Glasgow is a city in crisis once more. The immediate post-war decades brought little beyond six-lane motorways and the comprehensive redevelopment of vast tracts of the city, and yet enough survived to be appreciated in the ’80s and ’90s, when Glasgow was much restored and celebrated once more as one of our great, vibrant, regional British cities – it was a very real urban renaissance.

But those days are over. The city centre is filthy, footfall is down, visitor numbers have plunged and, having presided over this decline, the City Council – who have contributed so much to the malaise – have simply no ideas as to how to reverse the process.

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