What a difference a week makes… Because they do say that pride comes before a fall. And those two emotions have been very clearly exposed for us in Scotland. Pride came on Eid in Glasgow. Glasgow is the second city of the British Empire, the first being London. Built on the back of success in tobacco and slave trading we have an inglorious past which has been being addressed but we also have a proud tradition; we rebel. With a federal style system of government in the United Kingdom, the British state is responsible for immigration and the Scottish government has devolved powers including responsibility over law and order – ergo the police.