The Guardian reported that Douglas Barrowman's wife lobbied for PPE contracts for two companies controlled by him. But Barrowman's name isn't on their Companies House entries. Here's my legal analysis of whether that's a criminal offence by Barrowman: taxpolicy.org.uk/ppe/

#WhereIsMichelle Sky News report.... news.sky.com/story/christma…

Happy New Year from the team at Scotland's Towns Partnership 🥂

Hey Steve Barclay, I’m a doctor. Today I was the only surgical assistant for two curative mastectomies, and got home three hours after my shift finished so a third lady’s cancer curing surgery didn’t have to be postponed. I brought home <£80 post tax. Should I be working harder?

MICHELLE MONE Husband to be in Spanish court accused of "approving payment of £5.5m payment from Spanish company to UK Axis V for NO SERVICES Cash paid & transferred days later to “someone unknown” but to his benefit" Company went bust Hundreds lost jobs dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…

Boris Johnson put £4,445 dinner in New York on government credit card - The Mirror apple.news/ANs0ZSKb0S9KMz…

CORRUPT CHANCELLOR? NADHIM ZAHAWI NEWS After discovery of his tax avoidance structure Nadhim Zahawi agrees to pay several million in back tax, thanks imho to the work of @danneidle (Dan is the Robin Hood of tax lawyers) who'd been threatened by Z's lawyers thesun.co.uk/news/21046397/…

ZAHAWI You all supported this tweet 2 wks ago saying more news coming, & it came Dan Neidle I strongly believe that we can bring down the corrupt. If you believe too, then it will happen. Don't say 'they always get away with it' because then they will. Let's fight this together?

Nadhim Zahawi has agreed to pay the £3,000,000 tax bill he lied about and hid from HMRC. He should be sent to jail for fraud. RT if you want to see him in jail.

Join us this Saturday for a conversation around Who owns urban Scotland? and its impact, followed by our annual AGM. Members and non-members welcome. 📍 10:00 – 12:30, Grassmarket Community Project, Edinburgh Get your (free!) tickets now 👉 bit.ly/3ZbBlLe

Our CPG Towns and Town Centres meeting is underway with a focus on 'People Power - Strong Leadership, Strong Towns' 👏 Looking forward to hearing contributions from Siobhian Brown MSP Philip Prentice PossilparkBid Midsteeple Quarter and ACDI this afternoon 🙌

Congratulations to all those announced today as new Fellows of the RSE On a personal level I am delighted and humbled to receive such an honour University of Stirling Stir Man School Inst. Retail Studies Scotland's Towns Christ's College

Scotland Loves Local Gift Cards are going digital! Scottish Government are investing £250,000 to enable the cards to operate on devices such as mobile phones 📲 Visiting Barrhead yesterday, Tom Arthur said: 'Going digital is an important step forward for the SLL gift card', (1/2)

Community Wealth Minister Tom Arthur visited Social Blend in Barrhead Include Me 2 Club to discuss the digitalisation of the #ScotlandLovesLocal Gift card 📲 Shoppers can currently spend their SLL East Renfrewshire gift cards in the cafe & support their great work 🔽 Scottish Government

ICYMI: We recently worked with Scottish Grocers Federation to examine again the cost of employment to businesses and especially local convenience stores. Details: stirlingretail.com/2023/04/14/the… University of Stirling Pete Cheema Inst. Retail Studies Maria Ryba...

ICYMI: My overheads and thoughts from my presentation at the IPM Conference y'day stirlingretail.com/2023/04/20/tow… University of Stirling Scotland's Towns @HighStreetsTF Why are so many of our solutions weak and unambitious leaving great local work having to fight against the system?

ICYMI: Announcement of the publication in June of the Routledge handbook on Urban Logistics, in which I have a chapter on Urban Logistics and Retailing Details of my chapter and the book's content here: stirlingretail.com/2023/05/16/urb…

As part of #ScotlandLovesLocal, Scotland's Towns Partnership is asking businesses why it's so important to them that people make the decision to #ChooseLocal. Please share some of your thoughts (survey closes midnight on Friday May 19th). Link below. surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SLLsurvey2023

Businesses and organisations across the Scottish Borders are being urged to take part in the first Scotland Loves Local week 👇 ITVX itv.com/news/border/20…

First Minister visits BID4Oban and the Rockfield Centre and which is a national place based demonstration project support delivering on town centre first and community wealth Scotland's Towns Scotland's Improvement Districts #Bid4Oban #Rockfield