Glasgow was once the second city of the empire. It built a fifth of the world's ships. It had its own stock exchange and a subway before most of the world had electric light at home. It was meant to be the London of the north! Then we spent 50 years shrinking it. But the bones are all still there: the Victorian centre, the river, the subway, the universities, and a million and a half people within half an hour. Most cities would kill for that. Glasgow just needs someone to treat it like a capital again instead of a back office. And it pains me as an Edinburgh lad to say it.