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The problem with Scotland is that it doesn’t know how to sell the greatness it has

SHE jolts millions of radio listeners out of their breakfast stupor with her Thought For The Day broadcasts, answers to the name of Professor and counts the Archbishop of Canterbury among her friends.

But life isn’t all theory, theology and debate for Mona Siddiqui.

Director of Glasgow University’s Centre for the Study of Islam she may be, but the 48-year-old is also mother to three cricket-mad sons.