editor at openDemocracy
Investigative journalist. Recently: Investigations Editor @openDemocracy. Previously @Channel4News @guardian. Author, 'Parliament Ltd'. mrw504(AT)gmail(DOT)com
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Mar 3, 2025 |
glasgowtimes.co.uk | Martin Williams
A group of residents are looking to block one of Scotland's biggest demolition jobs after being offered an "insulting" £100 in Tesco vouchers to evacuate. One group of at least four households, who are among the nearest to the four 26-storey towers at Wyndford in the Maryhill area of Glasgow fear not enough is being done to protect their homes and health. And the group leader says they won't budge from their homes until the dispute has been resolved.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
archive.is | Martin Williams
The council's debt soared by £105m since before the pandemic and stood at £1.604bn in 2023/24 - almost entirely equal to the money it is expected to take in to fund services for 2025/26. And the debt financing costs, the vast bulk of which is interest payments on loans in the five years from the pre-pandemic year of 2019/20 amounts to £527.644m - enough to provide over 2500 settled affordable homes for the homeless who are left to live in temporary accommodation in the city's housing emergency.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
hepi.ac.uk | Martin Williams
Martin Williams is Chair of the University of Cumbria and a former higher education policy official in the Department for Education. It was interesting to read Jo Johnson’s 28 January HEPI blog about the OfS’s suspension of new applications to the Register and for Degree Awarding Powers (The Office for Students needs to walk and chew gum, by Jo Johnson). The OfS, apparently, is ‘failing to support the innovation vital to our success as a knowledge economy’.
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Feb 24, 2025 |
glasgowtimes.co.uk | Martin Williams
Explained: How the city of Glasgow is funded Glasgow City Council has seen the vital money given by the Scottish Government to fund local services rise by over 8.75% in real terms since the Covid pandemic. Like other local authorities in Scotland, Glasgow gets its funding from multiple sources to finance the wide array of public services it provides, including education, social care, waste management, and infrastructure maintenance.
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Feb 24, 2025 |
glasgowtimes.co.uk | Martin Williams
Glasgow's debt burden has soared to more than £1.6 billion - while it has so far overspent its budgets to the tune of £80 million over the past three years, The Glasgow Times can reveal. Concerns about how the city manages services has been raised while its own assessment accepts there is a very high risk financial issues will affect essential services and hit schooling.
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