Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.
It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.
If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'
Glasgow is a great city.
I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.
What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.
Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.
Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.
For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.
There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country.
Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.
The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.
It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.
U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.
True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.
Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.
