Glasgow’s Burgh Angel is a great wee example of what the future of media could look like. Based in Maryhill, with an ultra-local but not parochial focus it’s distributed free in places like chips shops and pubs, widely read and respected and with no-bullshit working class community politics at its core. They have no truck with being trampled over by an unrepresentative council with a development agenda that doesn’t include them.

They do vital work giving their community a voice, free of commercial and party-political interference, and they’ve just launched an appeal for funds: for sympathetic folks to set up a standing order using this form.