I have the mixed privilege of being born and raised in Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow. Mixed, I say, because of its present as well as its past. Once a bustling centre of tobacco trade and ship building, it also exported human talent as its sons and daughters departed its urban throng for America and settled into fruitful and influential lifestyles that today leaves the USA with six towns bearing the same name. But the glory has also departed and Glasgow is now a city that bears the scars of an economic landscape under the 75-year cosh of socialist economic policy … Continue reading Demolition Job