Last Saturday, while travelling eastbound on the M8, I notice some weirdness going on in Stanley Street, these days a prime billboard site. Never one to miss a trick, I exit at the Tradeston/Kinning Park off ramp – bizarrely two inner city areas unrecognised by the city’s local newspaper, the Evening Times.

Moments later I discover that the Gray Dunn Biscuit Factory, a place that looms large in my memory, is being demolished. Incompetently and dangerously. The reporting of this,…